Inglese

Technique: This is a morality play. In Faustus the end of the journey is different. Marlowe creates a new tragic renaissance hero whose passionate results in death and subversive search for knowledge and power results in death and spiritual damnation, and the morality play becomes a tragic play. He invents also the blank verse, a very flexible line, whi

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For example Lucy wonders if delicacy and beauty might be different things, while Charlotte assumes that they are synonymous. As her social world defines beauty and delicacy, the two qualities are one and the same; beauty is found in politeness, in circuitous and subtle conversation, in avoidance of direct confrontation or over-earnest expressions of emo

The word “Easter” means passage, because it remembers the journey of the Jews in the
desert, from Egypt to Palestine. The period before Easter is called Lent; it is a particular period of
prays for all the Christians and it lasts 40 days because Jewish people stayed in the desert for
40 years.
The night betwee

Today one in five teens is overweight, putting them at increased risk for heart disease. Sedentary life style is a big part of the problems. Enrolment in high school physical education classes dropped from 42% in 1991 to 25% in 1995. Many teens after school are watching TV or surfing the internet.

Sleeps
The teenagers get at last 9 hours of

The Faerie Queen is Spenser’s masterpiece . It is an epic poem in six book’s dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
It combines elements from different tradition:
1)Medieval Romans.
2)Epic elements from Ariosto and Tasso.
3)The works of Chaucer.
4)Christian legends, medieval allegory, Bible.
This poem, destined to noblemen, celebrated in

In that period started English poetry of Jonson, Spencer and Sydney, and also Shakespeare wrote some poems.
Elisabeth’s politics:
She divided it in internal affairs and in foreign affairs.
The most important problem to solve was the religious question. The queen tried to take a middle course. She was a Protestant.
We have to remember two

Generally speaking the central concerns of the sonneteers were friendship, love, beauty and the effect of the time’s flowing upon it.
Furthermore we can see an Italian influence as well in the conception of the courteous love as in the form; in fact the petrarchan conception of the courteous love and of the woman was retaken by Sidney who, in his ma

Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854 then he was sent to Oxford. As a disciple of Pater he accepted the theory of “Art for Art’s Sake”. In 1880 he began to write short stories as “The Canterville Ghost” and in 1891 the novel “The Picture of Dorian Gray”. In 1891 Wilde was sent to prison for homosexual offences. When he was released, the went into exile in F