Letteratura Inglese

CHARACTERS
-The old King(he is a great sinner)
-The young King(he is poor, then becomes a King)
-The slaves(-of his dreams-they must work to live)
-The Chamberlain(he tries in vain to make the King wear the king’s raiment)
-The old Bishop(he’s wise and gives good advices to the King)

The Birthday of the Infanta_
On th

Second Act - Romeo can't return to home at the end of the party and goes, without be seen, in the Capuleti's garden where hears Juliet speaking alone about her desperate love for him. They meet and confess their love each other. Juliet tells Romeo that the day after she will send someone to him to have a confirmation of Romeo's real intention to ma

- The Anglo-Saxons: after the Romans withdrew definitively, around the year 450 B.C., in Britain arrived some German tribes (Anglos, Saxons, and Jutes). Originally they destroyed the roman town and re-established the pagan values. The Celts continued to resist the invaders but suffered from internal fighting. Many Celtics people fled to the west of Brit

Penso che tutti i partiti siano d’accordo sul fatto che tutti questi bambini, in quantità enorme, che si vedono in braccio o sulla schiena o alle calcagna della madre e spesso del padre, costituiscono un serio motivo di lamentela, in aggiunta a tanti altri, nelle attuali deplorevoli condizioni di questo Regno; e, quindi, chiunque sapesse trovare un meto

Metaphisical poetry reflects the crisis of the renaissance man: he looks for a new trhuth and dimension and he tries to give voice to chaotic experience that is ordinary life:his poetry is difficult because life is chaotic irregualr, difficult.
THE SUN RISING
At the beginning he addresses the sun using an insulting,angry,scornful tone. When he s

The novel became the most common form of fiction. The novel is fictitious: it narrates about imaginary events and characters although representative of real life.
The 18 th century novelist was the spokesman of the middle classe: he wrote in a simple way to be understood by the less educated readers. The story has to appeal the practical minded trad

III ATTO
Poco dopo, però, l’amicizia che univa Antonio e Cesare si scioglie poiché Cesare, come dice Antonio, “ha scatenato un’altra guerra contro Pompeo. Ha fatto e ha reso pubblico il suo testamento. Di me ha parlato di sfuggita, e quando – costretto - mi ha rivolto un elogio è stato avaro di parole, freddo e di malumore”. A questo punto assi

In the 18th century with the revaluation of supernatural it acquires a positive mean in contrast with reason and rationality of the Enlightment.

Themes
The main themes of the author in this period are:
• Individual relation between Man and Nature
• Imagination as a way to escape from the real World
• Artist as an original crea

È questa un'isola davvero singolare. Consiste per lo più di sabbia marina, ed è lunga circa tre miglia. In nessun punto la sua larghezza supera il quarto di miglio. La separa dalla terraferma, a mala pena riconoscibile, l'estuario di un fiumiciattolo che defluisce in mezzo a un intrico di canne e di mota, dimora prediletta della gallinella d'acqua. Come

In literature we can see a clear break with the previous ideas: the presence of reason, common sense, realism and formality of the Augustan Age are replaced with the individualism, free expression of personal feelings and emotions and imagination as source of inspiration that characterized the Romanticism.
The English Romantic period was dominated b