Letteratura Inglese

Circa la riscrittura del dramma shakespeariano “Riccardo III”si può notare non solo come Bene sia in grado di citare Eliot facendo sì che la sua poetica si fondi completamente con quella riccardiana senza quasi lasciare traccia di contaminazione apparente, ma anche come riesca ad amputare parti del testo o a trascrivere dialoghi e monologhi tagli

5-la riforma inglese
6-l importanza di una nuova classe media
Enrico VII ,nato nel 1485, fu il re di cui l Inghilterra aveva bisogno in questo periodo, devastato da continue guerre dinastiche. Egli mise fine a quest ultime sposando Elisabetta degli York.
Oltre ad essere un abile diplomatico egli era anche economico e crudele quando necessari

The structure of novels
Defoe’s long narratives are fictional autobiographies always pretending to be “true” stories through the biographical details and memories provided by the protagonist. The structure of the novels is characterised by a series of episodes and adventures held together by the unifying presence of a single hero. Defoe’s method of

A Protestant humanist
Milton started writing poetry early. As a student in Cambridge he wrote his first important work, Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nutivity, where the fusion of Christian and classica1 elements was already present. From 1632 to 1638 Milton lived at his father’s country house, studying and conposing poetry, for example L’Allegvo

The title seems to revolve the play on Caesar, in reality, the play is named after him, and the events of the play all relate to him. However, Caesar only appears in three scenes (four if the ghost is included), thus apparently making him an unlikely choice for the protagonist, who is supposed to be the main character. Meanwhile, Brutus, who is in the p

Their writing was mainlt influenced by the theories of the austrian doctor Sigmund Freud, who explained that the development of our personality was greatly affected by the unconscious, the hidden part of ourselves.
By studiing the human mind, Frued gave great importance to the interpretation of dremas and to the free associations of thoughts. Ac

CHRISTMAS CAROL
True Humanity
Scholar Michael Patrick Hearn, in The Annotated Christmas Carol (1976; New York: Norton, 2004), notes that Dickens was a Unitarian. Unitarian Christianity, in Dickens’ day, focused more on morality and ethics than on traditional theology. Dickens wrote in one of his letters, “I have always striven in my writings to

Socio-political thoughts
Blake, therefore lived in the last part of eighteenth century and is rightly considered the embodiment of the romantic ideal.
During his lifetime all the revolution of ht e world happened: the American revolutionary war; the French revolution and the Industrial revolution.
Although he was agree with the ideal

Two men, in particular, contributed to its rise, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, with the periodicals “The Tatler” and “The Spectator”.
But at the beginning of this century, beyond “The Spectator” in England there were other important journals: “The Review”, “The Examiner”, “The Gentlemen’s Magazine” and “The Champion”.
“The Review” by Daniel