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The Angry Young Men The presentation of John Osbornes play Look Back in Anger in 1956 was a great event in the history of the modern English theatre and start the myth of The Angry Young Men. The label The Angry Young Men come to be u ...

The Augustan age The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age, the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason. The term 'the Augustan Age' comes from the self-conscious imitation of the original Augustan w ...

The Augustan age The Historical context: The first two-third of the eighteenth century was a period of a relative stability and prosperity. In this period the monarchy lost the power in favour of Parliament. In 1688 James II was removed ...

THE AUGUSTIAN AGE HISTORICAL CONTEXT -        The 18th century is often referred to by critics and historians as the 'Augustian age'. This is due to similarities with the era of ...

THE BALLAD The ballad is a poetic writing originated from a popular medieval tradition. The word ballad comes from the Latin ballare (to dance), in fact it is related to song and dance. It consists usually in some strophes made by lin ...

The beginning of the Stuart Dynasty When Elizabeth died in 1603, James I, son of Mary o Scotland, became the first Stuart king of England. He was learned and he wrote treatises in English and in Latin. He based his power on the divine ...

THE BOURGEOIS NOVEL AND SAMUEL RICHARDSON   THE BOURGEOIS NOVEL Richardson was the originator of the so called bourgeois novels or novels of manners.        The novels are based on a single story, ...

THE BOURGEOIS NOVEL RICHARDSON ( 1689 - 1762) Works: he wrote ' Pamela or Virtue Rewarded' and 'Clari ...

THE BRITISH EMPIRE (from 1776 to 1931) The indipendence of the 13 American colonies, proclaimed in 1776, and recognized in 1783 with the treaty of Versailles, was harmful for the English imperial ideal. The British colonial expansionism f ...

THE BRITISH SYSTEM Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch. At first only rich people were represented in parliament but, during the 19TH century, the right to vote was gradually extended to all men and then, in 1 ...

The British system Britain is a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch had real power but gradually, over the centuries, more and more of this power has been transferred to parliament. In 1649 King Charles I was ...

The Bronte Sisters LIFE Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were daughters of the Reverend Patrick Bronte, an Irishman who lived in Haworth, a village on the Yorkshire. He was a very intelligent man, but also an eccentric, and he used ...

THE BRONTE SISTERS LIFE: The famous Bronte sisters who wrote ( CHARLOTTE, EMILY, ANNE), are three of five daughters of an irish reverend educated at Cambridge (Patrick). Patrick was rector at Haworth, in Yorkshire, and asked his sister-in-la ...

The Bronte Sisters LIFE Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were daughters of the Reverend Patrick Bronte, an Irishman who lived in Haworth, a village on the Yorkshire. He was a very intelligent man, but also an eccentric, and he used t ...

The Canterbury Tales The plan of the Canterbury Tales was never completeded. In the Prologue it's explained that Chaucer spent the night before his pilgrimage at the Tabard Inn in Southwark. There, he meet other twenty nine pilgrims who, l ...

The Canterbury Tales The life of Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer was born in the fourteenth century (1340) in London. His father was an important wine merchant. He was connected with the court: he became a page in the household of one of ...

The Canterbury Tales The plan of the Canterbury Tales was never completeded. In the Prologue it's explained that Chaucer spent the night before his pilgrimage at the Tabard Inn in Southwark. There, he meet other twenty nine pilgrims who, l ...

Here is the beginning The Story 1 a) Make notes about the crime in the chart below. You will not find all the information in this extract, but you will be able to complete it later on. place: . victim: . accused: . time: . ...

THE CAVES OF STEEL TITLE The caves of steel AUTHOR Isaac Asimov PUBLISHER Cambridge University Press DATE OF PUBLICATION 1978 FIRST EDITION ...

THE CHAIN OF BEING THE CORRESPONDENCES Tudors inherited from the Middle Ages a series of beliefs on the order and stability of the world. It was represented in three forms: a chain, a series of corresponding planes and a cosmic dance. ...