Name: Zarna
Bhatti
Course: M.A.
Sm-1
Paper no: 2
The Neo-classical Literature
Topic:
Characteristics of Anti-sentimental Comedy with reference to Sheridan and
Goldsmith’s plays
Year:
2015-2017
Enrollment:
PG15101005
Submitted
by: Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English
M.k. Bhavnagar
University
Anti-sentimental
Comedy:
Introduction:
First of all
I presented what is comedy? The word comedy is generally used for a kind of
play which ends happily. A genuine comedy has the atmosphere of delight with
sparking fun throughout the play. Shakespeare and Benjonson are the modern
masters of comedy. Comedy’s can be divided into following kinds:
1. Classical comedy :
The classical writers like Plato, Aristophanes. The most important rules
are observance of three unities of time, places and action
2. Romantic comedy:
The Shakespeare comedy is romantic in spirit and construction. The comic
and the tragic character and the incident for the example “A mMidsummerNight’s
Dream” by Shakespeare. Its aim is not corrective or satiric but innocent, good nature.
In Shakespearean comedies there is intervention of super natural character.
3. The comedy of Humor:
This comedy of Benjonson comedy classical, realistic and satirical is
also called comedy of humor. In this comedy each character is the master
passion which governs all his action. The characters are merely type the local familiar.
4. The comedy of manners:
In this comedy in the restoration age. In this comedy represent the upper
classes in which manners are supreme. The backgrounds of this comedy often
“London Parks, Streets, fashionable’s ladies” Drawing room and coffee house.
5. Farce:
Farce comedy is a law kind of comedy. Laughter by the used of absurd
characters and situations and dialogue as well. It is characterized by exaggeration
and there is much nonsense in it.
6. The tragic comedy or Dark comedy:
In this comedy presented tragic or serious problems are presented in the
beginning but it ends happily. The ending is happy for same character and
unhappy for others serious aspects at the beginning create gloom in the comedy
Shakespeare comedy like “Measure for Measure.” The problems here we “What is
more important, purity of soul or body?” and the other example from modern
drama can be of Samuel Bucket’s “Waiting for Godo’t” and other example like
Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party.” We can say that comedy is end important
form of drama in literature. It can make
the readers laugh and this various type given as above.
What is Sentimental comedy and Anti-Sentimental comedy?
It can be defined as overindulgence of emotions of pathos and sympathy.
Sentimental present upper class. When Anti-sentimental comedy present middle class.
Sentimental comedy contains with reaction of middle class against obscenity
audience scenes with extreme emotions evoking excessive. The Anti-sentimental
comedy restoration comedy was fallow by the sentimental comedy of Steele and
other amd had a great vogue in the 18th century, until ‘Tearful Muse
was laughed out by Gold smith and Sheridan.
The comedy of humor which Goldsmith and Sheridan cultivate in 18th
century was the
reaction against the sentimental comedy of clabber out put in
Anti-sentimental comedy; it takes old Forney of comedy.comedy of manners, which
is also called generally for the Anti-sentimental comedy.
Characteristic of Anti-sentimental comedy:
1. Amusing intrigues and situations.
2. Satirical comedy and irony.
3. Marriage for love and marriage for money.
4. Wit of langaguge and verbal dialogue.
5. Emotions have boundaries.
6. Farce and disguise.
The anti-sentimental comedy deals with the and etc focus on major
character as lover.
Let’s discuss about the Anti- sentimental comedy with its characteristics.
1. The Rival
2. The School for Scandal.
3. She Stoop Conquer.
1. She Stoops Conquer:
This
wonderful comedy by biggest play Wright, Oliver Gold smith in its time healding
the era of laughing comedies and being contemporary to other play. The story
revolves around the family of Hard castle and their frands Gold smith bring out
the comic effect in depicting this character, their foibles and schemes and in
which lend them in more troubles, in the very beginning in the very beginning
of play in the first scene speech by Hard castle.
She Stoops
to conquer was produce in 1773 Tony Lumkin frequenter of the “Three jolly
pigeons idle and ignorant but the cunning and marvelous. Charles Marlow and
Miss Hard castle and the young man and his friends, according travel down to
pay the hard castle a visit. Marlow treating hard castle as the land lord of
the supposed inn, making violent love to Miss Hard castle that he takes for one
of the servant
This comedy
is very wonderful comedy by Gold smith. In this comedy of character comic
effective and depicting these character. At the time of her Stoops Conquer, popular
theatre comedy was superadded into what was commonly termed “sentimental
comedy” and “Laughing comedy”
By the
depicting emotional distress the play moves the audience. The moral of the play
is to mating the virtue. In sentimental comedy the hero is a positive rot
agonist. Steel wanted sentimental comedy to be a source of role model. So he
replaced laughter with serious attitude of life character high moral statement
is similar to tragedy.
In these
play almost or character are good.
In this novel ending the novel through in those
play Gold smith presented image through the character. Love is central theme,
but for money also this comedy is very wonderful comedy. In this comedy
character are very wonderful and interesting characters.
The rival:
In this play
they are regarding as a pardy of sentimental comedy. The sense between Falkland
and Julia are satire on the sentimental comedy. This sentimental comedy would clearly reveal
that Sheridan’s intention was to poke fun at the sentimental comedy. The true
character is Falkland is indicated to us by Absolute description of him as the
“Most easing, captious, incorrigible lover” Sheridan seems to pleading for
mental equilibrium even in the case of an ardent lover. Lydia two us over
sentimental girl though in different way, she two becomes the subject ridicule
in the play. Her romantic idea her and romantic planning appear absurd to us.
She also wants not the usual routine marriage but a run way marriage.
The reaction
of Gold smith and Sheridan the comedy of sentimental driven out. Gold smith; s
play a reflection of the idealism which was the beginning to ending its self in
the realistic age. The Rivals was written as a comedy pure and simple. Sheridan
continues to Falkland in the same satirical manner. The manner in which the
other characters have been portrayed is also evidence of anti-sentimental
character of the play. Bob acres are a country boor with no romantic or sentimental
pretension but towards the play he shows that he is more practical than anybody
else by saying:
“If I can’t
a wife without fighting for her, by any valour, I’ll live a bachelor.”
Then there
is Sir Luscious who is absurd but because of sentimentality. One reason why he
is because of his insistence on fighting duels. But he does not want to fight
duels for the sake of my sentiment.
3. The
School for Scandal:
Lady sneer
well, who in her youth was the target slander, has set her life upon a course
to reduce the reputations of other women to the level of her own. The love
between Charles and Maria and to gain Charles for herself along with sir
Oliver’s fortune. She is not successful however, when she abuses Charles listen
it her.
Sometime sir
peter trazle ponders the wisdom of his marriage to lady Teazle, doubting the judgments
of an old bachelor in marrying a young wife. Lady Treazle is a country bred girl
who is enjoying London life extra vagantliand to the full.
One day sir
peter and Lady Teazle quarrel because sir peter violently objects to her
attendance at the home of Lady Sneer well. When they arrive, Lady Sneer well’s
room are full of people uttering libelous remarks about their enemies and
saying even worse things about their friends. Sir Peter escapes as soon as
possible.
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