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Period: 450 to 1066
Old english or anglo Saxon Period
MIx of native Brihonic languageand tribal Germanic language.
This period of literature dates back to their invasion (along with the Jutes) of Celtic England circa 450. -
986
Beowulf
Heroic poetry -
987
Dream of the Rood
Lyric Poetry -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle english
This period is home to the likes of Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson. Notable works include "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." -
Period: 1066 to 1340
Anglo Norman Period
There was Poets like:
Geoffrey of Mommouth
Wace Layton -
1136
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth -
1189
The owl and the nightingale
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1190
Brut
Layamon -
Period: 1340 to 1400
Age of Chaucer
The main plays are : Pleasant Rebellion and The canterbury Tales -
1381
Peasant Rebellion
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1387
The canterbury Tales
Is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer -
Period: 1400 to 1558
Age of revival
Arrival of printing press -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissance
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Period: 1558 to
Elizabethan Age
Renaissance Human
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
Was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist -
Romeo and Julieth
Writing by William Shakespeare -
Fowre Hymnes
Edmund Spenser:
Was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. -
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Neoclassical
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The Revenger's Tragedy
is an English-language Jacobean revenge tragedy formerly attributed to Cyril Tourneur but now generally recognised as the work of Thomas Middleton. -
Every Man in His Humour
It is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy," in which each major character is dominated by an over-riding humour or obsession. -
Areopagitica
Wroten by John Milton -
A Priest to the Temple
Wrote by George Herbert -
The Old Bachelor
Wroten by William Congreve -
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Romantic
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Lyrical Ballads
Is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
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Victorian
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On the Origin of Species
Wroten by Charles Darwin -
The Picture of Dorian Gray
It is the only novel written by Wilde -
The Interpretation of Dreams
It is a book by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in which the author introduces his theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation, and discusses what would later become the theory of the Oedipus complex -
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Edwardian
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Georgian
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Modern
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Postmodern
The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended. -
Waiting for Godot
is a play by Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting Godot, who never arrives.
