among its dramatists Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, along with more than a dozen other first-rate playwrights. Under the skillful handling of these dramatists, blank verse, introduced into the lg by Surrey, became the main vehicle for tragedy and comedy. Native English drama, which had existed at least since medieval times, was the wellspring of Elizabethan drama. Although Classical drama had been known earlier, its initial influence came in the 1560s, with the translation of Latin drama, especially the revenge tragedies of Seneca and the comedies of Plautus and Terence. 13. How did the Puritans influence life and culture? As Puritan influence grew in England, more and more complaints were made about the ungodliness of the theatres, and they were occasionally closed. The Puritan influence that forced the occasional closing of the theaters was symptomatic of what was to come. The
literally “eaters of raw meat”. filibuster – Today, the term filibuster refers to act of delay action in Congress or another law- making group by making very long speeches. However, the term filibutor “pirate” was first used in 1580s and was probably derived from the Dutch vrijbuiter “freebooter”, which in turn was used for the pirates in the West Indies in Spanish (filibuster) and French (flibustier) forms. Americans had loaned the word from Dutch in 1560s and it became “freebooter” in American English, meaning “plunderer, robber, pirate.” In its legislative sense, filibuster was first used by Albert G. Brown in 1853, referring to Abraham Watkins Venable's speech against filibustering (“pirating”) intervention in Cuba. gerrymandering – In the modern sense of the word, gerrymandering refers to when politicians change the size and borders of an area before an election, so that one person, group, or party has an unfair advantage
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