Title: The Periods of English Literature
1VY_32_INOVACE_3B15
Gymnázium a Strední odborná škola, Lužická 423,
551 23 Jaromer
Mgr. Budinská Jaroslava
The Periods of British Literature
2 A. The Anglo Saxon Period ( 5 th 1066)
1. The Middle Ages (5 th century -1500)
- Distinctive Features
- Authors anonymity
- Influence of the Celts, Saxons, Romans
- Literary relics written in the West- Saxon
dialect Old English - OE poetry
( heroic poems) - Latin - OE prose
(religious works, chronicles) -
3- The best known work
- Beowulf - heroic poem
( manuscript Cotton Vitelius) - depicts pagan life
- the hero is a brave Christian knight
- struggle of goodness and evil
- 3 parts in each one heroic action of B.
4 B. The Period after the Norman Conquest (
1066 1500)
- DF
- French at the royal court
- Latin by the Church ( monastries)
- Old English by common people ( N, S, Central,
Kent dialects) - OE metrical romances in verse , at the end of
MA in prose ( cycle about Artur) - medieval short stories , comic tales, ballads
( Robin Hood..) ---- source for Geoffrey
Chaucer ( Canterbury Tales etc.)
52. Renaissance ( 1500- 1640)
- DF
- new philosophical learning humanism
- interest in a human being
- development of science
- printing introduced (W. Caxton)
6- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- Comedies The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the
Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant
of Venice, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Merry Wives
of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like
It, Twelfth Night.
7- History Plays Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II,
Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Edward III - Tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet,
King Lear, Othello
83.The Civil War period Restauration of the
Stuarts ( 1640- 1720)
- DF
- Political struggle between aristocracy and rising
bourgeoasie --- conflict culminated into the
Civil war(1640-49)entertainment prohibited,
theatres closed - John Milton Paradise Lost - poem in 12 parts,
based on the Old Law - After Stuarts comebackflourishment of drama
94. The Age of Reason, Enlightment ( 1720
1789)
- DF
- All branches of science developed
- Technical progress
- Industrial revolution
- Reason stressed
- Journalism
- Novels
- Jonathan Swift (Gullivers Travels)
- Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe )
10 5. The Pre Romantic Period (turn of the
18- 19 cent.)
- poetry- Robert Burns, William Blake
- prose gothic novels( escape from the world of
industrialisation into fantasy, exotics, MA..) - Ann Radcliff, Matthew Lewis..
11 6. Romanticism (beg. of the 19 cent.)
- DF
- Industrial Revolution
- French Revolution
- American Revolution
- The Greek struggle for independence against
Turkey - EQUALITY FREEDOM, return to nature.
- Prose Sir Walter Scott
- Poetry The Lake poets ( William Wordsworth,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey) - The Late poets (George Gordon Byron, P. B.
Shelley, John Keats)
127. From Romanticism into Realism
- The Bronte sisters
- Charlotte Jane Eyre
- Emily Wuthering Heights
138. Critical Realism ( 1835- 1914)
- DF
- Victorian Age
- W.M. Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
- Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit,
Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Christmas
Carol)
14 9. The 1st Half of the 20 century
Contemporary Literature ( after WWII-
nowadays)
- DF
- Many topics, many authors
- R. L. Stevenson, O. Wilde, H. G. Wells, G. B.
Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, G. Orwell, K. Amis, W.
Golding, T. Stoppard, etc.
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- Jméno autora Mgr. Jaroslava Budinská
- Název práce The Periods of British
Literature - Predmet anglický jazyk
- Rocník 3 - 4 (B1-B2) pilotováno
ve 4. rocníku - Casová dotace cca 20 minut
- Vzdelávací cíl seznámit se s historií a
literaturou anglicky mluvící zeme - Inovace využití prostredku ICT,
mezipredmetové vztahy - Poznámka prezentace slouží jako prehled
literatury UK - Vytvoreno 1.2.2013