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Title: The Periods of English Literature


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VY_32_INOVACE_3B15
Gymnázium a Strední odborná škola, Lužická 423,
551 23 Jaromer
Mgr. Budinská Jaroslava

The Periods of British Literature
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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)

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  • 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.

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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.)

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2. Renaissance ( 1500- 1640)
  • DF
  • new philosophical learning humanism
  • interest in a human being
  • development of science
  • printing introduced (W. Caxton)

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  • 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

8
3.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

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4. 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 )

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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..

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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)

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7. From Romanticism into Realism
  • The Bronte sisters
  • Charlotte Jane Eyre
  • Emily Wuthering Heights

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8. Critical Realism ( 1835- 1914)
  • DF
  • Victorian Age
  • W.M. Thackeray (Vanity Fair)
  • Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit,
    Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Christmas
    Carol)

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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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  • Gymnázium a Strední odborná škola, Lužická 423,
    551 23 Jaromer
  • Projekt Škola v digitálním svete
    aneb Uchop svoji šanci
  • Registracní císlo CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0210
  • Císlo DUM VY_32_INOVACE_3B15
  • 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
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