In “Preface to Shakespeare” Samuel Johnson praised Shakespeare by saying that “Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life” (187) and his work represents the true “general nature” (187) of reality and this makes him superior to other writers. In this essay he showed
There are certain notions which prevail in the understanding of the structure of a drama. Whether it was a Classical Greek theatre or a Classical Indian Theatre, the methodology of production followed certain rigid conventions, and these conventions, according to a modern/post-modern spectator, may look slightly mechanistic but considering the then cultural setting it was of a ritualistic pageantry. Every art form in ancient times, especially the theatre, had something to do with divinity and belief
This painting was completed shortly after her divorce with Diego Rivera. This portrait shows Frida's two different personalities. One is the traditional Frida in Tehuana costume, with a broken heart, sitting next to an independent, modern dressed Frida. In Frida's dairy, she wrote about this painting and said it is originated from her memory of an imaginary childhood friend. Later she admitted it expressed her desperation and loneliness with the separation from Diego. In this painting
the advent of the 20th century I.A Richards for the first time talked about the role of the readers. Nevertheless, the contributions of his contemporaries including Eliot and C.S Leavis cannot be overlooked. With their arrival on the critical scene, modern criticism took a different turn. M.H Abrams too was a critic and a teacher of the 20th century. He was an American literary critic and is popularly known for his works on Romanticism. One of his ground breaking work is The Mirror and the Lamp: romantic