The periods of british literature

VY_32_INOVACE_3B15 Gymnázium a Střední odborná škola, Lužická 423, 551 23 Jaroměř Mgr Budinská Jaroslava The Periods of British Literature The Middle Ages (5 th century -1500) A The Anglo – Saxon Period ( th – 1066) Distinctive Features :  Authors anonymity  Influence of the Celts, Saxons, Romans  Literary relics written in the West- Saxon dialect = Old English - OE poetry ( heroic poems)  Latin - OE prose (religious works, chronicles) The best known work : Beowulf - heroic poem ( manuscript Cotton Vitelius)     depicts pagan life the hero is a brave Christian knight struggle of goodness and evil parts – in each one heroic action of B B The Period after the Norman Conquest ( 1066 – 1500) DF :  French at the royal court  Latin by the Church ( monastries…)  Old English by common people ( N, S, Central, Kent dialects)  OE – metrical romances in verse , at the end of MA in prose ( cycle about Artur)  medieval short stories , comic tales, ballads… ( Robin Hood ) source for Geoffrey Chaucer ( Canterbury Tales etc.) Renaissance ( 1500- 1640) DF:  new philosophical learning – humanism  interest in a human being  development of science  printing introduced (W Caxton)   William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night………   History Plays: Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Edward III …… Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello…… 3.The Civil War period + Restauration of the Stuarts ( 1640- 1720) DF:  Political struggle between aristocracy and rising bourgeoasie - conflict culminated into the Civil war(1640-49)—entertainment prohibited, theatres closed  John Milton – Paradise Lost - poem in 12 parts, based on the Old Law  After Stuarts comeback+flourishment of drama The Age of Reason, Enlightment ( 1720 – 1789) DF:  All branches of science developed  Technical progress  Industrial revolution  Reason stressed  Journalism  Novels  Jonathan Swift (Gulliver´s Travels)  Daniel Defoe (Robinson Crusoe …) The Pre – Romantic Period (turn of the 18- 19 cent.)    poetry- Robert Burns, William Blake prose – gothic novels( escape from the world of industrialisation into fantasy, exotics, MA ) Ann Radcliff, Matthew Lewis Romanticism (beg of the 19 cent.) DF:  Industrial Revolution  French Revolution  American Revolution  The Greek struggle for independence against Turkey  EQUALITY+ FREEDOM, return to nature…  Prose – Sir Walter Scott  Poetry –The Lake poets ( William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey)  The Late poets (George Gordon Byron, P B Shelley, John Keats) From Romanticism into Realism    The Bronte sisters Charlotte – Jane Eyre Emily – Wuthering Heights Critical Realism ( 1835- 1914) DF:  Victorian Age  W.M Thackeray (Vanity Fair)  Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Christmas Carol……) The 1st Half of the 20 century + Contemporary Literature ( after WWII- nowadays) DF:  Many topics, many authors  R L Stevenson, O Wilde, H G Wells, G B Shaw, D H Lawrence, G Orwell, K Amis, W Golding, T Stoppard, etc Gymnázium a Střední odborná škola, Lužická 423, 551 23 Jaroměř Projekt: Škola v digitálním světě aneb Uchop svoji šanci Registrační číslo: CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0210 Číslo DUM: VY_32_INOVACE_3B15 Jméno autora: Mgr Jaroslava Budinská Název práce: The Periods of British Literature Předmět: anglický jazyk Ročník: ‐ (B1‐B2) pilotováno ve ročníku Časová dotace: cca 20 minut Vzdělávací cíl: seznámit se s historií a literaturou anglicky mluvící země Inovace: využití prostředků ICT, mezipředmětové vztahy Poznámka: prezentace slouží jako přehled literatury UK Vytvořeno : 1.2.2013 [...]... (beg of the 19 cent.) DF:  Industrial Revolution  French Revolution  American Revolution  The Greek struggle for independence against Turkey  EQUALITY+ FREEDOM, return to nature…  Prose – Sir Walter Scott  Poetry The Lake poets ( William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey)  The Late poets (George Gordon Byron, P B Shelley, John Keats) 7 From Romanticism into Realism    The. .. Romanticism into Realism    The Bronte sisters Charlotte – Jane Eyre Emily – Wuthering Heights 8 Critical Realism ( 1835- 1914) DF:  Victorian Age  W.M Thackeray (Vanity Fair)  Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Christmas Carol……) 9 The 1st Half of the 20 century + Contemporary Literature ( after WWII- nowadays) DF:  Many topics, many authors  R L Stevenson,... 23 Jaroměř Projekt: Škola v digitálním světě aneb Uchop svoji šanci Registrační číslo: CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0210 Číslo DUM: VY_32_INOVACE_3B15 Jméno autora: Mgr Jaroslava Budinská Název práce: The Periods of British Literature Předmět: anglický jazyk Ročník: 3 ‐ 4 (B1‐B2) pilotováno ve 4 ročníku Časová dotace: cca 20 minut Vzdělávací cíl: seznámit se s historií a literaturou anglicky mluvící země Inovace: