History of Brit Lit

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but though the whole of Ireland was politically part of the United Kingdom between

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January 1801 and December 1922

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The island that contains England, Scotland, and Wales has been known as

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Britain

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English as the national language had its beginnings with the

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Anglo Saxon Invasion

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Kingdom of Great Britain came into existence.

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After not until 1707 with a treaty between England and Scotland,

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he impact of Irish nationalism led to the partition of the island of Ireland in

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1921

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Tribes

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jutes + Saxons + angles

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Geramic tribes

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Jutes and Angles

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Beowulf set in

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Scandanavia

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Anglo-Saxon authors

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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,

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Battle of Maldon is a

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Chronicle

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Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur

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(1485)

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Wyclif’s bible era

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1382 to 1395.

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Piers Plowman (written c. 1360–1387)’s full name and writer

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(William’s Vision of Piers Plowman) is a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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is a late-14th-century Middle English alliterative romance. - introduced beheading game

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Canterbury tale written

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middle English

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Gower is remembered primarily for three major works,

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the Mirroir de l’Omme, Vox Clamantis, and Confessio Amantis, three long poems written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and, Middle English respectively,

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_____________ is known for writing The Book of Margery Kempe, a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language.

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Margery kempe

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Mummer’s plays

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themes such as Saint George and the Dragon and Robin Hood., alos based on Morris Dance

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Everyman,

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is a late 15th-century English morality play.

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Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress

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1678

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the sonnet form was introduced into English by___________ and developed by_______________

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Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century, and developed by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,

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___________ introduced blank verse in English with the translation of ____________________________

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Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, (1516/1517 – 1547), who also introduced blank verse into England, with his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid

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The first book printed in English, William Caxton’s own translation of ____________, was printed abroad in _____

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Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, 1473

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_____________ is a work of fiction and political philosophy by _______________published in 1516.

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Utopia, Thomas More

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The book, written in_____________ is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs.

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Latin

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Elizabethan era:

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1558–1603

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The Renaissance:

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1485 –1660

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________________ was the author of The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I.

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Sir Edmund Spenser (1555–99

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The works of____________ a poet, courtier and soldier, include Astrophel and Stella, The Defence of Poetry, and Arcadia.

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Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

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James I

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(1603–25)

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John Florio

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the linguist in James 1 court and influence on Shakespeare

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The earliest Elizabethan plays include ___________, by Sackville and Norton, and Thomas Kyd’s (1558–94) revenge tragedy _____________

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Gorboduc (1561), The Spanish Tragedy (1592).

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The Spanish Tragedy genre

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Revenge Drama

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was the first person to translate Euripides into English.

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Jane Lumley (1537–1578)

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Jacobean period

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1603-1625

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problem plays are three plays that William Shakespeare wrote between the late 1590s and the first years of the seventeenth century, these are-

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All’s Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida.

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Shakespeare’s tragedies-

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King Lear and Antony Cleopatra

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shakespear’s first folio

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1623

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Shakespear’s tragic comedy

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“The Winter’s Tale,” “Cymbeline,” “The Tempest,” and “The Merchant of Venice.”

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problem plays are associated with

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Henrick Ibsen

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_________ also coined a fifth category, the “problem play,”

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F.S. Boas

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important figures in Elizabethan theatre include

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Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593), Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 – 1632), John Fletcher (1579–1625) and Francis Beaumont

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Leading dramatist and poet of Jacobean Age

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Ben Jonson

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Ben Jonson’s plays

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Volpone (1605 or 1606) and Bartholomew Fair (1614).

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Jacobean era’s plays _______________ was popularized by _______________ and _____________

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Revenge plays,

Thomas Kyd and John Webster

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Revenge Tragedies-

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The White Devil (1612) and The Duchess of Malfi (1613)

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The Changeling written by

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Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.

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Shakespeare’s collection of__________by sonnets,

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154

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Major metaphysical poets

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John Donne, George Herbert

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____________, rival poet of ___________, known for the Homer’s translation of __________

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George Chapman, rival poet of Shakespeare, known for the Homer’s translation of Illiad and Odyssey

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Philosopher __________________ wrote the utopian novel _______________, and coined the phrase “____________________”.

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Philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) wrote the utopian novel New Atlantis, and coined the phrase “Knowledge is Power”.

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__________________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.

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Francis Godwin’s

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Authorized King James Version of the Bible time span

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started in 1604 and completed in 1611

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The Book of Common Prayer

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(1549)

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there was a second generation of metaphysical poets, consisting of

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Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637–1674) and Henry Vaughan

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Cavalier poets, who were inspired by Ben Jonson

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Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, and Sir John Suckling

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Cavalier works make use of allegory and classical allusions and are influenced by Latin authors

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Horace, Cicero, and Ovid.[39]

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John Milton

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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),