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History of English Literature

  • HISTORY OF LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

    MARELVIS EPALZA BELTRAN
    DC. 44157360
    OPEN AND DISTANCE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    ENGLISH LITERATURE
  • The Venerable Bede

    The Venerable Bede, in his monastery in Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
  • Beowulf

    Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mixes Scandinavian legends with the Anglo and Saxon experience in England
  • Eddas

    The material of the Eddas, which takes shape in Iceland, is derived from earlier sources in Norway, Great Britain, and Burgundy
  • ENGLISH ANGLO SAJÓN

    ENGLISH ANGLO SAJÓN

    the first words in English Scythians in an Anglo-Saxon dialect known as ancient English appeared in the early middle ages.
  • The CADMON HIMNO

    The CADMON HIMNO

    It is the oldest known text of this stage
  • Piers Plowman

    Piers Plowman

    (written c. 1370–90) or Visio Willelmi de Petro Ploughman (William's Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.
  • SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT

    From a still unknown author, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight follows a classic quest formula, with a knight receiving a challenge, going out on a journey to meet that challenge, and returning home to report on his quest
  • THE CANTERBURY TALES

    THE CANTERBURY TALES

    By Geoffrey Chaucer, who begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death in 1400
  • RICHARD III

    RICHARD III

    Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593.
  • VOLPONE

    VOLPONE

    By Ben Johnson A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is ranked among the finest Jacobean era comedies
  • THE FAERIE QUEENE

    THE FAERIE QUEENE

    By Edmund Spencer. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united medieval romance and renaissance epic to expound the glory of the Virgin Queen.
  • THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

    THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

    By Robert Louis Stevenson
  • PETER PAN

    PETER PAN

    By J.M Barrie.
  • THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

    THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

    By William Shakespeare