The periods of british literature

Budinská Jaroslava The Periods of British Literature... The Period after the Norman Conquest 1066 – 1500 DF :  French at the royal court  Latin by the Church monastries…  Old Englis

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The Periods of British Literature

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)

1 The Middle Ages (5 th century -1500)

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

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)

 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………

 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.)

 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)

Shelley, John Keats)

7 From Romanticism into Realism

 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

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Jméno autora: Mgr Jaroslava Budinská

Název práce: The Periods of British Literature

Předmět: anglický jazyk

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