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Writing was not given much importance. The Anglo-Saxons were made up of three tribes who came to England through the North Sea route - the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes. Beowoulf is a 300 line poem and it was probably written 300 years later when 'written texts' came into existence. It was probably completed in the 8th Century. They brought the French language to England. French was adopted as the new language for the parliament.
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the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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Derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
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The most respected and famous writer of the middle ages was Geoffrey.
Chaucer. He is known as the father figure in English literature. In the 13th
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Miracle plays the actual story revolves around the main characters and on
the other hand, the other characters were short reckoned or undervalued.
Comic scenes were also a part of Miracle plays. Moreover, there were devil
characters present in those plays. The structure of the play is basically
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is generally considered to be one of the three most important philosopher-theologians of Western Europe in the High Middle Ages
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Lyric poetry in English begins in the 16th century with the work the great poets such as Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard,
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Renassaince was initially started at Italy in the late 14th century. European scholars and writers found that Renassaince was doing good at Italy. So, at around 1500 they brought the literature in England. It made it possible for the writers to produce written works.
the English vocabulary damn rich. A word which we use widely, 'beautiful' was coined by Shakespeare. It's hard to imagine such an indispensable word not being used before him. -
The English Renaissance, the age of William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Philip Sidney, Ben Jonson, John Donne, and John Milton, was one of the most brilliant periods in Western literary history for the production of great poetry. Yet the scope of its achievement is so varied that any effort to account for its multiplicity is inordinately challenging
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This era was the period of new ideas and new thinking. Various other works like fine arts endured support and assistance from the Queen. Due to the Queen's support and patron, the works of that time came to be known as 'Elizabethan'. The poetries and dramas were prospered more, in particular. Sir Wyatt brought Sonnet from Italy which was later popularized in England. Later, they gave a different style to the sonnets.
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-Women were not allowed to perform as there was the existence of
gender inequality. The males only played as females.
-The Wealthy people bought the best seats. Sometimes they even sat
on the stage itself.
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Epic Poetry
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Early English Prose Fiction is the perfect complement to English Poetry and English Drama. It contains prose versions of some of the poetry in those databases and includes many of the same authors. From linguistic scholars of Early Modern English to literary scholars to cultural historians, a wide variety of users will appreciate the wealth of information in this database.
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These type of plays were extremely popular during the Elizabethan and the Jacobean era. The term 'metaphysical poetry' was coined by Samuel Johnson. Some of the topics on which metaphysical poems are written are love, existence, life etc. Similie, metaphors, imagery and other literary elements are used in writing these poems.
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From 1603 writes masquerades for the court of King James I Stuart fulfilling his role as poet laureate since 1616. These masquerades, including The Satyr (1603), Masquerade of Beauty (1608) and Masquerade of the Queens (1609), were represented almost always in elaborate Italian stages
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During that time, a civil war was fought between the
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The age is named 'Puritan Age' because of the Puritan dominance in
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English actor Known on occasions as the Baron of Avon, Shakespeare is considered the most important writer in the English language and one of the most celebrated of universal literature
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There was a Civil war during that period. One group of
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This era is also known as the era of enlightenment. People in England would
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The first half of the 18th century was
marked by the preparation of Industrial revolution. The main social classes
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Two most famous writers of this period are Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith. Sheridan was a love
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This period was mainly a reaction against the philosophy of Enlightenment period that dominated much of European Philosophy. Individual achievements are highly valued. Many of the Romantic writers believed that people regardless of wealth or social class must be able to appreciate art and literature.
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The Victorian age was a time of great prosperity in the History of English
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movement that began in France in the 1840s, after the 1848 Revolution.
Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century. Realism revolted against the exotic subject matter and the exaggerated emotionalism and drama of the Romantic movement. -
England is known as the Edwardian age. It lasted less than a decade,his throne at England is known as the Edwardian age. It lasted less than a decade.
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Literature from various parts of the world started spreading. New writers were tried to impersonate the glory of British writers. They were not allowed to write freely. Post-Modernism - In post-modernism, basically the history of English Literature of 5 geo-locations are being studied.
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The poems forming, poetry has distinct literary forms. Some common English forms that you may recognize include the sonnet, blank verse, the ode, the ballad and even the limerick.
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British writer and dramatist, one of the few books in English.
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Philip Pullman was born in Norwich, England wrote two pieces of accompaniment to the trilogy, entitled Lyra's Oxford and Once Upon a Time in the North. A third complementary piece that Pullman refers to as the "green book" will expand on his character Will.
