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The Anti-Sentimental Comedy Sheridan and Goldsmith
1. The Anti- Sentimental Comedy
Sheridan and Goldsmith
• Presented by Megha B Trivedi
• Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU
• Presentation Topic- The Anti-Sentimental Comedy
Sheridan and Goldsmith
• Paper No-2 The Neo-Classical Literature
• M.A Sem-1
• Roll No-25
• Batch- 2016-2018
• Email Id- meghatrivedi666@gmail.com
• Enrolment No - 2069108420170030
2. What is Comedy
• Hear comedy is considered primarily as a litearary genre.
• The word COMEDY seems to be connected by derivation with the verb
meaning “ to revel”, and comedy arose out of the revels associated
with the rites of Dionysus, a god of vegetation.
• Type of Comedy
1 Comedy
2 Comedy of manners
3 Farce
4Romentic Comedy
5 Satirical Comedy
6 Tragicomedy
7 Sentimental Comedy
8 Anti- Sentimental Comedy
3. Sentimental Comedy
• Popular in 18th
century
• Related to our emotions, felling like sorrow and pity
etc.
• Sometime in this comedy we find mannersless,
vulgarity and profanity.
• Known as “ Domestic tragedy”.
4. Anti- Sentimental Comedy
• Reaction against sentimental comedy
• Known as – “ Comedy of manners”
“ Artificial Comedy”
• Directly connected with sophisticated upper
class society.
• For ex- “ The school for scandal”
5. Different Between Sentimental
&Anti-Sentimental Comedy
• Sentimental comedy is
weeping comedy
• Evoking of emotion.
• Sentimental comedy
connected with middle
class.
• All characters are good
• Ex- “ School for
scandal”
• Anti- sentimental
comedy is laughing
comedy.
• Evoking of people
vulgarity.
• Anti- sentimental
comedy connected with
high class.
• All characters like
sophisticated &
arrogant.
• Ex- “She stoops to
conquer”
6. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Born- 30 October 1751 in Dublin, Ireland
• He was Statesman and Playwright
• Work- “The Rivals”
• Died- 7 July 1816 in London, England
7. Oliver Goldsmith
• Born- 10th
November, 1728
• He was a playwright and Poet
• Work- “ She stoops to conquer”
• Died- 4 April 1774, London, England