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Period: 500 to 1400
Medieval period
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700
Beowulf
Poem written in alliterative verse, has 3182 verses. -
890
ANGLOSAJONA CHRONICLE
It is a writing where different related texts meet. Where they tell the story of the Anglasajones and the colonization of Britain. -
1000
Conquest
The conquest of the Vikings brought with it some changes in grammar. -
1200
The romances began.
They began to write from this year, romances both in prose and in verse. -
1387
Geoffrey Chaucer.
He is the first great English author, with his most famous work stories of CANTERBURY. Here they narrate the changes in Europe. -
Period: 1400 to
The english rebirth.
At this historical moment it affected the creation of music and consolidate literature, with characters like Shakespeare and Malowe -
1476
Birth of a new literature.
In the year 1476, the printing press arrived in England. The Protestant reform inspired a liturgy of its own, framed in the book common prayer, important influence in English literature. -
1564
William Shakespeare
English playwright and poet. It is here on this date when this important English author is born. -
Romeo and Juliet
It is a tragedy of Shakespeare and is one of the most important works of this English author. Consider it as a spectacular and wonderful work in the history of literature. -
Birth political literature
The turbulent period of the mid-seventeenth century, during the reign of Charles I, the subsequent Commonwealth and the Protectorate, witnessed the birth of political literature. The pamphlets written by supporters of each of the factions that were organized during the civil war, ranged from visceral written personal attacks to various forms of propaganda, through schemes that sought a way to reform the nation. -
LEVIATHAN
In his most famous treatise, Leviathan (1651), Hobbes formally pointed out the passage from the doctrine of natural law to the theory of law as a social contract. According to this English philosopher, in the condition of a state of nature, all men are free and yet they live in perpetual danger of a war of all against all. -
Charles Dicken
He began to know the success in 1836, when he was a journalist and wrote The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club, which granted him the status of pioneer in the publications by episodes. -
Virginia Woolf
British writer The name of Virginia Woolf appears together with that of James Joyce, Thomas Mann or Franz Kafka among the great innovators of the modern novel
