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In this period, literature took importance when Celtics took part of England
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It finished when Norman France conquered England
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Here, Modern English was born and it changed some things about Old English Era
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This period is known as the "Early Period. It was divided into 4 parts:
1. The Elizabethan Age, where English drama was in gauge.
2. The Jacobean Age.
3. The Caroline Age.
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It was divided into 3 parts:
1. The Restoration: It consists in showing works in the puritanical age, especially in the theatre.
2. The Augustan Age: In this time, Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift imitated the Augustans and Lady Mary Wortley changed the stereotypes about female roles in arts.
3. The Age of Sensibility: It was an era where Neoclassicism was born. -
It has been a controversial period because some thinkers do not know when it really started. Some of them have considered it started in French Revolution, others think it has started immediately when Sensibility Age has finished.
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Due to Queen Victoria, this era has this name. In this period there was a great impact in many social fields as sciences, religion and economics and it had great fluency of the Romantic Period, mainly in literature.
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It was a short period which ended with the First World War. Here, there were some notable poets and novelists like Joseph Conrad, Henry James and Ford Madox and dramatists like James Berrie, George Shaw and John Galsworthy.
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It refers to the period of George V and here there were some highlighted Georgian poets like Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield and Rupert Brooke
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It was carried out when the First World War started where the essence of drama, narrative and verse was the sensation. Some important writers of this period were: Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and Dylan Thomas.
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It started when II World War has finished. This was the era of criticism and some important writers of this age were: Samuel Beckett, Anthony Burgess and Iain Banks.