Ages in English Literature (When)

Question 1

Early Tudor Age

Answer 1

1500 - 1557
within the Renaissance

Question 2

Elizabethan Age

Answer 2

1558 - 1603
within the Renaissance

Question 3

Jacobean Age

Answer 3

1603 - 1625 (reign of James I)
within the Renaissance

Question 4

Caroline Age

Answer 4

1625 - 1642 (reign of Charles I)
within the Renaissance

Question 5

Commonwealth Interregnum

Answer 5

1649 (Charles I’s execution) - 1660 (restoration of monarchy under Charles II)
within the Renaissance

Question 6

Restoration Age

Answer 6

1660 (restoration of Stuarts to the throne) - 1700
within the Neoclassic Period

Question 7

Augustan Age

Answer 7

1700 - 1750
within the Neoclassic Period

Question 8

Age of Johnson (Age of Sensibility)

Answer 8

1750 - 1798
within the Neoclassic Period

Question 9

Age of the Romantic Movement

Answer 9

1798 (publication of Lyrical Ballads) - 1832 (death of Scott)
within the Romantic Period

Question 10

Early Victorian Age

Answer 10

1832 - 1870
within the Romantic Period

Question 11

Late Victorian Age

Answer 11

1870 - 1901 (death of Queen Victoria)
within the Realistic Period

Question 12

Edwardian Age

Answer 12

(named for Edward VII, ruled 1901-1910)
1901 (death of Victoria) - 1914 (outbreak of WWI)
within the Realistic Period (also concurrent with Celtic Renaissance)

Question 13

Diminishing Age in English Literature

Answer 13

1940 (WWII) - 1965
within the Modern/Modernist Period