Explanation & Short Note For Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Explanation & Short Note For Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

Subject: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Subject Code: 231101
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B.A Hons English

Honours 3rd Year

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Explanation & Short Note For 3rd Year

• Explanations

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

1.

What might the slaying of my blood portend? 
Is it unwilling I should write this bill? 
Why stream it not, that I may write afresh? [See A Study Guide,Page-59]

2.

Marriage is but a ceremonial toy
If thou lovest me, think no more of it. [See A Study Guide,Page-60]

3.

Thinkest thou haven is such a glorious thing?
I tell thee, 'tis not half so fair as thou.
Or any man that breathes on earth.[See A Study Guide,Page-60]

4.

Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss!
Her lips suck forth my soul see where it flies!

Or,

I will be Paris, and for love of thee,
Instead of Troy,shall Wittenberg be sacked.
[See A Study Guide,Page-61]

5.

O, I'll leap up to my God! Who pulls me down?
See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!
[See A Study Guide,Page-64]

6.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burnt is Apollo's laurel bough That sometimes grew within this learned man. [See A Study Guide,Page-66]

7.

“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
[See A Study Guide,Page-61]

8.

O God,
If thou will not have mercy on my soul,
Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me
Impose some end to my incessant pain [See A Study Guide,Page-65]

9.

Soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into ocean, nev'r be found.-Identify and explain.
[See A Study Guide,Page-]

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

1.

There's no art To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust.[See A Study Guide,Page-135]

2.

Let not light see my black and deep desires.
Stars,hidéyour fires! see A Study Guide,Page-135]

3.

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, Come, you spirits
And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty.[See A Study Guide,Page-136]

4.

Here is the smell of the blood still
Or,
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this
[See A Study Guide,Page-140]

5.

“Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles.”[See A Study Guide,Page-141]

6.

She should have died hereafter,
There would have béen a time for such a word.

Or,

Life is but a walking shadow,a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.

Or,

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full if sound and fury
Signifying nothing. [See A Study Guide,Page-142]

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

1.

All that glitters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold:
Gilded tombs do worms enfold. [See A Study Guide,Page-194]

2.

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us,
do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? [SeeA Study Guide,Page-198]

3.

The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath;[See A Study Guide,Page-203]

4.

A second Daniel,a Daniel,Jew!
Now infidel I have you on the hip.[See A Study Guide,Page-205]

5.

In such a night
Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
Upon the wild sea banks, and waft her love
To come again to Carthage.[See A Study Guide, Page-205]

Volpone Ben Jonson

1.

Good morning to the day, and next,my gold!
Open the shrine that I may see my saint. [See A Study Guide, Page -272]

2.

And then,they do it by experiment,
For which the law not only death absolve 'em.
But gives them great reward; and he is loath
To hire his death so.[See A Study Guide,Page-274]

3.

So many cares, so may maladies,
So many fears attending on old age.
Yea,death so often called on as no wish
Can be more frequent with 'em.
[See A Study Guide,Page-275]

4.

No, no; it must be one that has no trick, sir, Some simple thing,
a creature made unto it; Some wench you may command. [See A Study Guide,Page-277]

5.

Did e'er man haste so for his horns?
A courtier would not ply it so for a place.
[See A Study Guide,Page-278]

6.

Come my Celia, let us prove While we can, the sports of love;
Time will not be ours forever, He at length, our good will sever; [A Study Guide,Page-279]

7.

Fall on me, roof, and bury me in ruin,
Become my grave, that wert my shelter O!
I am unmasqu'd, unspirited,undone,
Betray'd to beggary, to infamy.[See A Study Guide,Page-280]

8.

All the wise world is little else in nature
But parasites or sub-parasites.[See A Study Guide,Page-282]

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

1.

Miserable age, where only the reward of doing wellis the doing of it! [See A Study Guide,Page-345]

2.

Wish me good speed
'For I am going into a wilderness.
Where I shall find nor path nor friendly clew
To be my guide [See A Study Guide,Page-347]

3.

The misery of us that are born great! We are forced to woo, because none dare woo us. [See A Study Guide, Page-348]

4.

A politician is the devil's quilted anvil He fashions all sins on him, and the blows Are never heard he may work in lady's chamber, As here for proof.[See A Study Guide,Page-348]

5.

My may discern the shape of loveliness
More perfect in her tears than in her smiles;
[See A Study Guide,Page-349]

6.

I pray thee, look thou givist my little boy Some syrap for his cold, and let the girl Say her prayers ere she sleep.[See A Study Guide,Page-350]

7.

I know death hath ten thousand several doors
For men to take their exit: and 't is found
They go on such strange geometrical hinges.
[See A Study Guide,Page-351]

8.

Pull, and pull strongly, for your able strength Must pull down heaven upon me. [See A Study Guide,Page-351]

9.

O,this gloomy world! In what a shadow, or deep pit of darkness, Doth womanish and fearful mankind live! [See A Study Guide, Page -353]

• Short Note

Short Notes

1.University Wits
2.Tragic Hero
3.Tragic Conflict
4. Blank Verse
5.Helen
6.Renaissance
7.Seven Deadly Sins
8.Comedy of Humours
9. Tragic flaw
10.Revenge tragedy

11.Imagery
12.Soliloquies
13. Dramatic Irony
14. Romantic Comedy
15.Decadent Play
17.Weird Sisters
18.Tragi-comedy
19.Venice

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