Term Definitions

Description

Define each term below; name, by author and title, one required work to which this term is relevant, and explain how the term is relevant; and name, by author and title, one required work to which the term is not relevant, and explain how the term is not relevant.

Terms:
1. comedy (comic plot)
2.dramatic monologue

3. experimental literature

4. picaresque novel

5. prose drama

Work to be referenced to are any of these:

The Renaissance c. 1606: William Shakespeare, King Lear The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (aka The Enlightenment, aka Neoclassicism) 1741: Eliza Haywood, Anti-Pamela Romanticism 1783: “Sir Patrick Spence”—this variant was published in Scottish Ballads collected by John Pinkerton; however, the original oral version originated much earlier, probably in the Medieval Period. 1798: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 1800: William Wordsworth, “Michael” The Victorian Period 1842: Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess” 1855: Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” 1861: George Eliot, Silas Marner 1862: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Mother and Poet” 1892: Rudyard Kipling, “The Ballad of East and West” 1894: E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), “The Cattle Thief” Modernism 1930: Langston Hughes, Not without Laughter 1933: Virginia Woolf, Flush The Contemporary Period (aka Post-Modernism) 1966: Margaret Laurence, A Jest of God 1982: Caryl Churchill, Top Girls 1996: Ayub Khan-Din, East is East 2006: Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder