Gawain and the green knight

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

  • Renaissance
    Jan 1, 1476

    Renaissance

    Interest in human behavior as the main theme of the works
    Poetry, drama and prose
  • Elizabethan literature
    Jan 1, 1560

    Elizabethan literature

    William Shakespeare
    elaborate language and for its allusions to the themes of classical mythology
  • Jacobite literature

    Jacobite literature

    John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
    theatrical style in relation to the works of revenge
  • Restoration Literature

    Restoration Literature

    John Wilmo
    The most outstanding poetic form was satire. Generally, satires were published anonymously to avoid serious problems for the author, such as the "defamation law".

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