Poetry
Prose
Drama
in the Augustan age there is the increase of the reading public
growing importance of middle classe (most of the readers were women)
circulation of news,
opinions
coffee houses
let public opinion and journalism evolve;
attended only by men.
Novelist
The spokesman of the middle class.
simple, realistic, become bookseller
Hero (loved) struggle for survival or social succes
related to the puritan ethics
Jhon Milton was a puritan
the theaters were reopened in 1660
the play is a piece of writing that is invented to be acted in a theatre
The writer of a play is called playwright.
comedy
Often the play is introduced by a prologue to inform about the character of the play and it’s followed by an epilogue to request applause.
The main support of drama is the dialogue
It comes from a Greek word that means ‘action’ – or ‘play’ in the sense of action, movement.
It is associated with a group of people doing things and another group watching them
The three most important elements of poetry are:
- its sound
- its visual layout
- the special way it used language
with its rhytm and musical qualities, was easier to learn
It was born as an oral art generally accompanied by dance and music
it is the oldest form of literature.