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Literature time periods and their characteristics Make sure to keep this in your folder,
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British Literature Name:________________________ Period: __________________ Date: _________________________ British Literature Timeline Notes Directions: In the boxes below, copy down the notes from each lecture on British Literature time periods and their characteristics. Make sure to keep this in your folder, as you will be turning it in at the end of the semester for points. You will also use this to study for your midterm and final. The Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066) Characteristics Texts feature: - strong belief in fate - juxtaposition of church and pagan worlds - admiration of heroic warriors who prevail in battle - express religious faith and give moral instruction through literature Styles include: - oral tradition of literature - poetry dominant genre - unique verse form - alliteration (ex. She sells seashells by the seashore) - repetition Effect of Literature: - Christianity helps literacy to spread - introduces Roman alphabet to Britain - oral tradition helps unite diverse peoples and their myths Historical Context: - life centered around ancestral tribes or clans that ruled themselves - at first the people were warriors from invading outlying areas: Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Danes - later they were agricultural Texts The Venerable Bede, "The Story of Caedmon" (from An Ecclesiastical History of the English People) Beowulf
The Middle English Period or Medieval Period (1066-1485 roughly) Characteristics Texts feature: - plays that instruct the illiterate masses in morals and religion - chivalric code of honor/romances - religious devotion Styles include: - oral tradition continues - folk ballads - mystery and miracle plays - morality plays - stock epithets (also seen in Beowulf) - kennings (also seen in Beowulf) - frame stories (Canterbury Tales) - moral tales Effect of Literature: - church instructs its people through the morality and miracle plays - an illiterate population is able to hear and see the literature Historical Context: - Crusades bring the development of a money economy for the first time in Britain - trading increases dramatically as a result of the Crusades - William the Conqueror crowned king in 1066 - Henry III crowned king in 1154 brings a judicial system, royal courts, juries, and chivalry to Britain Texts Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
The Renaissance (1485-1660) Characteristics The Elizabethan Period: the reign of Elizabeth I, 1586-1603 Jacobean Period: he reign of James I of England, 1603-1625 Texts feature: - world view shifts from religion and after life to one stressing the human life on earth - popular theme: development of human potential - popular theme: many aspects of love explored - unrequited love - constant love - timeless love - courtly love - love subject to change Styles include: - poetry - the sonnet - metaphysical poetry - elaborate and unexpected metaphors called conceits - drama - written in verse - supported by royalty - tragedies, comedies, histories Effect of Literature: - commoners welcomed at some play productions (like ones at the Globe) while conservatives try to close the theaters on grounds that they promote brazen behaviors - not all middle-class embrace the metaphysical poets and their abstract conceits Historical Context: - War of Roses ends in 1485 and political stability arrives - Printing press helps stabilize English as a language and allows more people to read a variety of literature - Economy changes from farm-based to one of international trade Texts Sir Thomas Wyatt, "Whoso List to Hunt", "Farewell Love" (Petrarch, "Rima 190") Elizabeth I, "Speech to the House of Commons, January 28, 1563" William Shakespeare, Macbeth William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 130" Katherine Philips, "To Mrs. M.A. at Parting"
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