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Mgr. Budinská Jaroslava
The Periods of British Literature
1. The Middle Ages (5 th century -1500)
A. The Anglo – Saxon Period ( 5 th – 1066)
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)
The best known work :
Beowulf - heroic poem
( manuscript Cotton Vitelius)
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depicts pagan life
the hero is a brave Christian knight
struggle of goodness and evil
3 parts – in each one heroic action of B.
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.)
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 Night´s Dream, Merry Wives of
Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You
Like It, Twelfth Night……….
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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……
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 comeback+flourishment of drama
4. The Age of Reason, Enlightment
( 1720 – 1789)
DF:
 All branches of science developed
 Technical progress
 Industrial revolution
 Reason stressed
 Journalism
 Novels
 Jonathan Swift (Gulliver´s Travels)
 Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe …)
5. The Pre – Romantic Period
(turn of the 18- 19 cent.)
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poetry- Robert Burns, William Blake
prose – gothic novels( escape from the world
of industrialisation into fantasy, exotics, MA..)
Ann Radcliff, Matthew Lewis..
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)
7. From Romanticism into Realism
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The Bronte sisters
Charlotte – Jane Eyre
Emily – Wuthering Heights
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……)
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.
Gymnázium a Střední odborná škola, Lužická 423, 551 23 Jaroměř
Projekt:
Škola v digitálním světě aneb Uchop svoji šanci
Registrační číslo: CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0210
Číslo DUM:
VY_32_INOVACE_3B15
Jméno autora:
Mgr. Jaroslava Budinská
Název práce:
The Periods of British Literature
Předmět:
anglický jazyk
Ročník:
3 ‐ 4 (B1‐B2) pilotováno ve 4. ročníku
Časová dotace: cca 20 minut
Vzdělávací cíl:
seznámit se s historií a literaturou anglicky mluvící země
Inovace:
využití prostředků ICT, mezipředmětové vztahy
Poznámka:
prezentace slouží jako přehled literatury UK
Vytvořeno :
1.2.2013