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ENGLISH LITERATURE

ENGLISH LITERATURE. The Dawn of English Literature. The Ancient Britons and Their Language. We find Celtic in geographical names : dun/ dum = down, dune (the towns of Dunscore , Dunedin, Dumbarton) avon = river (Stratford-on-Avon) kil =wood ( Kilbrook ).

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ENGLISH LITERATURE

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  1. ENGLISH LITERATURE The Dawn of English Literature

  2. The Ancient Britons and Their Language We find Celtic in geographical names: dun/dum = down, dune (the towns of Dunscore, Dunedin, Dumbarton) avon=river (Stratford-on-Avon) kil=wood (Kilbrook)

  3. The Roman Invasion • 55 B.C.: • the Roman(Latin) till 407 A.D. • Julius Caesar - the first Roman • castra=camp (Lancaster, Manchester, Worcester)

  4. The Invasion by Germanic Tribes 410: Angles, Saxons, Jutes • West Germanic language • They were pagans, believed in many gods: Tuesco (god of darkness) – Tuesday…

  5. Beowulf Remounted page, British Library Cotton Vitellius A.XV the first page of Beowulf in Cotton Vitellius A. xv.

  6. An illustration of Grendel's mother by J.R. Skelton from Stories of Beowulf (1908) described as a "water witch" trying to stab Beowulf. An illustration of Grendel by J.R. Skelton from Stories of Beowulf. Grendel is described as "Very terrible to look upon."

  7. A 1908 depiction of Beowulf fighting the dragon by J. R. Skelton. Beowulf is challenged by a Danish coast guard, Evelyn Paul (1911).

  8. Anglo-Saxon literature (the 7th-11th Centuries) • Caedmon (poet) - the 7th century - wrote in Anglo-Saxon “The Paraphrase” • Bede - the father of English history ”The History of the English Church” • Alfred the Great (849 – 901) Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – the first prose in English literature

  9. The Norman conquest The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings and the events leading to it. William the Conqueror and Harold at the Battle of Hastings

  10. King Harold Kern Norman archer Norman knights riding

  11. Model of the Anglo-Norman castle

  12. William of Normandy go ashore in England, French drawing from 1883. William Bastarden invades England.  Illustration of French manuscript from 1400-1410

  13. King Arthur Merlin kidnaps baby Arthur.  (N.K. Wyatt, 1922) King Arthur by Charles Ernest Butler (1903)

  14. Mark Twain. "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889) Lady of the Lake presenting Excalibur

  15. Culhwch entering Arthur's Court in the Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, 1881

  16. The Round Table experience a vision of the Holy Grail. From a 15th century French manuscript.

  17. Mordred, Arthur's final foe according to Geoffrey of Monmouth, illustrated by H. J. Fordfor Andrew Lang's King Arthur: The Tales of the Round Table, 1902 The combat of Arthur andMordred, illustrated by N.C. Wyethfor The Boy's King Arthur, 1922

  18. The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in MiddleEnglish by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century.

  19. The first page of the Hengwrt Chaucer manuscript with the beginning of theGeneral Prologue. Geoffrey Chaucer, 1380, New Catholic Encyclopedia.

  20. Then said the first of them when this was done: “Now for a drink. Sit down and let’s be merry…” He took a bottle full of poison up And drank; and his companion, nothing loth, Drank from it also, and they perished both, Thus the two murderers received their due, So did the treacherous young prisoner too

  21. Woodcut from William Caxton's second edition of The Canterbury Tales, ca 1484. Chaucer as a pilgrim from the Ellesmere Chaucer manuscript in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

  22. A story from Il Decameron by John William Waterhouse. The English Peasant Revolt of 1381 is mentioned in The Canterbury Tales.

  23. Ezra Winter, Canterbury Tales mural (1939), Library of Congress John AdamsBuilding, Washington, DC The dilemma of Bors - he rescues a girl instead of his brother Lionel. The murder of Thomas Becket.

  24. The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) The White Rose of the House of York The Red Rose of the House of Lancaster

  25. The Tudor Rose, created at the end of the Civil War, joining the two emblems.

  26. Robin HOOD The title page of Howard Pyle's 1883 novel, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Robin Hood statue inNottingham

  27. Douglas Fairbanks as Robin Hood; the sword he is depicted with was common in the oldest ballads "Robin shoots with Sir Guy" byLouis Rhead

  28. Robin Hood and Maid Marian (Robin Hood wife)

  29. Find the odd one: • The Roman invasion, the Danes invasion, the Norman invasion, the French invasion • Celtic, Latin, West Germanic, Roman

  30. THE END

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