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1 BRITISH LITERATURE

2 Historical Periods Old English literature (Anglo-Saxon)
Middle English literature English Renaissance Period of Protectorate and the Restoration Classicism and Enlightenment Romanticism Critical Realism (Victorian Age) The first half of the 20th century Modern British literature

3 Old English Literature
Beowulf Caedmon (Caedmon´s Hymn) Bede Venerabilis (Ecclesiastical ….)

4 Middle English Literature
Domesday Book (1083) – William´s tool to rule over all Britain Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales William Caxton – book-printer; his workshop in Westminster printed the most important books of the period

5 Renaissance The interest shifted from God to a man
Elizabethan period – flourishing of the colonial empair William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing…, The Sonnets) Christopher Marlow (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) Sir Thomas More – The Utopia (written in Latin about an island where people live in ideal peace and harmony)

6 Protectorate (1649-1660) and Restoration
John Milton: Paradise Lost (1663), Paradise Regained (1671) Milton supported the ideas of puritanism in literature Samuel Butler – a satirist John Donne – a poet

7 Classicism and Enlightenment
Jonatan Swift – a great satirist; A Modest Proposal, Gulliver´s Travels Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of English Language (his phonetic symbols are used up-today) John Gay – a dramatist; Beggar´s Opera Alexander Pope – a great poet

8 Romanticism William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
George Gordon Byron – Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage, Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound Sir Walter Scott – Waverly, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (more realistic work though)

9 Realism Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby Hard Times, Great Expectations Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D´Urbervilles Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles

10 The 1st half of the 20th c. Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book
Virginia Wolfe – To the Lighthouse George Orwell – Animal Farm Thomas Stearns Eliot – The Waste Land

11 Modern British literature
Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim William Golding – Lord of the Flies J.R.R.Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings David Lodge – Changing Places, The British Museum Is Falling Down Philip Larkin – a poet, The Less Deceived Ted Hughes Liverpool Poets: Brian Patten, Adrian Henri Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party

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