Letteratura Inglese

Shaw’s masterpiece is “Pygmalion” whose title is inspired by “Metamorphoses” by Ovid, a Greek legend telling about a sculptor who scorns a statue of a woman and falls in love with it; Aphrodite (the goodness of love) transforms the sculpture into a real woman and, at the end, the artist marries his creation. “Pygmalion” is a play dealing with a bet betw

- 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

Henry Fielding
He began his career as a playwright where he immediately his taste for cutting satire on English society. He attacked the system of justice in England. The “licensing act” put an end to his theatrical career. He turned to novel writing and became on of the greatest writers of the century. He detested the sentimentally and hypocr

With Frieda, he travelled to Italy, Ceylon, Australia, North America and Mexico and wrote several books among the most remarkable is “Twilight in Italy”. He died ill with tuberculosis in France in 1930.
Lawrence’s masterpiece is “Sons and Lovers” (published in 1913). It tells about the Morels, a family, living in a poor coal-mining village, who

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Analysis
In the General Prologue, Chaucer sets up the general structure of the tales and introduces each of the characters who will tell the tales. The characters who tell each of the tales are as important as the characters in the tales that they tell; a significant portion of the action of the Canterbury Tales takes place within the prologues to e

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Anglo-Saxon prose developed thanks to King Alfred who ordered to write the Anglo-Saxon chronicle. He was a very learned man and founded a school for nobles and he himself translated “Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum” by Bede and De Consolatione Filosofiae by Boezio. Then we have to remember Aelfric who translated from the Old Te

The king was elected by the witan composed by the most important nobles or thanes from the seven kingdoms. They were organized in villages. Every village was governed by the thane whose task was to make everybody obey the law and to guide his man to battle. There were no prisons, the criminals where mutilated, hanged or submitted to a trial by ordeal.

Then Alice woke up, discovering that it was only a dream, and sometimes a nightmare.
The language used is very simple, because the will of the author was to give this book as a present to a little child, and so, very often, he invented strange words like “rocking-dragonfly”, a mix between a rocking-horse and a dragonfly....