BRITISH CRITICISM DURING THE 17th CENTURY, Unit II The Seventeenth Century II: Rymer to Dennis–Blamiers

BRITISH CRITICISM DURING THE 17^th CENTURY –Blamiers

M. Phil English, Bharathiar University--Blamiers—

Approaches--Unit II

Summary by Dr. S. Sreekumar

Unit II The Seventeenth Century II: Rymer to Dennis

The public who came to witness the Restoration Dramas were very different from those who went to the Globe to see the plays of Shakespeare. The Restoration theatre provided amusement for a leisured and degenerate society. Puritans shunned it. Respectable Londoners seldom visited it.

CRISIS IN ORIENTALISM--Edward Said

CRISIS IN ORIENTALISM

Edward Said

[  Lecture notes by S. Sreekumar for PG students]

Edward Said—A Biographical Note

Edward Said was a Palestinian born professor and scholar. A literary theorist and academician, he wrote many books on literary criticism, musical criticism, and issues of post-colonialism. He served as a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University (former American President Barak Obama was his student at Columbia University) in a teaching career that spanned four decades. He served as Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard College in 1974.He had a deep interest in politics and represented the Palestinian National Council (PNC) as an independent member from 1977 to 1991.