It discusses about the Early modern english literature, the literary works and pieces and authors.

1. EARLY MODERN
ENGLISH
LITERATURE
PREPARED BY: JENNEL J. BERNIL, LPT

2. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
(1500-1700)
• King James Bible
• Introduction of the PRINTING PRESS
to London.

3. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
TIMELINE
1500 1525 1550 1575 1600 1625 1650 1675 1700
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1500-1660)
ELIZABETHAN
PERIOD
(1558-1603)
JACOBEAN
PERIOD
(1603-
1625)
REFORMATION
PERIOD
(1625-1660)
RESTORATION
AGE
(1660-1700)
CAROLINE
AGE
(1625-
1649)
INTER-
REGNUM
(1649-
1660)

4. ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
• Cultural and Artistic Movement
• Era of Discovery
• Exploration and Exploitation

5. English Renaissance
hitters:
• The JOHNS ( Milton and Donne)
• Francis Bacon
• Christopher Marlowe
• William Shakespeare
LET US DIVE IN TO THE VAST SEA OF EARLY MODERN ENGLISH
LITERATURE!!!

6. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
(1558-1603)
WRITER ROLE MAJOR WORKS
THOMAS SACKVILLE POET Gorboduc (Collaborated
with Thomas Norton)
THOMAS NORTON POET Gorboduc (Collaborated
with Thomas Sackville)
EDMUND SPENSER POET The Faerie Queene
The Shepheardes
Calendar

7. SYNOPSIS:
At the play's beginning, the argument
gives the following summary of the
play's action:"Gorboduc, King of Britain,
divided his realm in his lifetime to his
sons, Ferrex and Porrex.
The sons fell to dissension. The younger killed the
elder. The mother that more dearly loved the elder, for
revenge killed the younger. The people, moved with the
cruelty of the fact, rose in rebellion and slew both
father and mother.
The nobility assembled and most terribly destroyed
the rebels. And afterward for want of issue of the prince,
whereby the succession of the crown became uncertain, they
fell to civil war in which both they and many of their
issues were slain, and the land for a long time almost
desolate and miserably wasted.

8. SYNOPSIS:
The sons fell to dissension. The
younger killed the elder. The
mother that more dearly loved the
elder, for revenge killed the
younger. The people, moved with the
cruelty of the fact, rose in
rebellion and slew both father and
mother.

9. SYNOPSIS:
The nobility assembled and
most terribly destroyed the rebels.
And afterward for want of issue of
the prince, whereby the succession
of the crown became uncertain, they
fell to civil war in which both
they and many of their issues were
slain, and the land for a long time
almost desolate and miserably
wasted.

10. THE FAERIE QUEENE
• The Faerie Queene an epic poem
and fantastical allegory
celebrating the Tudor
and Elizabeth I.
• Incomplete English epic poem.
• Books I to III were first published in 1590,
and then republished in 1596 together with
books IV to VI.
• It is one of the longest poems in the English
language and the origin of a verse form that
came to be known as Spenserian Stanza.

11. • SPENSERIAN STANZA
• A stanza consisting of eight iambic
pentameter and an alexandrine.
• RHYME SCHEME: ababbcbcc

12. •
This example is the first stanza from
Spenser's “THE FAERIE QUEENE”
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,
As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far unfitter taske,
For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;
Whose prayses having slept in silence long,
Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:
Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.

13. THEMES:
• Abuses of the church
• Colin's shattered love for
Rosalind
• Praise for Queen Elizabeth
• Encomia to the rustic Shepherd’s
life

14. FACTS:
• Each eclogue is preceded by a woodcut and followed
by a motto describing the speaker.
• The opening line of each eclogue expresses
characteristics of the month, and the poem as a whole
charts common accuracy of the seasons, the toil and
celebrations of the village year

15. FACTS:
January pastoral
tells of the
unhappy love of
Colin for Rosalind.
The springtime
of April calls
for a song in
praise of
Elizabeth.

16. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
(1558-1603)
WRITER ROLE MAJOR WORKS
THOMAS WYATT POET Introduced Sonnet into
English Literature
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY POET Astrophil and Stella

17. FACTS:
• English sonnet sequence containing
108 sonnets and 11 songs.
• The name derives from the two Greek
words, 'aster' (star) and 'phil' (lover)
• The Latin word 'stella' meaning star.
• Thus Astrophil is the star lover, and
Stella is his star.

18. FACTS:

19. SONNET 1:
Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show,
That she (dear She) might take some pleasure of my pain:
Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,
Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,
I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe,
Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain:
Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow
Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.
But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay,
Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows,
And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way.
Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes,
Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,
'Fool' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.'

20. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
(1558-1603)
WRITER ROLE MAJOR WORKS
CHRISTOPHER
MARLOWE
POET, DRAMATIST Passionate Shepherd to
his Love
SIR WALTER RALEIGH POET, HISTORIAN The Nymph’s Reply to the
Shepherd

23. ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
(1558-1603)
WRITER ROLE MAJOR WORKS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE POET, PLAYWRIGHT The Comedy of Errors
A Midsummer’s night
Dream
As You Like It
Twelfth Night

24. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
• Shortest and one of his
most farcical comedies.
• It has only 1,756 lines.
• It tells the story of two
sets of identical twins
that were accidentally
separated at birth.

25. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS•
• Antipholus of Ephesus and
Antipholus of Syracuse – twin
brothers, sons of Egeon and Emilia.
• Dromio of Ephesus and Dromio of Syracuse –
twin brothers, each serving his respective
Antipholus

26. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS•
• Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant,
Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus.
• When the Syracusans encounter the friends and families of their
twins:
• A series of wild mishaps based on mistaken identities lead to
wrongful beatings
• A near-seduction
• The arrest of Antipholus of Ephesus,
• and false accusations of infidelity, theft and madness.

27. JACOBEAN PERIOD
(1603-1625)
• Why is it “JACOBEAN”?
• From Latin ‘JACOBUS’ meaning ‘JAMES’
• Period of visual and literary arts
during the reign of JAMES I of England.

28. JACOBEAN PERIOD
(1603-1625)
WRITER ROLE MAJOR WORKS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE POET King Lear
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tempest
BENJAMIN “BEN”
JONSON
PLAYWRIGHT, POET Song To Celia
The Masque of Blackness

29. KING LEAR
CHARACTERS:
1. Lear – King of Britain
2. Goneril – eldest daughter
3. Regan – second
4. Cordelia – youngest
5. King of France – suitor and later husband of
Cordelia
6. Albany – Goneril’s husband
7. Cornwall – Regan’s husband
8. Gloucester
9. Kent – a loyal nobleman in disguise
10. Fool – Lear’s Fool
11. Edgar – Gloucester’s son
12. Edmund – Gloucester’s illegitimate son

32. REFORMATION PERIOD
(1625-1660)
• CENSORSHIP
• THE LICENSING ORDER OF 1643 instituted pre-
publication censorship which impacted everything
from religious to political pamphlets to poetry
and works of fiction.
• Such literature would then be destroyed and
writers, printers and publishers accused of
distributing it could be arrested and
imprisoned.

33. REFORMATION PERIOD
(1625-1660)
• CAROLINE AGE (1625-1649)
• Why is it called Caroline?
• Because during this era was the reign
of Charles I
• ‘CAROLUS’ being Latin for “CHARLES”.

34. CAROLINE AGE
(1625-1649)
METAPHYSICAL
POETS
CAVALIER POETS TRIBE OF
BEN
• John Donne
• George Herbert
• Henry Vaughn
• Andrew Marvell
• Emilia Lanier
• Robert Herrick
• Richard Lovelace
• Thomas Carew
• Sir John
Suckling
• Richard Brome
• Thomas Nabbes
• Henry Glapthorne
• Sir William
Davenant
• William Cavendish

35. RESTORATION AGE
(1660-1700)
• Charles II of England became King in 1660.
• The period witnessed news become a
commodity.
• The Essay develop into a periodical art form
• The beginnings of textual criticism

36. RESTORATION AGE
(1660-1700)
WRITER ROLE MAJOR WORKS
JOHN MILTON POET Paradise Lost
JOHN DRYDEN POET, DRAMATIST,
LITERARY CRITIC
Annus Mirabilis

37. It's great to have all these new discoveries in science
and travel and art.
But it's LITERATURE that helps you find a foothold as
everything is changing around you.
A HEART.
A CENTER THAT CAN HOLD.
when Milton explores guilt and blame,
when Shakespeare evaluates forgiveness,
when John Donne challenges death,
and Ben Jonson examines immortality,
These authors help us to see the world, and ourselves,
more clearly.

38. • Let’s share sentiments about Literature!
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