British Literature

By keithb2012
  • Period: Apr 25, 600 to Apr 25, 1200

    Old English (Anglo-Saxon)

  • Period: Apr 25, 1200 to Apr 25, 1500

    Middle English (Medieval Period)

  • Chaucer
    Apr 25, 1343

    Chaucer

    Geoffrey Chaucer is born.
  • Bible
    Apr 23, 1381

    Bible

    Bible first translated into English.
  • Canterbury Tales
    Apr 23, 1386

    Canterbury Tales

    Chaucer begins writing The Canterbury Tales.
  • Gutenberg
    Apr 23, 1450

    Gutenberg

    Gutenberg invents the Printing Press.
  • Morte d'Arthur
    Apr 23, 1470

    Morte d'Arthur

    Thomas Malory writes Morte d'Arthur.
  • Period: Apr 25, 1500 to

    The English Renaissance

  • Period: Apr 25, 1558 to

    Elizabethan Period

  • Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe

    William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe are born.
  • Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    First printed version of Romeo and Juliet.
  • Julius Caesar

    Julius Caesar

    The Shakespearan play Julius Caesar is written.
  • Macbeth

    Macbeth

    Macbeth is written. (Believed to be written between 1603 and 1607)
  • Period: to

    Jacobean Period

  • Shakespeare

    Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare dies.
  • William Blake

    William Blake

    William Blake is born.
  • Period: to

    Romanticism

  • Blake

    Blake

    Songs of Experience collection by William Blake is first published.
  • Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley

    Mary Shelley is born.
  • Beowulf

    Beowulf

    First printed edition of Beowulf by the Icelandic scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin.
  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

    Frankenstein was first published anonymously in London.
  • Period: to

    Victorian Period

  • Period: to

    Modern Period

  • Blake

    Blake

    Songs of Innocence published in 1789.
  • Beowulf

    Beowulf

    Beowulf is written by an anonymous poet. (Believed to be written between the 8th and 11th centuries)