Classic to Modern English Literature

Comedy of Manners, or Anti-Sentimental Comedy, is a realistic genre, shows Fop and Rake of Restoration Period. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar wilde is important one of the plays. Manander's style is included in this as New Comedy (325-260 BC). In the the seventeenth, Greatest playwright, Moliere's plays are included The School for Wives (1662), The Imposter (1664), and The Misanthrope (1666). Its didactic example is Horace's Satire 1.9. In the English literature, Much ado About Nothing is most important comedy of manners by Shakespeare. 

"Sonnet 106" called as "When in the Chronicle of Wasted time" written by the greatest English poet and the "bard of avon", William Shakespeare. The poem was first published in 1609 in a quarto. This sonnet is part of the Fair Youth sequence, a series of poems that are addressed to an unknown young man. The sonnet goes on to explore the idea that the poet's verses can defy the passage of time and preserve the beauty and love of the subject for all eternity. It's a reflection on the enduring power of poetry. Shakespeare's sonnet contains fourteen lines with Iambic Pentameter. In the first, second and third quatrain, the poem follows ABAB CDCD EFEF, and the final rhyming couplet shows GG rhyme-scheme. The poem five syllables, because it has ten feet. It also shows "Love and Loss", "Power and Corruption", "Life and Death", and "Freedom and Oppression."  Shakespeare's sonnets were granted by Thomas Thrope

From his 154 sonnets, William Shakespeare wrote, "As an unperfect actor on the stage" also known as "Sonnet 23". The Renaissance poetry was published in 1609 by an English publisher, Thomas Thrope. While coursing the poem, the narrator compares himself to an imperfect actor on a stage who forgets his lines. He laments his inability to adequately express his love for the beloved through poetry. He feels that like an actor, he struggles to perform convincingly. Contextually, the poem includes, "love, time, beauty, and the passage of life." American literary critic, Helen Hennessy Vendler writes that in sonnet 23, "the (inevitable) distance between composing author and fictive speaker narrows to the vanishing point."  Shakespeare 's sonnetic poem "As an unperfect actor on the stage" contains fourteen lines with Iambic Pentameter. It implies ABAB CDCD EFEF GG rhyme-scheme. The poem has three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. This

William Shakespeare, the greatest English playwright, wrote "The Tragedy of Hamlet" in the early 17th century. This five-act tragedy, commonly known as "Hamlet," was first performed around 1600. It centers on a young Danish prince who seeks to avenge his father's death. The ghost of Hamlet's father appears to him, revealing that he was murdered by Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. Claudius then married Hamlet's mother and claimed the throne. Written between 1599 and 1601, "Hamlet" was published in a quarto edition in 1603 and is widely regarded as one of the most influential literary works ever written. Although "Hamlet" is a fictional story, it was inspired by real oral accounts of Danish history. The story of Amleth, the last King of Jutland, can be found in the writings of Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus. Prince Hamlet's character was derived from several sources, notably Books III and IV of Saxo Grammaticus’s 12th-century "

A Midsummer Night's Dream is set in Athens and revolves around the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, and Hippolyta, the former queen of the Amazons. The comedy was written by William Shakespeare in 1595 or 1596. The title suggests an atmosphere of fantasy, whimsy, and imagination. In an interesting, the word “dream” only appears 14 times throughout the play and the only variation of it, “dreams,” appears just twice. It was first performed between 1595 and 1596. The play was written to celebrate the wedding of Elizabeth Carey. It expresses, "gender and power", "appearance and reality", "order and disorder", "dream and consciousness." Thomas Fisher published the first quarto edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1600. He entered the play into the Register of the Stationers' Company on October 8, 1600. On the other hand, Arthur Rackham illustrated a limited edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1939. The play belongs to th

William Shakespeare's historical tragedy "Antony and Cleopatra" was written in 1606–07 and first performed around 1607. It was published in 1623 in the First Folio, under the title, "The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra." The play is about the love affair between Mark Antony, a Roman military leader and triumvir, and Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt. Antony is needed in Rome, but he lingers in Egypt with Cleopatra. The play is set in the entire Roman Empire and is based on the well-documented history of Mark Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavius Caesar. The play was first performed by the King's Men at either the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre. The plot is based on Thomas North's 1579 English translation of Plutarch's Lives (in Ancient Greek) and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the War of Actium. It is difficult to classify Antony and Cleopatra as be

  Shakespeare's sexuality, religious beliefs, and even some fringe theories about the authorship of his works have sparked considerable debate. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613   . His early plays, primarily comedies and histories, are regarded as some of the best in these genres. From then until 1608 , he mainly wrote tragedies, including * Romeo and Juliet*, *Hamlet*, *Othello*, *King Lear*, and *Macbeth *, all of which are considered some of the finest works in the English language   . In the later phase of his career, he turned to tragicomedies, also known as romances, such as * The Winter's Tale * and * The Tempest *, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623 , John Heminges and Henry Condell , two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare , published the First Folio , a more definitive posthumous collection o