English Literature Course

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• English Literature Course

• 1576-1901

• The Enlightenment

• The Elizabethan Theatre

• The Victorian Era

• The Restoration Theatre

• The English Civil War/ Interregnum and Commonwealth

• Romanticism

• 1564- William Shakespear 1576- James Burbage and The Theatre 1577- The Curtain opens 1587- The Rose 1587- The Bubonic Plague 1594- Lord Chamberlain's Men 1597-S's company of actors 1599-1613-1614 The Globe Theatre Playwritgths: William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson.  

• 1642 Puritans and Royalist Suppresion of all stage plays 1644 The Globe was demolished 1647-1648 Stricter rules on stage plays  1649- The execution of King Charles I 1651- Charles II flight to France 1653- Disolution of The Parliament and Oliver becomes Lord Protector 1658- Oliver dies, his son Richard  

• 1660- King Charles II The opening of theatres  Celebration of the end of puritans rules. 1680- Plays dominant genre is "heroic" Women on stage, libertin, gossip, COM Female Wits: Aphra Behn playwriter and actresses Nell Gwynne, Moll Davis, Margaret Hughes.  Playwrights: Jhon Dryden, William Congevre, Jhon Milton, Willyam Wycherly. -Travel Literature.  

• From the late 17th to the early 19th Century. Or The great "Age of Reason" Scientific, political and philosophical changes. 

• From the late 18th to the middle 19th Century. Irrational impulses, celebration of the common man, idealization of women. Romantic writers: John Keats, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley.

• 1837-1901 Struggle of people and the triumph of right over wrong. Growth in population, improvements in technology and changing world views, poor conditions to the worker class.  Some novelist and poets: Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Lewis Carroll, Bronte sisters, etc.