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Archive for the ‘Poetry, Drama & Criticism’ Category
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
Beowulf (Poetry) [Audiobook] [Classical] (Audio CD)
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 AD, “Beowulf” tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorizes the Scyldings of Hrothgar’s Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As a result, he has to face her enraged mother. Beowulf dies after a battle against a fierce dragon.
Photographic Print of Oliver Goldsmith s play from Lebrecht Music a Arts Photo Library
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
10×8 Photograph (25x20cm). Oliver Goldsmith s play – She Stoops to Conquer or The Mistakes of a Night. Act 1, Scene 1 – My dear papa, say no more.First performed in London in 1773. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1912. OG Anglo-Irish writer, playwright, poet, physician 10 November 1730 or 1728 – 4 April 1774.
Divine Poetry and Drama in Sixteenth-Century England (Paperback)
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
The Reformation and the impact of the Renaissance were almost simultaneous in England. So the English versions of the Bible appeared at much the same time as the new, worldly forms of verse and drama. It was not long before serious-minded poets and playwrights used the Bible thus made available for new forms of religious verse. There was an important but neglected succession of writers who did this, culminating in Milton. The forms involved include the sonnet, the miniature epic and the popular drama. Miss Campbell treats both dramatic and non-dramatic literature. She shows that both kinds were new and not prolongations of medieval forms: the ‘divine’ lyric is a counterpart of the new secular lyric, and professedly host (more…)
