1. Drama:Origin and DevelopmentRenaissance to Modern 2. One of the great flowerings of drama in England occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries. Many of these plays were written in verse, particularly iambic pentameter. In addition to Shakespeare, such authors as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson were prominent playwrights during this period. 3. Asin the medieval period, historical plays celebrated the lives of past kings, enhancing the image of the Tudor monarchy. Authors of this period drew some of their storylines from Greek mythology and Roman mythology or from the plays of eminent Roman playwrights such as Plautus and Terence. 4. Thepivotal and innovative contributions of the 19th-century Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen and the 20th- century German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht dominate modern drama; each inspired a tradition of imitators, which include many of the greatest playwrights of the modern era. 5. The works of both playwrights are, in their different ways, both modernist and realist, incorporating formal experimentation, meta- theatricality, and social critique. In terms of the traditional theoretical discourse of genre, Ibsens work has been described as the culmination of "liberal tragedy", while Brechts has been aligned with an historicised comedy. 6. Other important playwrights of the modern era include August Strindberg, Anton Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, Maurice Maeterlinck, Federico García Lorca, Eugene ONeill, Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Ernst Toller, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Dario Fo, Heiner Müller, and Caryl
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