ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -T.S. Eliot was the main dramatist who gave importance to poetic plays and was the realistic prose drama of the modern drama.

Detailed explanation-2: -William Shakespeare, English poet, dramatist, and actor often called the English national poet and considered by many to be the greatest dramatist of all time.

Detailed explanation-3: -George Bernard Shaw is famous for his role in revolutionizing comedic drama. He was also a literary critic and a prominent British socialist. Shaw’s most financially successful work, Pygmalion, was adapted into the popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

Detailed explanation-4: -G.B. Shaw as a Dramatist The ideas he used for writing his plays were genuine, important and ingenious. Shaw’s comedies present a fearless intellectual criticism of his age. But he made it as a sugar-coated pill by a pretended lightness of tone. Shaw’s primary aim in his dramas was bettering of the lot of humanity.