Mystery play or Miracle play Versus Morality play
1. For Mystery play, materials are drawn from scriptural accounts or the lives of saints – from the Testaments, Old and New- and…
While the excellence of Shakespeare’s verse requires no more eulogies, the quality of his prose remains a miracle. The prose of the greatest bard of English was the finest. It…
“Ralph Roister Doister” is a comedy play written by Nicholas Udall. It was composed around 1553-1556. It is considered one of the earliest examples of English comedy and is notable…
Definition:
‘Tragi-Comedy’, as the very name signifies, is a mingling of the seriousness of tragedy and the pleasantry of comedy. It is both tragedy and comedy, padded together into one new…
The one-act play, as the name suggests, is a play performed in a single act, and that distinguishes it from regular plays that are typically divided into multiple acts. This…
