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Period: 730 to 1580
Early British Literature
This period is known as the begining of the English literary production. After the Western Roman empire disolution, many german and anglosaxon tribes became complex kingdoms, each one with a proper language and culture. The British Islands were exposed to this process, where the English language was pedominant. -
800
Beowulf divulgation
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons -
1387
100 Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death -
1510
Christian Humanism
Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism -
Period: 1580 to
17th Century English Literature
With the ascent of Elizabeth I to the English throne, England became a powerful and influential kingdom. The royal court met the theatrical plays and this period was famous because the appearing of one of the writers with the highest reknown: William Shakespeare -
Elizabethean and Jacobean Drama
Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama -
First Shakespeare's Masterpiece
After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III -
The Temple
George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously -
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The romantic Period
This period produced authors who wrote about life, love and nature. Many of these authors found the world to be disappointing and had a melancholy bent to their works. Great novels were writen in this time -
Pope's adition to poetry
Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry -
First English Dictionary?
Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language -
British Encyclopaedia
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica -
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Victorian Literature
With the Victorian Age start and the Industrial Revolution, the English influence was spreading all over the world, the English Empire was one of the gratest on the Earth and their people was involved in a new way of live in the great industrial cities. -
Charles Dickens appear
24-year-old Charles Dickens begins monthly publication of his first work of fiction, Pickwick Papers (published in book form in 1837) -
Victorian mood
Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility -
A monster in London
Robert Louis Stevenson introduces a dual personality in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde -
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English Modernism
A new century is ahead, and the English people is about to live huge historical moments and the costant pression that suffer a worldwide powerful nation. The people is afraid and to expectation of this new century. -
Virginia Woolf
The English writer Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out -
Not a normal farm
In George Orwell's fable Animal Farm a ruthless pig, Napoleon, controls the farmyard using the techniques of Stalin -
Chocolate flavoured story
Roald Dahl publishes a fantasy treat for a starving child, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
