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English Literature

By YojhanM
  • 500

    Medieval Period

    Medieval Period
    This period collect all the works from the fall of the Roman Empire, A.D. 500. until the Renaissance of the XV century.
    Literature was dominated by religious writings, which contained poetry, theology, and the lives of the saints.
  • 1500

    Renaissance

    Renaissance
    Artistic and cultural movement that existed in England from the 16th century to the mid-17th century. It is also known as "The Age of Shakespeare" or "The Elizabethan Era", referring to the most important author and monarch of the time.
    Literature was dominated by maritime adventures, like shipwrecks reflected in Shakespeare's books.

  • Elizabethan literature

    Elizabethan literature
    Refers to the literature produced in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Literature at this time was very prosperous, especially in the field of theater.
    William Shakespeare was an outstanding author of poetry and plays, surely the most important figure that English literature has had in its history, but also other figures have had a relevant weight in the theater such as Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont. The urban comedy genre was also developed very often.

  • Restoration literature

    Restoration literature
    Literature written in English was known during the period known as the English Restoration (1660-1689). The customary comedy was created.
    The term refers to a series of works, with a relatively homogeneous style, that focus on celebrating or rejecting the restored court of Carlos II.
    John Bunyan's allegory, The Pilgrim, is one of the most widely read works of this period.

  • Neoclassical literature

    Neoclassical literature
    The English novel was not very popular until the eighteenth century.
    In the mid-eighteenth century the novel was established by authors such as Henry Fielding, Laurence Stern and Samuel Richardson, who perfected the epistolary novel; Richardson was a moralist while Fielding and Stern moved closer to the comic genre.

  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    Romantic poets appeared, taking English literature to a new degree of sentimentality and introspection. Among the leading authors of the second generation of romantic poets are Lord Byron, Percy Bysse Shelley, and John Keats
    It is characterized by its great poets, the development of the historical novel and the beginning of the gothic or horror novel.