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    Seminar 1

    A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF BRITISH LITERARY PERIODS (1)


    Although historians have delineated the eras of British literature in
    different ways over time, common divisions are outlined below.
    The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450-1066)
    This period of primarily oral literature dates back to the Anglo-Saxon
    invasion of Celtic England circa 450. The era ends in 1066 when Norman
    France, under William, conquered England. A lot of the prose during this time
    was a translation of something else or otherwise legal, medical, or religious in
    nature; however, some works, such as “Beowulf” and those by period poets
    Caedmon and Cynewulf, are important.
    The Middle English Period (1066-1500)
    As with the Old English period, much of the Middle English writings were
    religious in nature; however, from about 1350 onward, secular literature
    began to rise. This period is home to the likes of Chaucer, Thomas Malory,
    and Robert Henryson. Notable works include “Piers Plowman” and “Sir
    Gawain and the Green Knight.”
    The Renaissance (1500-1660)
    This period is subdivided into four parts. The Elizabethan Age (1558-
    1603) was the golden age of English drama, some of its noteworthy figures
    being Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter
    Raleigh, and, of course, William Shakespeare. The Jacobean Age (1603-
    1625), named for the reign of James I, includes the works of John Donne,
    Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson,
    and Lady Mary Wroth. The Caroline Age (1625-1649) covers the reign of
    Charles I, with John Milton, Robert Burton, and George Herbert being some
    of the notable figures. Finally, the Commonwealth Period (1649-1660) was so
    named for the period between the end of the English Civil War and the
    restoration of the Stuart monarchy. At this time, John Milton and Thomas
    Hobbes’ political writings appeared and prose writers such as Thomas Fuller,
    Abraham Cowley, and Andrew Marvell published prolifically.
    The Neoclassical Period (1600-1785)
    The Neoclassical period is also subdivided into three ages. The
    Restoration (1660-1700) sees the development of comedies of manner under
    the talent of playwrights like William Congreve and John Dryden. The
    Augustan Age (1700-1745) was the climax of the oeuvre of Alexander Pope,
    Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Daniel Defoe. The Age of
    Sensibility (1745-1785) was characterized by the Enlightenment ideas being
    championed by the novelists Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias
    Smollett, and Laurence Sterne as well as the poets William Cowper and
    Thomas Percy.
    ЗГАДУЮЧИ ПРО ВЕЛЕТІВ (1)
    Вони жили в одну епоху, але в різних країнах… Вони померли майже
    одночасно – з різницею в один день… Але їх обох досі вважають
    найбільшими велетами світової літератури.
    Міґель де Сервантес Сааведра – іспанський новеліст, драматург і
    поет, класик світової літератури – залишив цю землю 22 квітня 1616-го. А
    Вільям Шекспір – англійський драматург Єлизаветинської епохи, один із
    найвідоміших драматургів та поетів світу, пішов із життя 23 квітня того ж
    року. Шекспіра вважають батьком всіх драматургів світу, він є автором
    принаймні 17 комедій, 10 хронік, 11 трагедій, 5 поем і циклу зі 154
    сонетів. Сервантес прославився передусім твором «Дон Кіхот», який
    багато критиків називають першим сучасним романом та одним із
    найкращих творів світу. Він є батьком усіх сучасних письменників-
    романістів.
    Seminar 2
    A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF BRITISH LITERARY PERIODS (2)
    The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
    This era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth,
    Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary
    Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen,
    and Mary Shelley. There is also a minor period, also quite popular (between
    1786-1800), called the Gothic era. Writers of note for this period include
    Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe, and William Beckford.
    The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
    This period, named for the reign of Queen Victoria, was a time heralded
    by the passage of the Reform Bill, which expanded voting rights. Poets of this
    time include Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred
    Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, among others. Thomas Carlyle, John
    Ruskin, and Walter Pater were advancing the essay form at this time. Finally,
    prose fiction truly found its place under the auspices of Charles Dickens,
    Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Anthony
    Trollope, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Samuel Butler.
    The Edwardian Period (1901-1914)
    This period is named for King Edward VII and covers the period between
    Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War I. The era includes incredible
    classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling,
    H.G. Wells, and Henry James (who was born in America but spent most of
    his writing career in England); notable poets such as Alfred Noyes and
    William Butler Yeats; and dramatists such as James Barrie, George Bernard
    Shaw, and John Galsworthy.
    The Modern Period (1914-?)
    Some of the most notable writers of this period, traditionally applied to
    works written after the start of World War I, include the novelists James
    Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad,
    Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing; the
    poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens,
    Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves; and the dramatists Tom Stoppard,
    George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter,
    and Caryl Churchill.
    The Postmodern Period (1945-?)
    The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended.
    Some notable writers of the period include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller,
    Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks.
    ЗГАДУЮЧИ ПРО ВЕЛЕТІВ (2)
    Іспанські чиновники звітують, що твори Сервантеса перекладено на
    140 мов світу. «Британська рада» скромно відповіла, що твори Шекспіра
    перекладено «лише» на більше, як 100 мов світу. Але Шекспір у наші
    часи став не просто драматургом, а ще й кінодраматургом. На основі
    його творів написано понад тисячу кіносценаріїв. Щоправда, і «Дон
    Кіхот» відомий за приблизно 50 кіноекранізаціями різними мовами світу.
    Твори Шекспіра та Сервантеса також лягли в основу численних
    мюзиклів.
    Відзначення ювілеїв – це ще й спроба донести твори класиків до
    сучасників. Адже проведене торік в Іспанії соціологічне дослідження
    показало, що лише 10 відсотків дорослих іспанців читали «Дон Кіхота».
    Адже це роман на 1100 сторінках із численними зносками та
    поясненнями. Люди епохи інтернету від такого «чтива» вже відвикли.
    Багато опитаних визнали, що доходили десь до 50-ї сторінки і читати
    далі вже не вистачало наполегливості й терпіння.

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