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Period: 500 to Nov 1, 1500
Middle Ages
Presentation the dark ages: church / superstition - faith instead of knowledge people were mainly farmers drama was born (people could not read --> had to see a story)
few authors known
Geoffrey Chaucer -
Period: Nov 1, 1500 to
Renaissance
Presentation rebirth
civil wars
church started to get questioned
printing press
still many farmers, growth of population --> move to cities
the plague
comedy, drama, romance, tragedy
latin, italian
William Shakespeare! -
Nov 27, 1564
Shakespeare
1564- 1616
Poet, Playwright and actor
Anne Hathaway
Successful career
1589-1613
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet -
Period: to
Enlightenment
Presentation REason Logic Science Irony/ Satires --> criticize society
French Revolution / AMerican Independence
Being an author is seen as a proprt profession -
Period: to
Romantic Period
Presentation Industrial revolution (pollution)
movement against reason and logic
feelings
the beauty of nature
Beginning of Gothic movement (Fear and Horror/ Vampires etc)
patriarchic families (man in charge..) -
Period: to
Victorian Age
Presentation Queen Elisabeth
Britain was a powerful and prosperous nation
Inustrial revolution (--> child labour, pollution)
rich & poor classes
medical breakthroughs / experiments
satire
Gothic
novels
(in the US slavery) -
Period: to
Twentieth Century I
Presentation WWI & WW2
war poets/ patriotism / pacifism
high standart of living
women's rights
interior monologue
Iceberg Technique
Psychology (writing about what is going on inside the head)
Dystopia -
Period: to
Twentieth Century II
Presentation Cold War / Vietnman War
"USA rules"
modern technology (TV, Computer, Internet)
The American Dream (husband, wife, two kide, car ..)
Discrimination (against blacks/ homosexuals etc)
Hippies
Postmodernism (Absurd, Extistentialism)
Crime Fiction
Fantasy
