ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

AGES ERA PERIOD

ROMANTIC PERIOD

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following plays was actually performed on stage?
A
Byron’s Manfred
B
Coleridge’s Remorse
C
Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound
D
Shelley’s The Cenci
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Osorio is a tragedy in blank verse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It was written in 1797 but was unperformed following its rejection by Drury Lane Theatre. Coleridge revised and recast the play sixteen years later, giving it the new title of Remorse.

Detailed explanation-2: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Romantic poets also used specific poetic forms: odes, lyrical ballads, and sonnets were popular among the Romantics.

Detailed explanation-4: -Jane Austen, committed like Wordsworth to finding the extraordinary in the everyday, developed a new novelistic language for the mind in flux.

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