Lingue

Romantic referred to aspects of nature inspiring admiring feelings while sublime referred to aspects inspiring feelings of awe.
Ann Radcliffe married the manager of The English Chronicle and travelled widely with him.
2 main emotional aspects prevail: horror & sentiment. Good & bad. Full of apparently supernatural events which are later rational

- the crown cannot change a law nor keep an army without Parliament's consent;
- Parliament can leave taxes & control over governmaent finance;
- Parliament is freely elected and it enjoys freedom of speech;
- 1701 addiction: only protestant heirs can ascend the throne;
Robert Walpole (Prime minister - mercantile expansion - British Empi

A Cervantes no se le considera buen poeta. Su obra dramбtica tambiйn ha sufrido comparaciones gravosas, pero las dos comedias: Los tratos de Argel y La Numancia, alcanzaron gran resonancia.
Tambiйn escribiу ocho entremeses; Los entremeses de Cervantes, de cronologнa desconocida, no debieron ser representados en su йpoca; utilizу en ellos un

Chaucer's literary activity is often divided into three periods.
The first period includes his early work (to 1370), which is based on French models, especially the Roman de la Rose, and the poems of Guillaume de Machaut.
Chaucer's second period (about 1387) is called Italian period because during this time his works were modeled primarily on D

Preposizioni di tempo

in: davanti ai mesi (in June)
davanti alle stagioni (in the summer)
davanti agli anni (in 1979)
davanti a morning, afternoon, evening

at: davanti ai pasti (at breakfast)
davanti a night
davanti al periodo delle vacanze (at Easter)

for: per indicare un...

Drama in the English Renaissance
During the reign of Henry VII Drama was still
Medieval. In 1548 the festival of Corpus Christi
was suppressed and Mysteries continued to be
performed on other religious festival.
During the of Elizabeth Drama flourished and
became amajor genre for English writers.
The new a...

In 1961 he was found dead in his own house, killed by his shootgun, and no one still knows if he committed sucide or it was only an unintentional accident.
1) THE SHORT HAPPY LIFE OF FRANCIS MACOMBER
Characters : Francis Macomber, the main character, Margaret Macomber, his wife, and Robert Wilson, a hunter.
Summary : With this short story He

stanzas which traditionally rhyme abab.
We have read The Unquiet Grave; it is a ballad about a young man who doesn’t
accept the death of his woman. The man to sit on her grave and crys for a one
year and a day because he desire one kiss. There is a tragical dialogue between
two lovers: first there is a monologue of man then the voice of

In 1534 he became the King of the Church in England
with the Act of Supremacy.
Few people dared raise their voices against the schism
and paid with his life. After his divorce, Henry VIII mar-
ried Anne Boleyn who gave birth to a daughter, Elizabeth.
The King died in 1547 and his two successors are
Edward VI and Mary Tudor, but t

Anglo-Saxon society was based on the family unit which branched
out to the clan, the tribe and the kingdom.
The code of values was based on courage, loyalty of the people to
their ruler and the generosity of the ruler to them.
Towards the end of 6th century Christianity began to spread and
Saint Agustine established a monastery at Ca