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French romancers.
Celtics influence.
Author: Tennyson.
Examples: Passing of Arthur.
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Anglo-Saxon Poetry.
Parallelism, alliteration, absense of rhyme, compound words, diffuse style.
Authors: Alfred. Edgar and Elfric.
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Latin and French influence.
The Romantic Note.
The Religious Note.
Ballad Poetry.
Authors: William Langland
Examples:
Saxon Chronicle.
The Morte d' Arthur.
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Written by Orm, a monk, it is a work of biblical exegesis.
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Each nation expressed in its own way: Italy, Germany, England.
Authors: Roger Ascham. Sir John Cheke. Nicholas Udall.
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First stage: The Play. Mysteries. Examples: Miracle Plays.
Second stage They play of Noah. The Pageants and May Games.
Third stage: The Morality and Interlude
Examples: Everyman. The Four P's of Heywood.
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The first period.
Romeo and Juliet (1592).
The Merchant of Venice (1594).
Venice (1594).
The second period.
The Taming of the Shrew (1595).
As You Like It (1600).
The Third Period. (1600-08). All's Well and Ends Well (1595). Measue of Measure (1604).
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It is the story of a boy who meets a girl; girl's family hates boy's family; boy's family hates girl's family; boy kills girl's cousin; boy and girl kill themselves.
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It is a play in which a merchant in Venice named Antonio defaults on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender, Shylock.
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It is a comedy about a framing device, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself.
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It is a comedy of Helena, an orphan daughter of a famous physician.
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It is a comedy about Rosalind, who flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden.
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It is a tragedy about the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic.
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Literary fashion fluctuation.
Spiritual and material expansion.
Milton's prose.
Poetry.
Authors: William Congreve, William Wycherley, George Farquhar, Thomas Hobbes.
Examples: Leviathan, Lives, Fable of the Bees. The Aeropagitica. -
It is a landmark mock-heroic narrative poem.
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Emotional sensitiveness.
Romantic revival.
Johnson and the Eighteenth Century Novelists.
The Novel (Samuel Richardson).
Golsmith and Johnson.
Authors: Hume, Robertso, Gibbon, Adam Smith, Chalmers, Samuel Richardson. Edmund Burke. -
Romanticism.
The Spiritualising of Nature.
The Humanising of Social Life.
Examples: Lyrical Balladas, The Prelude.
Reviews. Magazines. Journals.
Authors: William Wordsworth. Francis Jeffrey, Sydney Smith, Professor Wilson. -
It is the story of the Western civilization from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium.
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The Democratic Note. The Scientific Note.
The Pre-Raphaelite School Characteristics.
Humour and Satire.
Philosophic Poetry.
The Novel of Character.
Realistic Fiction.
Romance and Realism.
Authors: Dante Gabriel Rosseti, Christina Rosetti, Robert Buchanan.
Examples: City of Dreadful Night. Light verse. Ingoldsby Legends. The Athenoeum.
