ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Christopher Marlowe was William Shakespeare’s senior by two months. One of the most striking figures of the English Renaissance and the true founder of the popular English drama, hence the father of English tragedy. Marlowe wrote four great tragedies and became a forerunner of Shakespeare.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the father of modern English Literature. It is not just his popularity and influence on modern writers that allows for this title to be attributed to him but because of the massive contributions he made to the development of the English language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare is called the father of English drama because the template provided by his plays became the one that seeped into all subsequent forms more than anything before it.

Detailed explanation-4: -English Drama in India was started by Krishna Mohan Banerji with his work The Persecuted (1837). It was a social play dealing with the conflicts between East and West. The real beginning of the English Drama in India was with Is This Called Civilization by Michael Madhu Sudan Dutt in 1871.

Detailed explanation-5: -Shakespeare was a prolific writer during the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages of British theatre (sometimes called the English Renaissance or the Early Modern Period). Shakespeare’s plays are perhaps his most enduring legacy, but they are not all he wrote. Shakespeare’s poems also remain popular to this day.