History of Brit Lit Flashcards
but though the whole of Ireland was politically part of the United Kingdom between
January 1801 and December 1922
The island that contains England, Scotland, and Wales has been known as
Britain
English as the national language had its beginnings with the
Anglo Saxon Invasion
Kingdom of Great Britain came into existence.
After not until 1707 with a treaty between England and Scotland,
he impact of Irish nationalism led to the partition of the island of Ireland in
1921
Tribes
jutes + Saxons + angles
Geramic tribes
Jutes and Angles
Beowulf set in
Scandanavia
Anglo-Saxon authors
Cædmon, Bede, Alfred the Great, and Cynewulf. Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known.[12] Cædmon’s only known surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn,
Battle of Maldon is a
Chronicle
Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur
(1485)
Wyclif’s bible era
1382 to 1395.
Piers Plowman (written c. 1360–1387)’s full name and writer
(William’s Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
is a late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance. - introduced beheading game
Canterbury tale written
middle English
Gower is remembered primarily for three major works,
the Mirroir de l’Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and, Middle English respectively,
_____________ is known for writing The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.
Margery kempe
Mummer’s plays
themes such as Saint George and the Dragon and Robin Hood., alos based on Morris Dance
Everyman,
is a late 15th-century English morality play.
Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress
1678
the sonnet form was introduced into English by___________ and developed by_______________
Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century, and developed by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,
___________ introduced blank verse in English with the translation of ____________________________
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1516/1517 – 1547), who also introduced blank verse into England, with his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid
The first book printed in English, William Caxton’s own translation of ____________, was printed abroad in _____
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, 1473
_____________ is a work of fiction and political philosophy by _______________published in 1516.
Utopia, Thomas More
The book, written in_____________ is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.
Latin
Elizabethan era:
1558–1603
The Renaissance:
1485 –1660
________________ was the author of The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.
Sir Edmund Spenser (1555–99
The works of____________ a poet, courtier and soldier, include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poetry, and Arcadia.
Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
James I
(1603–25)
John Florio
the linguist in James 1 court and influence on Shakespeare
The earliest Elizabethan plays include ___________, by Sackville and Norton, and Thomas Kyd’s (1558–94) revenge tragedy _____________
Gorboduc (1561), The Spanish Tragedy (1592).
The Spanish Tragedy genre
Revenge Drama
was the first person to translate Euripides into English.
Jane Lumley (1537–1578)
Jacobean period
1603-1625
problem plays are three plays that William Shakespeare wrote between the late 1590s and the first years of the seventeenth century, these are-
All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida.
Shakespeare’s tragedies-
King Lear and Antony Cleopatra
shakespear’s first folio
1623
Shakespear’s tragic comedy
“The Winter’s Tale,” “Cymbeline,” “The Tempest,” and “The Merchant of Venice.”
problem plays are associated with
Henrick Ibsen
_________ also coined a fifth category, the “problem play,”
F.S. Boas
important figures in Elizabethan theatre include
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 1632), John Fletcher (1579–1625) and Francis Beaumont
Leading dramatist and poet of Jacobean Age
Ben Jonson
Ben Jonson’s plays
Volpone (1605 or 1606) and Bartholomew Fair (1614).
Jacobean era’s plays _______________ was popularized by _______________ and _____________
Revenge plays,
Thomas Kyd and John Webster
Revenge Tragedies-
The White Devil (1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (1613)
The Changeling written by
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Shakespeare’s collection of__________by sonnets,
154
Major metaphysical poets
John Donne, George Herbert
____________, rival poet of ___________, known for the Homer’s translation of __________
George Chapman, rival poet of Shakespeare, known for the Homer’s translation of Illiad and Odyssey
Philosopher __________________ wrote the utopian novel _______________, and coined the phrase “____________________”.
Philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) wrote the utopian novel New Atlantis, and coined the phrase “Knowledge is Power”.
__________________The Man in the Moone recounts an imaginary voyage to the moon and is now regarded as the first work of science fiction in English literature.
Francis Godwin’s
Authorized King James Version of the Bible time span
started in 1604 and completed in 1611
The Book of Common Prayer
(1549)
there was a second generation of metaphysical poets, consisting of
Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637–1674) and Henry Vaughan
Cavalier poets, who were inspired by Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling
Cavalier works make use of allegory and classical allusions and are influenced by Latin authors
Horace, Cicero, and Ovid.[39]
John Milton
L’Allegro, 1631; Il Penseroso, 1634; Comus (a masque), 1638; and Lycidas, (1638). His later major works are: Paradise Regained, 1671; Samson Agonistes, 1671. Areopagitica (1644),
