Unit 1 - Task 2 - Chronological Overview - Evaluation Rubric and Activity Submission Jose Luis Sanchez Perdomo
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ANGLO SAXON ENGLAND, ANGLO NORMAN ENGLAND
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Gawain-poet - Sir Gawain and the Green KnightGeoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury TalesWilliam Langland –The Vision of Piers PlowmanEveryman(after 1485) (morality play)
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The Defense of PoesyMichael Drayton Christopher Marlowe –Doctor Faustus(play), Tamburlaine (play) William Shakespeare –Sonnets; Plays –(tragedies) Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear; (comedies) The Merchant of Venice
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John Donne –The Flea (poem) Ben Jonson –Volpone, the Fox(play), Song: To Celia(poem) John Webster –The Duchess of Malfi(play), The White Devil(play) Francis Bacon –Essays; The New Atlantis Thomas Hobbes –Leviathan(prose) George Herbert –The Altar (poem) Henry Vaughan (metaphysical poet
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Samuel Pepys –The DiaryJohn Bunyan –The Pilgrim’s ProgressJohn Locke –essays Sir Isaac Newton William Congreve –The Way of the World (play) Daniel Defoe –Robinson Crusoe Samuel Richardson –Pamela Henry Fielding –Shamela, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
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human knowledge consists of impressions and ideas formed in the
individual’s mind
2. introduction of Gothic elements and terror/horror stories and novels -
Themes/Content/Influences:1. conflict between those in power and the common masses oflaborers and the poor2. shocking life of sweatshops and urban poor is highlighted inliterature to insist on reform3. country versus city life4. sexual discretion (or lack of it
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1. British Empire loses 1 million soldiers to World War I2. Winston Churchill leads Britain through WW II, and the Germansbomb England directly3. British colonies demand independence
