LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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Medieval
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Romantic
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Victorian
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Elizabethan
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Detailed explanation-1: -The drama of the Middle Ages began as mimetic representations of religious history, in which clerics and subsequently laymen enacted the events of Holy Scripture, God’s dealings with His people in the Old and New Testaments.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ans-The four periods of history of English drama are Emergence, English Renaissance, Interregnum and Victorian Era.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first English tragedy, Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, is a chain of slaughter and revenge written in direct imitation of Seneca.
Detailed explanation-4: -The origin of the drama is deep-rooted in the religious predispositions of mankind. Same is the case not only with English drama, but with dramas of other nations as well. The ancient Greek and Roman dramas were mostly concerned with religious ceremonials of people.