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450 BCE
Old English 450-1066
Old English or Anglo-Saxon, is an early form of the English language that was spoken in much of what is now England and in the South Asia between the years 425 and 1125
It is a language of the western Germanic family that is written using the Latin alphabet -
Jan 1, 1066
Middle English 1066-1500
It is the name given in historical philology to the various forms that symbolically adopted the English language spoken in England from the late eleventh century until the late tenth century. Language difficult to define, the French was the official language of the kingdom and the Latin language church official -
Jan 2, 1500
English Renaissance1500-1660
The increase in the use of the vernacular language as a literary language was gradually increased as the printing press developed in England, until it became widespread in the mid-sixteenth century. Literature began to flourish, the poetry, drama and prose that were written during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I constitute the Renaissance. The works of this period were affected by the Anglican Reformation and the era of discoveries -
Jan 1, 1558
Elizabethan literature 1558-1603
The term Elizabethan literature refers to the literature produced in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558 - 1603). It is usually noted that this literary flowering occurred between 1578 and 1660, thus extending beyond the death of the queen
The Elizabethan era witnessed the flourishing of literature, especially drama. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker and Francis Beaumont appear -
Literature Jacobina 1604-1611
The Jacobin period is the period of English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland 1567-1625, who also inherited the crown of England with the name of James I.1 The Jacobin era succeeds the Elizabethan, and it is often applied to the specific styles of architecture, literature, and the visual and decorative arts that characterize that period. Ben Jonson became the most prominent figure in literature, King James Bible, was one of the projects -
Puritan Literature 1653-1660
It was a radical faction of Calvinist Protestantism that had its origin in the English reformist period that developed in the reign of Elizabeth I. The central dogma is the supreme authority of God over human affairs, the Puritans stressed that the individual should be reformed by the grace of God. Puritanism has been a central theme of literary works such as La letra scarlata, where the author criticizes what he considers fanaticism and false morality of Puritanism -
Restoration age 1660-1700
Corresponding to the last years of the reign of the Stuart in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, focuses on the celebration or rejection of the restored court of Charles II. The Royal Society is created
The dates for Restoration literature are a matter of convention, and they differ markedly from genre to genre. Thus, the Restoration in drama may last until 1700, while in poetry it may last until 1666 and the annus mirabilis; and in prose it might end in 1688 -
18th century literature 1700-1798
In the literature of the eighteenth century can distinguish three literary trends: the classicist or neoclassical, heir to the classicism developed simultaneously with the baroque during the seventeenth century, and continued in force throughout almost the eighteenth century, especially in poetry and theater; the illustrated one linked to the philosophical and ideological current of the Enlightenment and the Encyclopédie -
The Augusta age 1700-1760
The very denomination of this period makes clear its classical cultural root, whose ideal of equilibrium was perfectly adapted to the English character. One of the genres most in vogue was that of travel literature, of pure testimony, or used as a means to criticize one's own reality from other points of view -
Romanticism 1798-1837
It was used for the first time a common language for poetic expression and realized the nature as evasion of the bourgeois and industrialized world, gives priority to feelings
Romanticism also renewed and enriched the limited language and style of Neoclassicism, giving entrance to the exotic and the extravagant -
Victorian 1837-1901
Produced in the United Kingdom during the reign of Victoria, there is an organized tenacity, concern for decency, change of style in a realistic sense, the novel flourishes and eminent women novelists -
Modern literature 1901-1940
Influenced by experimentalism, is distinguished by its desire to break with the Victorian heritage, are characterized by the willingness to play with the expectations of the reader, the tendency to psychoanalyze their characters by using techniques such as internal monologue or the love of mix the street slang with an elaborate language -
Post Moderns 1940-2000
Postmodernism comes to be a mixture of very different variables of responses to modernism, responses to a new state in the world, a sense of fragmentation, of discontinuity, taking the reality of that time with an imitation of the real way -
Contemporary Literature 19th century to the present
When the world wars arrived, free speech broke out and the concepts of free press and freedom of expression were established
The aim is to break with previous concepts, models and aesthetic parameters With contemporary literature arise literary expressions such as comics and manga. It also influences magazines, pamphlets, newspapers, radio, film and television
