1. How Historical Periods Can Change
and Have Influence in Art and
Literature.
•Elizabethan Era.
•Restoration.
•Victorian Era.
2. The “golden age” represented the culmination of the English
Renaissance and showed the flowering of poetry, literature and
music
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
In Elizabethan era there were many different ways of
entertainment.
The most important in Elizabethan era were the plays, the
propaganda, the playwrights and the politics, all had an important
place in the history of the Elizabethan Theatre.
3. Soon playhouses
were built and great
open theatres were
being constructed.
This was the apogee
of the theatres in
Elizabethan era.
The Inn-yards was the firsts places were the plays were
produced.
4. We have a different
range of topics.
- Puritanism
- Paradise Lost vs
Sodom.
- The Country Wife
vs The Pilgrim’s
Progress.
The dates of the Restoration literature are not the same
as the English Restoration. Drama lasts until 1700, poetry
lasts until 1666, and prose lasts until 1688.
5. Gondibert is an unfinished
epic poem that tries to give to
the English literature a national
epic poem that the English
literature never had before.
6. In prose we find a very important book of science, written by
Thomas Sprat which name is History of the Royal Society.
7. Although the
Restoration stopped
the strength that
had the Puritans in
literature in Oliver
Cromwell’s time,
there are some
religious books, one
of them mentioned
Oliver Cromwell. before:The Pilgrim’s
progress.
8. A new kind of literature style emerged, that one of the
novel.
This novel gender would beat other genders less powerful
in this period as the poetry and the same, but in a minor
way, with the theater.
9. • Novels' themes expressed the lifestyle of the new created
“middle class”, in which they mentioned their work, love
affairs, and some difficulties that usually are solved happily at
the end.
• Double morality. This means, that the aristocratic or the
remarkable middle class population showed one part of
their personality which was respectable, and on the other
side they hide their wrong habits
11. New kind of novel
style was
introduced, the
“child's literature”
also known as
“literature for
children”.
12. New fusion of Gothic
literature elements, with
some news.
Double morality of the
characters, and gothic
features as monsters, hidden
rooms or curses, a part of
typical gothic landscapes as
castles, cemeteries or
monasteries.
