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typical features of the Elizabethan theatre, the Globe

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

• one of the greatest poets

• celebrated for his powerful and rhetoric poetry

• also published pamphlets defending civil and religious rights

• 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

= 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

Is known for his book ROBINSON CRUSOE

One of the most popular book for children

• black humor ans irony

• Satirical pamphlets

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

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

- 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

- 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

- 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

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

- He won Nobel Prize for literature (1925)

- Pygmalion (comedy)

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

-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.

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

- Nobel Prize 1969

• Waiting for Godot

• Endgame

• Breath

- born in Zlín

• The Coast of Utopia

• Arcadia

The Canterbury Tales

• The most famous work from Chaucer

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