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Medieval period
literary works of all kinds were produced, from the totally sacred to the completely profane.
Authors: Beowulf, Geoffrey Chaucer.
Works: Canterbury tales, epic poems, the hymn of Caedmon. -
Renaissance
Caxton introduces the printing press, there is a special interest in human behavior, influenced by Italian humanism. Author: The time of Shakespeare »although in this time little was known of the writer. Works: Book of Common Prayer -
Elizabethan literature
The drama flourishes, the Elizabethan theater is produced, the rediscovery of the Greek and Roman theater classics is generated. The urban comedy genre was also developed. Authors: William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont. Works: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antonio and Cleopatra and The Tempest. -
Jacobean literature
The theater of revenge was popular, the King James Bible is translated and the theory of the four moods is known. works : The Knight of the Burning Pestle, The General History of the Turks. Autores: Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Kyd, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, y William Tyndale. -
Restoration Literature
The satirical works, the comedy of manners and two genres (fiction and journalism) predominate. Authors: Aphra Behn, John Bunyan Works: The Pilgrim, Paradise Lost, Sodom, the wife of the countryside, defamation law, Satire on Mankind. -
Augustinian Literature
This era saw the rapid development of the epistolary novel, the birth of political writings and literacy and the population grew. Works: Robinson Crusoe, The Dedication to Prince Posterity, Tale of a barrel and the dunciada Authors: Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Stern and Samuel Richardson. -
Romanticism Literature
There is a great influence of pre-industrial issues such as nature, Greco-Roman and medieval myths.
Poets take English literature to a new degree of sentimentality and introspection. Authors: William Wordsworth Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Gustavo adolfo, Thomas Chatterton, James Macpherson. Works: The walker over the sea of clouds, The Death of Chatterton, lyric ballads. -
Victorian Literature
The realistic novel and satire were the most important literary forms, works of strong emotional content are also produced. The police novel stands out. Works: Treasure Island, Portraits of the landowners' life, The Vanity Fair Satire, The Lady in White. Authors: Brontë sisters; William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot; Anthony Trollope Charles Dickens, Tennyson,
