Origin of English Literature 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… Continue reading Origin of English Literature
Category: English Literature
Important Characters in English Literature
Important Characters in English Literature Of course, we must know almost every writer who contributed to literature or helped to shape its frame. Let’s begin to know. Geoffrey Chaucer 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… Continue reading Important Characters in English Literature
How to study English Literature
How to study English Literature 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. Search… Continue reading How to study English Literature
Structure in English Literature
Structure in English Literature 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… Continue reading Structure in English Literature
Eras of the English Literature
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… Continue reading Eras of the English Literature
Pageants
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… Continue reading Pageants
Pestilence
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… Continue reading Pestilence
Revolt: Jean Froissart, Chroniques
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… Continue reading Revolt: Jean Froissart, Chroniques
Royal Benefactors
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… Continue reading Royal Benefactors
Regiment of Princes
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… Continue reading Regiment of Princes