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THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD
In this time was used the anglo saxon language. A representative work was the anonymous epic called "Beowulf." In this English was knew beautiful elegies as "The Wanderer" and "The Seafarer." The poetry was alternative and used the Kenning that is a compressed metaphor called Whale - road or Night - stalker. One of the authors most significant of this period is Tolkien. -
750
THE GREEK DRAMA PERIOD
For the Greeks the drama or tragedie stories were starring by characters biggest than the mortals, that is the Greek gods and the topics were about the fight between the kings and the nobles. These plays were based in the stories as "The Odissey" and "The Lliad." The plays most outstanding this period were "Antigone" and "Edipo King" by Sófocles and "Pometheus Boud" and "The Oresteia" by Esquilo. -
1000
THE DRAMA PERIOD
The playwright greatest and most influential was William Shakespeare with their works "Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Otelo" that talk of themes about comedies, tragedies and stories. Other author was Oscar Wilde who made a play satirical called "The important of Being Earnest." -
1000
THE BRITISH LITERATURE PERIOD
The works of William Shakespeare were divided into three headings:
Comedies: The people cheat and used the costume for get the true love. Tragedies: A hero ends up causing the death from himself and of others. Stories: The protagonist is a ex king that for their weaknesses disappear.
Others authors were John Donne with their works "Holy sonnets" and "Death, don't be proud" and John Milton with th "Lost -Paradise." Also, were the auhtors Henrick Ibsen, Arthur Miller, John Webster and Marlow. -
1066
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
The midde English is the mix between the French and Anglo saxon. The british poet Geoffrey Chaucer contributed with his "Canterbury Tales" because the tales were wrote in a rhythm of the satirical wit, this author was the precursor of this period. Also, the authors William Shakespeare that wrote some sonnets called "Common Core" and John Donne that created the methaphysical poetry where He used paradoxical images for generate new prospects. -
1066
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
In this period arose the medieval romance that caught new tematics and ideals about the feudalism, love polite, courtesy, chivalry and the protestant reformation. -
1500
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
This period cosidered that the man is the center of the universe and were made epic poems and dramas.
The works most significant was "The prince" by Nicolás Maquiavelo y "Macbeth" by Shakespeare. The writers more important were Spenser, Sidney, Maquiavelo, Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, who wrote "Doctor Faustos." -
PROTESTANT PERIOD
The epic poems and the dramas were two important topics in this time. The authors very important were John Bunyan with his play "Pilgrim's progress" and John Milton with his epic poem "Paradise Lost" -
ILUSTRATION ERA
In this period arose the essays, the satire and the first examples of the novel, narrative in prose based on a realist enviorenment and in three - dimensional characters.
The topics that appeared in the essays and satire were the justice, politician, science, technology progress and education. The works as "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe, "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding They created the novel. -
ILUSTRATION ERA
The authors Samuel Johnson, Joseph Addison and Richar Steele developed the essays as a form of influential art. Also, the essayist Chesterton wrote critic literature and social about observations of history, politics, economy, philosophy and theology. The essayist George Orwell in his works "Politics and the English Language" and "Shooting and Elephant" He commented about the patriotism and the war. -
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
The authors wrote about the life, the love and the nature. Some authors considered that the life was disappointing so They wrote melancholic works. The writers as Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats uthor of the “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” where They had a relationship with the imagination and the nature.
William Wordworth wrote a poem called "The world is too much with us, late and soon." Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." -
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
The novels best known that were wrote in this time were "Proud and Prejudice" by Jane Austen and "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte where They talked topics about the woman, the poverty and the upper and middle class. -
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
The topics of this period were the adventures and the sea. The novels most representative were "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson and "Robinson Cruose" by Daniel Dafoe. In addition, the love poems of a saga called "Idylls of the King" by Elizabeth and Robert Browning. -
POSTWAR PERIOD
This literature focused on themes social and of aesthetic. A famous play this period was "The Wizard of Oz" by Frank Baum. -
THE MODERN PERIOD
Is a movement which is characterized by stylistic experimentation and the questioning of traditional values. In addition, this period introduced innovations in the stream of the conscience, the unreliable narrator and in the stories impulse by the psychology. The authors William Butther, Virginia Woolfe, Jane Joyce and Lawrence did writings about the death and the disillu-sionment. They were the ones strarted to create new froms literary. -
THE MODERN PERIOD
The modernists were worry by the uncertainty and the difficulty of the world of the postwar and They were influenced by the ideas of Sigmund Freud. A representative work was "Blue" by Rubén Darío. -
THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
The stories was based on reality and had a believable plot. This literature was focused in the more characters than in the history plot. An important author in this period is Gabriel García Marquéz with his works of "The leaf litter" (1955), "One hundred years of solitude" (1967), "A chronicle of a Death Foretold" (1981) y "Love in times of cholera" (1985).