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Metaphysical poery

                                          " THE METAPHYSICAL POETS "                                         " Had we but world enough, and time,                                            This coyness, lady, were no crime  "                                              [ Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress ]   BACKGROUND :                                   In the history of English Literature, there are many ages like Elizabethan age, Puritan age, Jacobean age, Restoration age, Eighteenth-Century Literature, The Romantic age, The Victorian age and Twentieth Century Literature. When we learn about Elizabethan, we come to know that when Elizabethan was the queen of England who had given free hand to the writers and poets at that time she had not only given financial support to the poets and writers but she had also given moral support to the writers and poets. She had given the importance to the theaters. Shakespeare has the benefit of Queen Elizabeth becau

Dr Faustus Thinking Activity

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE :                                      Doctor Faustus is a play written by Christopher Marlowe. In this play he represents one scholar who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and for power. Knowledge is center in doctor Faustus. Before I start my answers let me tell you a little about "GLOBE THEATER". As sir told us that the globe theater was a theater in London associated with William Shakespeare. The globe theater was built in 1599 by Shakespeare's playing company. The second globe theater was started in June 1614 and it was closed by an ordinance issued on 6 September 1642. It was a type of Elizabethan theater. The globe theaters are famous because Shakespeare performed many of his greatest plays in this theater.  Question no. 1. The play directed by Matthew Dunster for globe theater ends with this picture scene. What does it signify? The play directed by Matth