Samuvel Sankari

This essay “The South Sea House” was published in 1820, by the well known prose writer Charles Lamb, in The London Magazine. The author shares his personal experience in the South Sea House, which was established in 1710.                 The South Sea House which was located in between the Bank and the Flower pot grasp everyone’s attention. The Melancholy, handsome and brick stone building which is very next to Bishopsgate is get noticed by everybody. The magnificent structure, the garden with the huge pillars, looks so desolate, like Balclutha.                 Once this building was a busy trade center. Merchants used to gather here and gain a lot of profits. But there is no life in it now. Though the porticoes and the staircases are well maintained only very few people use it.  In the committee rooms the pictures of officers a...

Mazie Beatrice Hall was born on July 8, 1902. She was a retired school teacher, social historian and civil right activist. She was nicknamed as ‘Amazing Mazie of the Main Lane’. Her one act play “The Trial of Billy Scott” was published in an anthology titled “One Hundred Plays for Children”. It’s an academic Comedy. The play focus on the trial of the main character Billy Scott who is accused of abusing Vernon J. Verb by using the sentence “We was going to the park”. Throughout the play, testimony for and against Billy is given by those who knew him best. The action of the play takes place in a typical courtroom. Once Bailiff announces the arrival of the judge, the trial starts. Billy refuses to accept the charge against him. Judge asks the jury to listen to the testimony and come to a judgment without any partiality. Prosecuting Attorney argues that Billy has committed an unpardonable crime by ill-treating the verb, which is an important member of the Good English family. He furthe...

                  Charles Lamb, one of the greatest English prose writer was born in England in 1775. He wrote most of his essays under the pen name Elia. He is a great essayist, poet and antiquarian. Some of the famous works of Charles Lamb are “On the Tragedies of Shakespeare”, “Tales of Rosamund Gray”, “Tales from Shakespeare”, “Last Essays of Elia” and so on.                 This essay “A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig” was published in 1822, in the London Magazine under the pen name ‘Elia’. It is a humorous essay and Lamb has used many anecdotes in this essay. The narrator opens the essay by stating that long back people didn’t cook their meat and they used to eat it raw. He says that this was hinted by Confucius, who used the term ‘Cook’s holiday’ for the first time. Confucius tells how the art of roasting was discovered by the...

Movva Venkata Rama Sarma was born in 1920. He was an eminent teacher of English, an editor, scholar, novelist and playwright. He was also a member of the military society of America. His work “The Mahatma” is an one act play which was published in 1982. This play is true to the facts and it picturizes the life of Mahatma, his ideas, principles and his assassination. It is a play on martyrdom.   This play consists of two scenes. The first scene takes place on January 20, 1948 near the Birla house, which is in New Delhi. The second scene takes place on the day on which Gandhi was assassinated that is on January 30, 1948.                     On January 20, 1948 many people are gathered near the Birla house to listen to Gandhiji. They were eagerly waiting for the arrival of Mahatma. But in a corner Nathuram Godse and three other youngsters, who hate Gandhiji, his ideas and principles are planning to kill him. Nathuram Gods...