Literature and theatre in the UK an outline презентация

CHARMS

Robin Hood)

DRAMA (mystery plays and morality plays)

Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales

SONNET
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent

That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."

THE ENGLISH SONNET
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a) Admit impediments. Love is not love (b) Which alters when it alteration finds, (a) Or bends with the remover to remove. (b) O no, it is an ever fixed mark (c) That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d) It is the star to every wand'ring barque, (c) Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.(d) Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e) Within his bending sickle's compass come; (f) Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e) But bears it out even to the edge of doom. (f) If this be error and upon me proved, (g) I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)

in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of two ;
And this, alas ! is more than we would do.

Of Time
("Do dziewic, aby nie traciły czasu„)

GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer ;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may go marry :
For having lost but once your prime
You may for ever tarry.

Richard II
King Henry VIII or All Is True

COMEDIES
The Comedy of Errors
The Taming of The Shrew
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
As You Like It
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
The Winter's Tale
The Tempest

and Cleopatra

POEMS
Sonnets (154)
Venus and Adonis
The Rape of Lucrece
The Phoenix and Turtle
A Lover's Complaint

on Criticism

Modest Proposal - pamphlet

KEATS
Percy Bysshe SHELLEY
George Gordon BYRON

and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma
Sir Walter SCOTT (Scottish) Ivanhoe

Christmas Carol
David Copperfield
Bleak House
Hard Times
Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations

(Marian Evans) The Mill on the Floss

The Importance of Being Earnest

George Bernard SHAW Pygmalion

W.B. YEATS Countess Cathleen

Land
Ash Wednesday
Hollow Men

William Butler YEATS
The Second Coming

the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats’ feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
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(Irish)

Lord Jim
Heart of Darkness
Nostromo

James JOYCE Ulysses

Virginia WOOLF Mrs Dalloway

Our Man in Havana
Kingsley AMIS Lucky Jim
William GOLDING Lord of the Flies
John FOWLES The Magus
Anthony BURGESS The Clockwork Orange
Dorris LESSING The Golden Notebook
Ian MCEWAN The Child in Time

Anger

”Theatre of the Absurd”
Samuel BECKETT (Irish) Waiting for Godot
Harold PINTER The Birthday Party