The Predecessors of Shakespeare.

Lecture 1 The development of the English language on the British Isles. Beowulf.
 Lecture 1.2 The dawn of English literature. Beowulf  
The Epic poem  Beowulf 
Questions and tasks on Lecture 1 
Anglo-Saxon Literature

Anglo- Saxon Literature. Questions. 

British Library  Discovering Literature: Medieval

Lecture 2. Pre- Renaissance England in the 14 th century. Geoffrey Chaucer..  

Lecture 3. The literature of 15th century . Robin Hood Ballads Lecture 4.  the Renaissance Impacts of the Renaissance =video The English Renaissance - video Lecture 5 Historical and social background of Renaissance Lecture 6 Sir Thomas Man and his "Utopia" Lecture 7 The second period of the Renaissance in England.  The Predecessors of Shakespeare.  British Library  Discovering Literature: Shakespeare & Renaissance Lecture 8 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Lecture 9 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  Four Facts about Sonnets - video Italian and Elizabethan sonnets Lecture 10. English literature during the Bourgeois Revolution Brief History of the Royal Family  The Glorious Revolution Lecture 11. The Enlightenment.  The 17th-18th century literature. British Library Discovering Literature: Restoration & 18th century British Library Discovering Literature: Romantics & Victorians British Library Discovering Literature: 20th century  Lecture 12 Romanticism Examples of Romanticism in Literature The 19th Century : Romanticism in Art and Literature 19th Century Literary Movements : Realism and Naturalism Lecture 13. Realism

 The Renaissance