Points to ponder upon Elizabethan Age:
Introduction:
This age is recognized by three names.
1. Elizabethon age
2. Shakespearean age
3. Renaissance
Elizabeth period is set to be one of the most important period in the history of English literature. This is known as the golden period, because some really amazing writer ,some prominent writers who born in this period and they started writing in this period. Elizabeth and period started in the 1558 and it continued till 1603. During this period a lot of important socio , economic changes happened in England.
A lot of good changes who were happening in across England during this period and one most of important change is the Renaissance. So this was a period when Renaissance came in England.
Renaissance was a movement that started in Italy but during the Elizabethan lperiod it's started having an impact on England itself so that is the reason why the period is known as a period and some people so called it as the English Renaissance.
Q.1 Write in brief about Chaucer or Edmund Spencer or Ben Jonson or Francis Bacon or any one.
Ben Johnson: (11 June 1572 - 16 August 1637)
His full name was Benjamin Jonson. He was an English playwright and poet. He started his career in Elizabeth and age. He became literary dictator in the jacobean age and he lost his influence in the Carolina age. He was classically educated, which means he studied Greek and Roman classical literature.In Greek he read Homer Aristophanes. In Roman he read virgil, Horace Ovid, playtus.
In his place he strictly followed classical unities that means unity of time ,unity of play, unity of actions were strictly followed in his plays. He didn't mix tragedy with comedy and these were the main difference between Ben Johnson and William Shakespeare writing.Johnson strictly followed classical unity.Ben Johnson's tragedy was totally different and comedy was totally different. It was based on tragic and comic Greek models and had followers on the rules.
He wrote only two tragedies in his entire literary career.
1.Sejanus(1603)Sejanus His Fall
2.Catiline (1611) Catiline
His Conspiracy
These were the Roman tragic plays but these tragic plays felt to impress Renaissance audiences.
Tevar was influenced by Julius Caesar written by Shakespeare.William shakespear wrote on the Roman Empire, so he also wrote on the Roman Empress, but the difference was that Julius Caesar was a very famous woman empress and the heroes he had taken were absolutely fine.Like Sejanus and Catiline This Roman Empress was not famous so this nation audience did not like it.
Life & Works:
Ben Johnson was born in 1572 in poor family and his father dies when Johnson was very young.
His mother married to a brick layer. But Johnson was admitted to Westminster school by an unknown person.
After completing his education he joined his father in his brick laying and then he joined Royal army.
Then he secured place in theatre company under enterprinuership of Philip Henslowe.
And as soon as he entered the theater company, he slowly started getting the frame.
As an actor Johnson played the role of protagonist Geronimo in the Spanish tragedy by Thomas Kyd.
His first great play was Everyman in His Humour which was written in 1598.
People appreciated this play very much, then he wrote some plays
Volpone(1606)
Bartholomew Fair (1614)
The Devil is an Ass (1616)
The Alchemist (1610)
Isle of Dogs (1597)
The Poetaster (1601)
Sejanus (1603)
Eastward Ho (1605)
Tragedy:
Sejanus(1603)
Catiline(1611)
Comedies:
A Tale of a Tab(written - 1596,performed - 1633)
The Isle of Dogs (w-1597)
Every man in His Humour
Every man Out of His Humour
Cythia's Reveals or The Fountain of self Love
The Poetaster (p -1601)
The Silent Woman or Epicoence.
Ben Johnson was one such playwright who made the famous Masques and Anti Masques. And the public of England at that time liked such a place very much.Ben Johnson's plays were always full of satire and humor which people liked very much.James 1 also enjoyed Ben Johnson's play a lot. King James 1 provided royal patronage to Ben Johnson.So he used to write and perform Masques and Anti Masques for James 1. James provided him a pension of 100 marks yearly and Ben Johnson is considered as first poet Laureate of England.
Ben Johnson was always been a controversial writer. Having short temper and volatile nature.
In the year 1597, he wrote a controversial play called Isle of Dogs and in this play he satirized Monarchy and also on Queen Elizabeth. After which he had to face many difficulties.
In one year he killed his follow actor Gabriel Spencer in a duel. But because of contacts he managed to escape being hanged.Then in the year 1601 he wrote another controversial play, The Poetaster, in which he sateris his rivals John Master and Thomas Decker. Then he wrote two controversial plays .
Detail not about some works of Ben Jonson:
Every Man in His Humour:
Every Man in his humour by Ben Johnson of Johnson's works, the satires are some of his most well-known. Every Man in his humor was written in 1598 and was the first of his many "humour plays". Following Every Man in his humour was sequel ,every Man out of his humor. The two plays was received well by audience equal was not such success.
Volpone:
Volpone was published first in 1607 as auto and then in 1616 as part of Johnson's collected works. In the letter edition, the date of the first performance of volcanoes listed as 1605. However many scholars speculate that the first performance actually took place in early 1606. Volpone was first acted by the kings men with John Logan playing Volpone, rechard playing maska, and cooke playing Lady Would be.
Bartholomew Fair:
Bartholomew Fair was the very first performance of Ben Johnson's Bartholomew Fair on Halloween. Ben Johnson who briefly enjoyed stature aplayright exceeding his contemporary Shakespeare might well have spent the rest of his life haunted by the mountain of his Altmanesque comedy following the missed ventures and assorted complications of a variety of idiosyncratic characters during the celebrated Smithfield Fair Commemorating.
The Alchemist:
The Alchemist is one of Ben Johnson's four great comedies. The earliest recorded performance of the play occurred in Oxford in 1610. It was also entered into the stationers register in this year , though it might have been written and performed in 1610. It was first printed in water in 1612 and it was included in the folio of Johnson's work in 1616.
Cynthia's Revels:
Epicene or The Silent Woman:
Epicene or Silent Woman by Ben Johnson might will be termed the crying game of Renaissance drama.Epicine or silent women ,also known as Epicene,is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Johnson. Play is about a man named dauphine who creates a scheme to get his inheritance from his uncle morase The plan involves setting morrows up to Mark Epicoence,a boy disguised as a woman. It was a originally performed by Black friars children, aur children of the queens reveals a ground of boy players in 1609.Excluding it's two prologues , the play is written entirely in prose.
Selected poems of Ben Johnson: Ben Johnson is a for probably far better known today for his career as a contemporary rival of the bard for the hearts and minds of Elizabeth era theatergoers. Indeed, is big it as adrama test everyman in his humor actually featured a young actor named will Shakespeare. That success was followed by other stage works which are still performed today including Volpone, Bartholomew Fair, and The Alchemist.
conclusion: By 1623, his fame had diminished in the Royal Court and in 1628 he suffered a stroke, due to which he became ill forever.His death on 16 August 1637, after which he was buried in Best Minister B.
His play Every Man in Humour and Volpone is very famous even today.The places he wrote were Volphore, Barthlomew Fair and the Alchemist in place among British society per satire.Ben Johnson was the first writer of his time to have his own place published on his expense.It was a very common thing in those days.Ben Johnson's plays may have been less famous than Shakespeare's, but many poets and play writers followed him and made him their mentor.
And these people broughtSons of Ben and Types of Ben This was a very famous place writer who also wrote the Elizabethan Age and Jacobean age.But he got more fame in the Jacobian Age.
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