British literature

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British literature

• From the sixteenth century to the nineteenth
  century

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In the sixteenth

• Thomas More
• his masterpiece
• ltutopiagt???the name of Mores commonwealth

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In the seventeenth

• john Bunyan
• ltpilgrims progressgt(?????? )
• Bunyan gave us the great allegory which until
  recently was the most widely read book after the
  bible

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The worlds literature three great allegories

• Spensers ltFaery Queengt(?? )
• Dantes ltDivina Commediagt (??)
• Bunyans lt pilgrims progressgt(?????? )

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In the eighteenth

• It was not until the eighteenth century the
• modern novel began to appear
• Daniel Defoe
• Robinson Crusoe
• Swift ltGullivers travelsgt

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In the nineteenth

• The nineteenth century was the golden age of
  novel. There were a lot of novelists,the
  greatest of whom was Charles Dickens .ltDavid
  Copperfieldgt(?????? ) is perhaps his best novel

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the women novelists

• Nineteenth-century England also produced many
  great women novelists. The earliest of whom was
  perhaps Jane Austen .her most widely-read book is
  lt pride and prejudicegt(?????)

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• The Bronte sisters ,Emily and Charlotte
• They are noted for their novels ltWuthering
  Heightsgt(???? )and ltJane Eyre gt(?? )

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English poetry
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The father of English poetry
Chaucers main contribution to English poetry is
the introduction of thyming stanzas of various
types from France, particularly the rhyming
couplet of 5 accents in iambic to English poetry
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John Milton

• The greatest English revolutionary poet of the
  17th centry was John Milton (1608-1674).Whom we
  remember chiefly for his long epic in
• twelve books Paradise Lost,which mainly tells
  the story of Adam and Eve in the Gardan of Eden.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English
playwright and poet, recognized in much of the
world as the greatest of all dramatists Hundreds
of editions of his plays have been published,
including translations in all major languages.
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• A Lover's Complaint ???
• A Midsummer Night's Dream ?????
• Cymbeline ???
• King John ???
• King Richard II ????
• King Richard III ????
• Pericles, Prince of Tyre ?????????
• The Life of Timon of Athens ?????
• The Tempest ???
• Love's Labour's Lost ????
• Measure for Measure ????
• The Comedy of Errors ????
• King Henry the Fifth ????

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• Twelfth Night ????
• The Winter's Tale ?????
• The Two Gentlemen of Verona ??????
• Titus Andronicus ?????????
• Romeo and Juliet ???????
• Julius Caesar ?????
• Coriolanus ??????
• The Tempest ???
• The Taming of the Shrew ???
• The Rape of Lucrece ???????
• The Merry Wives of Windsor ????????
• The Merchant of Venice ?????
• The History of Troilus and Cressida ??????????
• King Henry the Eighth ????

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• There is no simple explanation for Shakespeares
  unrivaled popularity, but he remains our greatest
  entertainer and perhaps our most profound
  thinker. He had a remarkable knowledge of human
  behavior, which he was able to communicate
  through his portrayal of a wide variety of
  characters. He was able to enter fully into the
  point of view of each of his characters and to
  create vivid dramatic situations in which to
  explore human motivations and behavior. His
  mastery of poetic language and of the techniques
  of drama enabled him to combine these multiple
  viewpoints, human motives, and actions to produce
  a uniquely compelling theatrical experience.

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Shakespeare was born in Stratford, a small town
to the northwest of London. His father was a
burgher, a glove maker and later became an
officer of the town. Shakespeare may have
attended the grammar school of the town where he
may have learned little Latin. From various
records it is clear that his father John
Shakespeare, having earned much money in business
for some time, and Shakespeare might have helped
him in his butchers shop.
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