(1200-1500) I. Changing Conditions after 1200 The linguistic situation described in the previous chapter did not continue because the conditions under which it arose changed. Shortly after 1200 England lost an important part of its possessions in Europe. The English nobility gradually relinquished their estates in the continent. Rivalry developed between England and France, accompanied …
Piecing together the religion and philosophy of a poet is often a thankless task. So fluid and flexible are they, so entirely at the service of the poetic event, that the effort to reconstruct them may spoil the poetry while leaving unsatisfied the thirst for intellectual coherence. Yet the power of Shelley’s verse depends on …
Christopher Marlowe’s play, its genre an English tragedy of the sixteenth century, presents the tragic conflict of the Faustus theme in the tradition of medieval morality plays. There are two kind of conflict in the play: one between rival views of nature of evil and the other between the choice of good and the choice …
Comedy of Menace Absurdism: doctrine that we live in an irrational universe The term “comedy of menace” comes from the subtitle of one of David Campton’s plays, The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace. A reviewer picked up on it and used it when writing about certain playwrights. Comedy A ‘comedy’ is a humorous play …
Factors Involved in the investigation of Social Dialect Social Class And Education: Leaving Educational system at early age e.g. ( Them boys throwed somethin) Spending long time in educational system e.g. (Talks like a book) Labov’s Theory: Study of Labov (1972), looking sales people pronunciation differences in New York city at Saks, Macy’s and Klein’s …