FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DRFAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
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Allegory
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Epic
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Sonnet
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Ballad
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Detailed explanation-1: -Astrophel and Stella, an Elizabethan sonnet sequence of 108 sonnets, interspersed with 11 songs, by Sir Philip Sidney, written in 1582 and published posthumously in 1591. The work is often considered the finest Elizabethan sonnet cycle after William Shakespeare’s sonnets.
Detailed explanation-2: -Astrophil and Stella is a sequence of sonnets and songs written by Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586). It tells the story of Astrophil (or Astrophel), whose name means star-lover, and his hopeless passion for Stella, whose name means star.
Detailed explanation-3: -Astrophil and Stella is an innovative take on the Petrarchan sonnet sequence, and it inaugurated a craze for sequences that culminated in the crowning glory of Renaissance poetry: Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
Detailed explanation-4: -The meter of Astrophil and Stella is a usual six-foot line (twelve syllables). The rhyme scheme can be represented as ABAB ABAB CDCD EE. Sir Philip Sidney alters his rhyme schemes freely throughout the poem. This particular rhyme scheme “reinforces the notion of tedious but fruitless study” (McMenomy, 1998).
Detailed explanation-5: -LANGUAGE AND STRUCTURE: Sidney’s poems in Astrophil and Stella can be categorized primarily as English sonnets.