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The Victorian Age (1837-1901) Historical Context The Victorian age usually covers in literary histories a period of time longer than the actual reign pf Queen Victoria, stretchinf from 1832 (the year of the first Reform Bill) to 1 ...

The Victorian Age (1837-1901) Historical Context The Victorian age usually covers in literary histories a period of time longer than the actual reign pf Queen Victoria, stretchinf from 1832 (the year of the first Reform Bill) to ...

THE VICTORIAN AGE The Victorian Age (1837-1901) was a period of great industrial development, of extraordinary financial expansion, and of the creation of the immense British Empire. Behind all these great events there was the enterprising ...

THE VICTORIAN COMPROMISE It was a complex and contradictory era: it was the age of progress, stability, great social reforms but it was also charactersised by povert, injustice and social unrest. The Victorians promoted a code of values th ...

The Victorian novel: the Victorian period can be considered the golden age of the novel, and the novelists assured a role of great social importance. The novelist in this period frequently published their work in instalments in literary magazine a ...

The virgin and the gipsy BY LAWRENCE This work is settled in Papplewick, that is in the northern Enland, in a valley. More exactly it is a village in the north of Nottingham , near Newstead Abbey. The works presents a grea ...

THE WALL STREET CRASH Between 1919 and 1924 the European economy went through a period of stagnation, all the European countries that had been involved in the conflict were burdened with a heavy public deficit, caused by the vast military expen ...

The Wall Street crash and the New Deal During the first World War, American business interests flourished. Weapons and food were sold to the Allies and there was a great increase in exports to world markets at that time when an exhauste ...

THE WAR POETS Different attitudes to war The First World War was welcomed with enthusiasm; the sense of pride and exhilaration was replaced by ever-growing doubt and disillusionment. For the soldiers, life in the trenches was hell becau ...

THE WAR POETS The The first world war was welcome with entusiasm. A lot of young men volunteered for military service in the early mounths of war, and they were the first to apprehend the horror and suffering of war. Young poets, in this ...

The Waste Land by Eliot The author is Eliot. We have a unreal city. Its London. In the morning, there was a lot of fog. A flowed of people, that walk along London bridge. In this landscape we have a group of people that are on London ...

The way of the world Plot synopsis Act 1 is set in a chocolate house where Mirabell and Fainall have just finished playing cards. A footman comes and tells Mirabell that Waitwell (Mirabell's male servant) and Foible (Lady Wishforts female ...

The Welsh flag The Welsh flag has two equal horizontal stripes, white above green, and a large red dragon passant. The origin of the Welsh Dragon were undoubtedly the Roman draconi standards of the cohorts, which were far more numerous th ...

THE WORLD OF FAIRIES As the title itself says, A Midsummer Night's Dream is a sort of 'dream'. In fact, most action takes place at night i ...

THE XVIII CENTURY The XVIII century is called New Classical Age, or The Age of Reason or The Enlightenment. SOCIETY: From the political and social point of view, we have two relevant classes: town merchants who spent their time sel ...

Theatres and acting companies The first permanent theatre was built by James Burbage in 1576. These theatres were circular or octagonal. They were composed of three galleries, looking down on the stage[1], and of the yard[2], were the poore ...

THEATRES AND ACTING COMPANIES James Burbage in 1576 built the first permanent theatre that were built outside the city because it was considered place of vices. Elizabethan players acting on a variety of stage, for exam ...

Themes The Dangers of Totalitarianism 1984 is a political novel written with the purpose of warning readers in the West of the dangers of totalitarian government. Having witnessed firsthand the horrific lengths to which totalitarian gover ...

THEMES IN ROMANTICISM The term Romantic can also be applied to describe a style or sensibility. It is a rebellion against classical rules of composition and classical aestheticism. Romanticism consists in the opposition of sentiment to re ...

THIS IS BRITAIN THE WEATHER The British isles are situated in the Northern temperate zone, so the climate is temperate; its never very hot, nor very cold. But the British isles have a current of warm water from the Gulf of Mexico, calle ...