Early Modern English - ✔✔ 1500-1800 (some say 1450-1750)
forms the base of the grammatical and orthographical conventions that survive in Modern
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The Renaissance
The Neoclassical Period
Start of Romantic Period
Elizebethan Age - ✔✔ 1558-1603
Considered the height of the English Renaissance
Medieval tradition
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Ben Johnson
The Renaissance - ✔✔ 1500-1660
Elizebethan Age
Jacobean Age
Caroline Age
Commonwealth Period
Jacobean Age - ✔✔ 1603-1625
Sophisticated and full of rivalry
King James Bible, poetry and prose of John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and Andrew Marvel
Caroline Age - ✔✔ 1625-1649
Poets & Dramatists
Commonwealth Period - ✔✔ 1649-1660
Theaters on moral and religious grounds were closed for 18 years
The Neoclassical Period - ✔✔ 1660-1785
Heavily influenced by French literature of the day and is known for its use of philosophy, reason, skepticism, wit, and refinement
Restoration
Augustan Age
Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)
Restoration - ✔✔ 1660-1700
Prose, poetry, comedy. Milton, John Dryfen, 'john Locke
Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) - ✔✔ 1700-1745
Refinement, clarity, elegance, balanced judgement, Johnathan Swifti, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe
Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson) - ✔✔ 1745- 1785
instinct, feeling rather than judgement and restraint. Medieval ballads, folk literature. Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fieldings
Vowel Shift - ✔✔ A major factor separating Middle English from Modern English is known as the Great Vowel Shift, a radical change in pronunciation during the 15th, 16th and 17th Century, as a result of which long vowel sounds began to be made higher and further forward in the mouth (short vowel sounds were largely unchanged)
• a: > [e] name
• e: > [i] fete > feet
• 3: > [e] grete > great
• [i:] > [ai] ride > ride
• o: > [u} boote > boot
• boot > boat
• [u:] > [au] hus > house
Vocabulary - ✔✔ The additions to English vocabulary during this period were deliberate borrowings. A whole category of words ending with the Greek-based suffixes "-ize" and "-ism" were also introduced around this time.
English - ✔✔ by the end of the 16th Century, this language had finally become widely accepted as a language of learning, equal if not superior to the classical languages.
Printing Press - ✔✔
Book of Common Prayer - ✔✔ 1549
The first version of ______ of the Church of England is published and introduced into English churches
Thomas Wilson - ✔✔ 1553
Publishes The Art of Rhetorique, one of the first works on logic and rhetoric in English.
Elizabeth - ✔✔ 1558
Becomes Queen
William Bullokar's Pamphlet for Grammar - ✔✔ 1586
This is the first grammar of English published.
William Shakespeare - ✔✔ 1590-1611
Writes his Sonnets and the majority of his plays.
Romeo & Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
A Summer's Night
Othello [Show Less]