HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

LORD BYRON - 5^C LINGUISTICO

George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (1728-1844) with his aristocratic behaviour, personal charm and unquestionable beauty stands out as a rock star poet and the prince of passionate people’s perceptions during the so-called Regency era in England (1792 – 1830).  

He is an immense poet, combining the best of Augustan wit and intellect with the best of sensuously and politically charged Romanticism. 
Lord Byron was described in his own time as ‘a child of passion and the fool of fame‘.

George Gordon Byron  -  life and works

 The outstanding Romantic

"She Walks in Beauty"

"She Walks in Beauty"  Presentation

JANE AUSTEN'S 250TH BIRTHDAY

 

Jane Austen, novelist, observer of human nature, and enduring voice of wit, romance, and social insight, was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England on 16 December 1775 and birthday celebrations have been taking place across the United Kingdom and the United States for months.  Here are some ways to celebrate the birth of one of England's most beloved authors.

Why we love Jane Austen more than ever after 250 years

Why I Love Jane Austen (And Why You Should Too)

JANE AUSTEN AND THE NOVEL OF MANNERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Jane Austen’s novels are unrivalled for their success in combining two sorts of excellence that all too seldom coexist. Meticulously conscious of her artistry, she is also constantly attentive to the realities of ordinary human existence. From the first, her works unite subtlety and common sense, good humour and acute moral judgment, charm and conciseness, deftly marshalled incidents and carefully rounded characters.

Jane Austen’s critics have spoken of her as a “limited” novelist, one who, writing in an age of great men and important events, portrays small towns and petty concerns, who knows (or reveals) nothing of masculine occupations and ideas, and who reduces the range of feminine thought and deed to matrimonial scheming and social pleasantry. Read here. 

OTHELLO - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.rsc.org.uk/othello/

https://www.slideserve.com/ismet/othello

ROMEO AND JULIET - 4^C LINGUISTICO

 

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone/romeo-and-juliet/story/scene-by-scene

https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/r/romeo-and-juliet/romeo-and-juliet-at-a-glance

https://www.gradesaver.com/romeo-and-juliet

THE SECRET GARDEN - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden has been described as “the most significant children’s book of the 20th century.”

First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time as simple and lacking “plenty of excitement”. The novel is, in fact, a sensitive and complex story, which explores how a relationship with nature can foster our emotional and physical well-being.  Read here.

You can read the book here.

https://www.gradesaver.com/the-secret-garden

https://api.macmillanenglish.com

https://fsharetv.cc/movie/the-secret-garden-episode-1-tt0108071

SHAKESPEARE LEARNING ZONE - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teaching-resources/teaching-secondary

https://www.rsc.org.uk/shakespeare-learning-zone

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2013/06/shakespeares-sonnets.html

https://lrcapuana.com/2016/03/18/980/

ROMANTICISM - 5^C LINGUISTICO

"The heart is the only true source of art, the language of a pure, child-like soul. Any creation not sprung from this origin can only be artifice. Every true work of art is conceived in a hallowed hour and born in a happy one, from an impulse in the artist's heart, often without his knowledge."

Caspar David Friedrich

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the period from 1800 to 1850. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalisation of nature.

Here you can find my previous posts about Romanticism.

THE RENAISSANCE - 4^C LINGUISTICO

The Renaissance was one of Europe’s most significant historical periods, and is often characterised by the magnificent outpouring of art, literature, and scientific developments witnessed between the 15th and 17th centuries.

During this time new ideas spread across the continent, focused on the possibilities of mankind, the achievements of the individual, and the teachings of the ancient world – pushing Europe out of the "Dark Ages" and towards a more enlightened and modern society.  Read here.

The  Renaissance  -  The historical background
General characteristics of the Renaissance

The chain of being

The English Renaissance

Queen Elizabeth I of England

Shakespearean London theatres

The  Elizabethan theatre

Renaissance drama

Here you can find some useful Powerpoint presentations.

FROM THE STUARTS TO THE HANOVERIANS

 

https://studylib.net/doc/26016821/from-the-stuarts-to-the-hanoverians

https://www.royal.uk/hanoverians

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/The17thcentury

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-augustan-age.html

 

JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLINERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

Dubliners by James Joyce was first published on 15 June 1914.

Though James Joyce began these stories of Dublin life in 1904 when he was twenty-two and completed them in 1907, their unconventional themes and language led to repeated rejections by publishers and delayed publication until 1914. His story The Dead has come to be seen as one of the most powerful evocations of human loss and longing that the English language possesses; all the other stories in Dubliners are as beautifully turned and as greatly admired. They remind us once again that James Joyce was not only Modernism’s chief innovator, but also one of its most intimate and poetic writers.

PAST HABITS - 2^C LINGUISTICO