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MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST: …
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AFTER THE
NORMAN CONQUEST: Literary production: many genres
POETRY
The Canterbury Tales
Masterpiece of Medieval literature; it's a collection of short stories and has a strong realistic accent
Romances
Born in France; themes: courtey love, chivalry, supernatural events and magic
There are 3 cycles: MATTER OF ROME, MATTER OF FRANCE and MATTER OF BRITAIN
Ballads
Anonimous poems accompanied with music; themes: actions of heroes, tragic or supernatural events
French replaced Old English as the language of poetry and literature and this led to the birth of MIDDLE AGES.
DRAMA
(14th and 15th centuries)
Main genre: Morality plays (plays characterised by the precense of allegories (Everyman) and a strong moral tone
(13th and 14th centuries)
Main genre: Miracle plays like Secunda Pastorum (a play representing the nativity scene in comic terms
PROSE
Geoffrey of Monmouth
He wrote the Historia Regum Britanniae (1137), a reconstruction of the mythical and historical origins of Britain
Sir Thomas Malory
His masterpiece is Le Morte D'Arthur, a collection of stories related to King Arthur