Give an account of the major
trends in Post Shakespearean drama and account for its decline.
Post-Shakespearean Dramatists
Introduction -
Post Shakespearean drama/Jacobean
drama (that is, the drama of the age of James 11603-1625) was a decadent form
of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The Elizabethan age was the
golden age of English drama. With the turn of the century the drama in England
also took a turn. It does not mean that there were no dramatists left. There
certainly was a large number of them, but none of them could come anywhere near
Shakespeare. Just as after Chaucer, poetry in England suffered a decline,
similarly after Shakespeare had given his best (that is, after the sixteenth
century) drama also suffered a decline. With the passage of time it grew more
and more decadent, till with Shirley in the age of Charles I the old kind of
drama expired and even theatres were closed (in 1642) by Puritans. Long says
"It was inevitable that the drama should decline after Shakespeare, for the
simple reason that there was no other great enough to fill his place."
Those Factors which are
responsible for the decline of Drama during the post Shakespearean period are
as follows:
1) The Change of Patrons - One of
the reasons for the decadence in Jacobean/Post- Shakespearean drama was its
loss of national spirit and patronage. In the Elizabethan period, drama was
patronised by feudal lords. From the time of James I, dramatists depended on
the king and the queen and royal domination. Dramatists wrote plays to cater to
the taste of the court, so the theatre was cut off from common life.................
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