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time period

historical context

typical features, ideas

main representative (life, work - key facts)

other writers

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old English literature

middle English literature (medieval times)

modern English literature: Elizabethan Era, Age of Reason, Romanticism, Realism, the 20th century (British playwrights, detective story writers…)

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William Shakespeare – Shakespeare´s life and the era he lived in, his masterpieces, Elizabethan theatre (typical features etc.)

other famous playwrights: O. Wilde, G. B. Shaw, T. Stoppard…

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Beowulf

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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W. Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe

typical features of the Elizabethan theatre, the Globe

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John Milton

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Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift

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Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Lord George Gordon Byron

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Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy

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Rudyard Kipling, William Golding, J. R. R. Tolkien, George Orwell, J. K. Rowling

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie

the genre of detective story, typical features, main characters...

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Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard

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1608 – 1674

one of the greatest poets

celebrated for his powerful and rhetoric poetry

also published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights

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William Shakespear (1564-1616)

English playwright, poet and actor

He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon

Called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"

Greatest writer in english history

He wrote 39 plays, 154 sonnets

He is the most influencial writer in history - his works are still studied and reinterpreted

Works:

Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Mackbeth, King Lear

Commedies: Midsummer night´s dream, The Tamming of the shrew, The merchant of Venice

Historical plays: Julius Caesar, Henry III.

Poetry: Sonnets

Sonnet -> a fourteen-line poem

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

English plawright, poet

He was a member of a secret society

! there were rumors of associations interested in witchcraft and satanic practices

a spy for Queen Elizabeth II -> because of his boisterous nature was killed by a murderer

Works:

Play: The tragical history od doctor Faust, A Jew from Malta, Tamerlane the Great, Edward II

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his famous epic poem

is about revolt of Satan against Heaven and God, who is presented as despotic and unjust in his treatment of Satan. Satan in his discussions with the fallen angels supports the priciples of independence and freedom.

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(Ema)

= epoch in the history of England, in the Tudor period, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I

(1533 - 1603)

- The “Virgin queen”

- Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

- Queen of England and Ireland from 1558 till her death

- Last monarch of the House of Tudor

- When she ruled, she was more moderate than her father and siblings

- Many of her teeth went black, due to her addiction to sweetst

Elizabethan theatre

performed in daylight

only men could performed there

men played women’s roles

The Globe

Was a theatre in London

William Shakespeare’s plays were performed there

First theater building was built in 1599, but in year 1613 burned down.

Second building was built in year 1614 and demolished in 1644.

The building caught fire due to a cannon shot during the performance when the thatched roof caught fire

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Daniel Defoe (1660 - 1731)

Is known for his book ROBINSON CRUSOE

One of the most popular book for children

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Johnathan Swift (1667 - 1745)

black humor ans irony

Satirical pamphlets

Famous work - Gulliver’s travels - satire on british society

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20th century until now

Topics were influenced by the historical features

It was mainly the Great Soviet Revolution (1917), or one of the two world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45)

Fantasy became really popural - Fantasy is a literature genre that mainly contains mythical features, new world or so

allegory is also used quite often

main author of the first theme I mentioned is George Orwell and his work Animal farm (dystopical novel, allegory) and it's about the Soviet Revolution

Fantasy genre includes authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings series and J. K. Rowling - Harry Potter

Kipling wrote an adventurous novel called The book of jungle

William Golding wrote allegorical drama called The Lord of flies

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-  is an Old English epic poem written by an unknown writer in the 8th century

- It tells story about Danish king and his kingdom which is attacked by a monster

- Beowulf, nephew of a king, heard of this, crosses the sea from Scandinavia to help the uncle and he kills the monster

- After mother of this monster attacks, Beowulf and Beowulf kills her too

- The second part takes place after some years

- When Beowulf returns home he become the king

- He fights with a dragon and kills him but he dies too

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-Literature at the end of the 18th century turned again to sentiments, traditions, and exotic settings

- It was influenced by the industrial revolution, morals, emotions and the supernatural

-At this time, the so-called the Lake poets were created (they were poets around the Lake District - G. G. Byron, P. B. Shelley)

-typical features- historical topics, love, nature

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)

-represents the so−called "Revolutionary Romantics

-His work is concerned with the freedom of the individual as well as nations (The Prisoners of Chillon).

- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)

-Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poets

- the founder of historical novel

- took for his novels themes from Scottish history (Waverly, Rob Roy) and from English history (Ivanhoe). Themes of horror and mystery appeared in prose called "Gothic novels"

Percy Bysshe Shelley

- poet

- represent revolutionary romanticism, his work contain social criticism

-Prometheus Unbound

Jane Austen

- romantic prose writer

- Pride and Prejudice = romantic novel which shows the resulting conflict between reason and feelings

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- Irish poet and playwright

- He was criticized by London society and even put to prison for homosexuality

- His plays were witty and sarcastic and many portrayed the life of the upper classes (The Importance of Being

Earnest)

- Wilde wrote many stories for children including The Happy Prince and The Canterville Ghost

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- He was a playwright, prose-writer and journalist

- He wanted to shock people, looking at moral problems of society

- He won Nobel Prize for literature (1925)

- Pygmalion (comedy)

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1837-1901

in that period Queen Victoria ruled

society becomes more repressed and religious

country becomes more democratic

writers were describing (critised) English society with all its characters (poor and rich part of society)

famous writers: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Emily and Charlotte Bronté

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

English writer

most popular author of victorian novel

he critised social conditions

"We live in two worlds, the rich and the poor".

heroes are often poor children

describing life in London

Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

English writer

he critised social system of that time

describing life in countryside

The Return of the Native

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-English novelist, playwright and poet.

-She studied singing and playing on piano in Paris.

-She worked as a voluntary nurse during the 1st and 2nd world wars.

-in 1920s she became a famous and succesful autor of detective literature.

-she created a figure of the famous detective Hercule Poirot.

-She wrote: The Mysterious Affair at Styles,The Murder on the Links, The Murder, On Orient Express, The Mousetrap.

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-He came from an english catholic familly.

-He studied Medicine.

-He wrote many different literature styles (historic novels, playwrights, poems, derective literature)

-He is most famous for Stories Of Sherlock Holmes.

-He also wrote politics texts.

-Other texts: The white company, The lost world, The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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- Irish novelist and playwright

- One of the great names of the “Theatre of the Absurd”

- Nobel Prize 1969

Waiting for Godot

Endgame

Breath

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- British screenwriter and playwright

- born in Zlín

The Coast of Utopia

Arcadia

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Edgar Allan Poe first discovered this literary genre

The first detective story "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841

the main character is Dupin - an eccentric amateur detective

Is a literary form focused on solving a mystery or crime

1. There is almost always a central character who is solving the mystery or the crime

2. Detective stories often begin with an unexplained crime

3. A detective goes through evidence, gathers information and analyzes it to uncover the truth

4. The authors often give false clues and unexpected twists

5. The story usually ends with the identity of the criminal revealed and an explanation of how the crime happened

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English poet

Geoffrey Chaucer was born in London

He lived in the 14th century

,, father of English literature ''

One of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages

His work often touch on themes of love, social criticism and relationships

The Canterbury Tales

The most famous work from Chaucer

collection of 24 stories told by a group of pilgrims traveling to Canterbury

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