BRITISH LITERATUREBRITISH LITERATURE

Historical PeriodsHistorical Periods

Old English literature (Anglo-Saxon)Old English literature (Anglo-Saxon) Middle English literatureMiddle English literature English RenaissanceEnglish Renaissance Period of Protectorate and the RestorationPeriod of Protectorate and the Restoration Classicism and EnlightenmentClassicism and Enlightenment RomanticismRomanticism Critical Realism (Victorian Age)Critical Realism (Victorian Age) The first half of the 20th centuryThe first half of the 20th century Modern British literatureModern British literature

Old English LiteratureOld English Literature

BeowulfBeowulf Caedmon (Caedmon´s Hymn)Caedmon (Caedmon´s Hymn) Bede Venerabilis (Ecclesiastical ….)Bede Venerabilis (Ecclesiastical ….)

Middle English LiteratureMiddle English Literature

Domesday Book (1083) – William´s tool to Domesday Book (1083) – William´s tool to rule over all Britainrule over all Britain

Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales – The Canterbury Tales William Caxton – book-printer; his workshop William Caxton – book-printer; his workshop

in Westminster printed the most important in Westminster printed the most important books of the periodbooks of the period

RenaissanceRenaissance The interest shifted from God to a manThe interest shifted from God to a man Elizabethan period – flourishing of the Elizabethan period – flourishing of the

colonial empaircolonial empair William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet,

Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing…, The Sonnets)About Nothing…, The Sonnets)

Christopher Marlow (The Tragical History Christopher Marlow (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus)of Doctor Faustus)

Sir Thomas More – The Utopia (written in Sir Thomas More – The Utopia (written in Latin about an island where people live in Latin about an island where people live in ideal peace and harmony)ideal peace and harmony)

Protectorate (1649-1660) Protectorate (1649-1660) and Restorationand Restoration

► John Milton: Paradise Lost (1663), John Milton: Paradise Lost (1663), Paradise Regained (1671)Paradise Regained (1671)

Milton supported the ideas of Milton supported the ideas of puritanism in literaturepuritanism in literature

►Samuel Butler – a satiristSamuel Butler – a satirist► John Donne – a poetJohn Donne – a poet

Classicism and Classicism and EnlightenmentEnlightenment

► Jonatan Swift – a great satirist; A Modest Jonatan Swift – a great satirist; A Modest Proposal, Gulliver´s TravelsProposal, Gulliver´s Travels

►Daniel Defoe – Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe►Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of English Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of English

Language (his phonetic symbols are Language (his phonetic symbols are used up-today)used up-today)

► John Gay – a dramatist; Beggar´s OperaJohn Gay – a dramatist; Beggar´s Opera►Alexander Pope – a great poetAlexander Pope – a great poet

RomanticismRomanticism

• William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experienceof Experience

• George Gordon Byron – Childe Harold´s George Gordon Byron – Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage, Don JuanPilgrimage, Don Juan

• Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab, Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab, Prometheus UnboundPrometheus Unbound

• Sir Walter Scott – Waverly, Ivanhoe, Rob Sir Walter Scott – Waverly, Ivanhoe, Rob RoyRoy

• Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (more Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (more realistic work though)realistic work though)

RealismRealism

Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby Hard Times, Great ExpectationsNicholas Nickleby Hard Times, Great Expectations

Emily BrontEmily Brontëë – Wuthering Heights – Wuthering Heights Charlotte BrontCharlotte Brontëë – Jane Eyre – Jane Eyre Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D´UrbervillesThomas Hardy – Tess of the D´Urbervilles Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island, Kidnapped,

The Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.HydeThe Strange Case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the

BaskervillesBaskervilles

The 1st half of the 20th c.

Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book Virginia Wolfe – To the Lighthouse George Orwell – Animal Farm Thomas Stearns Eliot – The Waste Land

Modern British literature Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim William Golding – Lord of the Flies J.R.R.Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings David Lodge – Changing Places, The British

Museum Is Falling Down Philip Larkin – a poet, The Less Deceived Ted Hughes Liverpool Poets: Brian Patten, Adrian Henri Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party