Shakespeare

History of English Literature

By Gladis Hernández Moreno
  • 1200 BCE

    Homeric period (1200 - 800)

  • 1200 BCE

    The Iliad by Homer

  • Period: 1200 BCE to 455

    THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

  • 499 BCE

    Greek writers, playwrights, and philosophers include Gorgias, Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, and Sophocles. The fifth century (499-400 BCE) in particular is renowned as The Golden Age of Greece

  • 200 BCE

    Classical Roman Period (200 - 455 CE)

  • 200 BCE

    Roman writers include Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. Roman philosophers include Marcus Aurelius and Lucretius. Roman rhetoricians include Cicero and Quintilian

  • 70 BCE

    Patristic Period (70 - 455 CE)

  • 70 BCE

    Early Christian writers include Saint Augustine, Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Saint Ambrose and Saint Jerome

    This is the period when Saint Jerome first compiled the Bible, Christianity spread across Europe, and the Roman Empire suffered its dying convulsions
  • 428

    The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (428 - 1066)

  • 428

    Early Old English poems such as Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer originated sometime late in this period

  • 455

    Medieval literature was nourished by religious themes, during the Renaissance writers opted for more secular subjects

  • Period: 455 to 1485

    THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

  • 500

    Roman writers include Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. Roman philosophers include Marcus Aurelius and Lucretius. Roman rhetoricians include Cicero and Quintilian

  • 800

    Classical Greek Period (800 - 200)

  • 800

    In northern Europe, this time period marks the setting of Viking sagas

  • 1066

    The Middle English Period (1066 - 1450)

  • 1200

    Romance writings

  • 1200

    ❤ ´Sir Gawain and the Green Knight´

    It is a metric romanc of the late fourteenth century, written in a single manuscript, which also contains three other works of Christian orientation
  • 1485

    Early Tudor Period (1485 - 1558)

  • 1485

    Literature is characterized by a special interest in human behavior as the main theme of the works, partly due to the influence of Italian humanism

  • Period: 1485 to

    THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION

  • 1558

    Elizabethan Period (1558 - 1603)

  • 1558

    Drama prevails

  • 1564

    William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

  • 1564

    Roman and Juliet

  • 1578

    Elizabethan Theater (1578-1642)

    Called the set of dramatic works written and performed during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, and especially the work of William Shakespeare (1564-1616).

  • Jacobean Period (1603 - 1625)

  • Ben Jonson

    Incorporates the theory of the four moods. According to this medical theory, the differences in human behavior come from the predominance of one of the four moods in the body (blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile); These moods correspond to the four elements of the universe: air, water, fire and earth.

  • Restoration Period (1660 - 1700)

  • The Augustan Age (1700 - 1750)

  • The Age of Johnson (1750 - 1790)

  • The subject of study is "rhetoric"

  • The English literature enters the University

  • Period: to

    THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

  • John Keats (1795 - 1821)

  • Charles Dickens (1812)

  • University College London began teaching literature

  • Period: to

    THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

  • King’s College London began teaching literature

  • Glasgow began teaching literature

  • Trinity College Dublin began teaching literature

  • Cambridge University established an examination board in ‘Medieval and Modern Languages’

  • Oxford established a Professorship in English Language and Literature

  • Oscar Wilde (1900)

  • Cambridge a separate Professorship in English Literature

  • Period: to

    THE MODERN PERIOD

  • Period: to

    THE POSTMODERN PERIOD

  • The picture of Dorian Gray