Brief history of fantasy

By twiggy :)

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream was written by William Shakespeare in1595-96

  • Gulliver's Travel was written by Jonathan Swift in in 1726

  • The Grim brothers wrote fairytales like Cinderella, Snow White and Rumplestiltskinin 1812-1885

  • Lewis Carroll wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865

  • William Morris wrote 'The Wood Beyond the World in 1894

  • The gothic horror 'Dracular' was written in 1897 by Bram Stoker

  • In 1897 Georges Melies wrote 'The Bewitched Inn'

  • Horror films such as king kong amoung other films where made in the 1930's

  • Also in the 1930's Walt Disney Studios made many family films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937

  • The Thief of Bagdad made 1940

  • The Lord of the Rings trilogy was written in 1954.

  • Early sci-fi TV anthologies such as The Twilight Zone made from1959-64

  • The Outer Limits made from 1963-65

  • Bewitched the T.V series was made in 1964-72

  • The Munsters made from 1964-66

  • The Addams Family made from 1964-66

  • I Dream of Jeannie another T.V series made from1965-70

  • Si-fi movies such as Batman took off in 1966-68

  • Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game released in 1974

  • In 1977 Terry Brooks wrote Sword of Shannara

  • the 1980s saw a sword & sorcery boom that was also closely associated with the popular fantasy literature of the day.

  • In 1981 movies like John Boorman's Excalibur and the campy Conan the Barbarian starring Arnold Schwarzenegger kicked off the craze

  • British fantasies The Prisoner 1967-68

  • The Legendary Journeys made from 1994-99 starring Kevin Sorbo and spin-off Xena

  • Warrior Princes made from 1995-2001 starring Lucy Lawless

  • Joss Whedon's hit supernatural fantasies Buffy the Vampire Slayer 1997-2003 and Angel 1999-2004

  • Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy was made fr2001-03