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Bases of English Literature (The Renaissance (Intellectual Revolution (New…
Bases of English Literature
Medieval Times
From Anglo-Saxons
= XIV -XV centuries
Old English
Anglo-Saxon ==> Anglo Norman
=
Alliterative Verse
Middle English
12 - 14th century
10 style line + iambic pentametre
G. Chaucer,
Canterbury Tales
= prose + poetry
Medieval Times ==> Renaissance
Poems of
courtly love
Moralizing topics
religious prose
Arthurian legends = Middle English Drama
The Renaissance
1550 - 1660
Intellectual Revolution
New humanism
New drawing of cosmos
Copernicus, heliocentrism system
Social class conditions change
Continental Europe development of the arts and philosophy
New learning =
Erasmus
schooling
The Elizabethan Drama
=> Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
The Restoration
end of XVII (1660 - 1700)
Political Context
Cromwellian Republic ( 1642 - 1660) - Chales II
Republicans (Puritans) VS Royalists
Decade of Civil War
Licensing Act (press censorship - 1662)
Plague : 1665 + Great Fire (1666)
Production
Poetry
=
Paradise Lost
, Milton
Philosophy
:
Essay concerning Human Understanding
, Lock
Novel
= *Gulliver's Travels, 1726