Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
English literature begins with the history of dark ages about 8th – 14th centuries comes to the forefront with own various types including epics, ballads, hymns and so on. The first examples of English literature were written in Anglo-Saxon’s language, which is the source of English speaking but should be considered almost another language. Almost all men of literature accept that English literature begins with Beowulf, … Read the rest
Of course, we must know almost every writer who contributed to literature or helped to shape its frame. Let’s begin to know.
He wrote in all types of the poetry of the Medieval Ages and used English instead of Latin and French for the first time in literature in the palace. Lived in a transitional period, Chaucer tried to integrate old and new, … Read the rest
Because of broad subjects, each student approaches to study with the prejudice in the first. Actually, the hardest thing is to begin. Because even Middle English Literature may be the reason to give up before it begins. Now we have prepared a few tips on how to study literature.
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Before you start studying, you have to decide where you begin with. Of … Read the rest
English literature, based on many years of history, has many unique features. It has many literary products such as from novel to prose, from poem to the ballad, from hymn to elegy. Each of these has own characteristic feature, just as all of them has a different structure. Let’s look at them, what features do they have?
When we search structure, means composed … Read the rest
To find out how many parts a literature has is the main point of beginning to study. In general division, English Literature has ten parts, Old English, Medieval English, Renaissance and Reformation, Restoration Literature, 18th century, Romantic literature, Victorian Literature, and modernism, but recent epoch postmodernism joined to the literature. Let’s give a little briefing about Eras of English Literature
Old English Literature; this period continues from 450 … Read the rest
As the growing quantity of records in the Records of Early English Drama series attests, medieval moralities and cycle plays were not only the occasion for many different kinds of play but were also economically significant enterprises. Morality plays often required large place and scaffold structures, costuming, and sometimes large casts while, most notably, town guilds and other civic and religious bodies created elaborate wagons, sets, props, and costumes for … Read the rest
Pestilence
The pestilence (not called the Black Death until the sixteenth century) arrived on England’s southwestern shores in the summer of 1348 and quickly spread so that by the following summer it had reached London and beyond. It recurred in 1361–2, 1368–9, and 1375, then at irregular intervals thereafter, but the first outbreak was the most severe. Between one third and one half of England’s population died as a result … Read the rest
London, British Library, MS Royal 18 E.1, fol. 175r
Language: French
Manuscript date: 1460–80
Jean Froissart’s narrative of the revolt is valuable for several details it provides of the revolt, including, for instance, a sermon by John Ball, the priest from Kent and rebel leader. Manuscript Royal 18 E.1 was made in Flanders for William Hastings, Baron Hastings. It contains 48 richly colorful illuminations of events in France and England … Read the rest
London, British Library, MS Cotton Nero D.vii, fols. 6v–7r (Golden Book of St. Albans)
Language: Latin
Manuscript date: 1380
The Golden Book of St. Albans (also known as the Liber Benefactorum, Book of Benefactors) is a record of the names of benefactors and their contributions to the Benedictine abbey of St. Albans (for more on donors, see the image “Anne of Burgundy, duchess of Bedford, before St. Anne,” p. 135). … Read the rest
Chaucer portrait: Thomas Hoccleve,
Regiment of Princes
British Library MS Harley 4866, fol. 88r
Language: English (Southeast Midland)
Manuscript date: ca. 1411
Portraits of Geoffrey Chaucer appear in the Ellesmere Canterbury Tales and in a few other Thomas Hoccleve Regiment manuscripts (see the image of an Ellesmere page, “Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales,” p. 137). Hoccleve wrote the Regiment of Princes for Henry, Prince of Wales, in the years preceding 1413, … Read the rest
