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OLD ENGLISH 450-1066
Was characterized by epic and heroic stories
Works: Beowulf -
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MIDDLE ENGLISH 1066-1500
It consisted primarily of religious writings
Authors and works: Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales)
Godofredo de Monmouth (Regum Britanniae) -
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ELIZABETHAN AGE 1558-1603
Subjects: The reign of Elizabeth I and the Renaissance optimism
Authors: Edmund Spencer and William Shakespeare
Works: The Faerie Queene, Hamlet -
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JACOBEAN AGE 1603-1625
Topics: social abuse and rivarlry, The King James version of the Bibile
Authors: Thomas Middelton, Francis Bacon, George Champan,
Works: The changeling, Caesar's Fall -
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CAROLINE AGE 1625-1649
Style: refinement and elegance
Authors: William Davenant, Thomas Carew, Robert Herrick
Works: Enchanted Island, Hespérides -
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NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD 1660-1785
.Subjects: religion, philosphy, reason, wit, refinement and skepticism; French Literature
Jhon Milton (Paradise Lost); John Bunyan (The Piligrim´s Progress); Thomas Otway (The soldier´s Fortune) -
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THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 1785-1830
It's characterized buy it´s strong use of feeling, it's personal nature, use of symbolism and explore of the super natural
Mary Shelley (Frankenstein); Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice) -
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THE VICTORIAN PERIOD 1832-1901
Topics: issues and problems of the day, like social, religious, economic and intellectual issues; problems related to Industrial Revolution; the feminist movement; the impact of Charles Darwin´s theory about evolution and the class tensions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson (Ulysses); Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre); Oscar Wilde (The picture of Dorian Grey) -
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THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD 1901-1914
Named after the king Edward VII. This literature acttacks the selfishness and the upperclass. It´s principal author is H.G Wells (The Time Machine) -
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THE MODERN PERIOD 1914-1945
Influenced by the WWI and WWII; it´s charcterized by the advances in technology; medicine; science and the women freedom
Authors and their work: Virgina Woolf (A Room of One's Own); James Barrie (Peter Pan and Wendy); George Shaw (Saint Joan) -
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POST MODERN 1945-NOW
Characterized by the advance and expanssion of digitilization and the global information control
Authors and their works: J.K Rowling (Harry Potter); Ian McEwan (Atonement); Graham Swift (The Light of Day)