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The Rivals: Anti-Sentimental Comedy

Undoubtedly Sheridan’s purpose in writing “The Rivals” was to entertain the audience by making them laugh and not by making…

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Like typical comedy of manners, “The Rivals” has a complicated plot. There are three love-affairs in it – the Absolute-Lydia…

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Spleen was the Augustan name what Elizabethan described as melancholy. It is less of a disease than a fashionable affectation.…

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An epic, according to Aristotle, is the tragedy of a conspicuous person, who is involved in adventurous events and meets…

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As Shakespeare is the poet of man, Pope is a poet of society. “The Rape of the Lock” is a…

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Pope explains that “machinery” is a term invented by the critics to signify the part which deities, angles, or demons…

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‘Symbolism means a veiled or oblique mode of communication.’ A play may have deeper meaning which is understood only by…

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The eighteenth century is and age of psychological insight. Every writer as well as his work is being analyzed…

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In order to understand Wordsworth’s view on imagination, we have to go to his poems, and to his letter. In…

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Tragic irony was used initially in ancient Greek tragedy and later almost in all tragedies. Irony consists essentially in the…