SHAKESPEARE IN POPULAR CULTURE

 

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/shakespeare-in-popular-culture/

https://notesread.com/why-is-shakespeare-still-relevant-today/

https://www.oxfordscholastica.com/blog/creative-writing-articles/why-is-shakespeare-still-important/

https://www.abc.net.au/education/btn-why-shakespeare-is-still-relevant-today/13924758

THE MODERN AGE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

 

JAMES JOYCE'S DUBLINERS - 5^C LINGUISTICO

 

https://www.raicultura.it/letteratura/James-Joyce.html

https://www.raicultura.it/letteratura/articoli.html

https://myblog-inplainenglish.blogspot.com/2020/06/james-joyces-dubliners.html

https://prezi.com/p/lc0j49guwrja/dubliners-english-presentation/

GEORGE ORWELL - 5^C LINGUISTICO

George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair on 25 June 1903 in eastern India, the son of a British colonial civil servant. He was educated in England and, after he left Eton, joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, then a British colony. He resigned in 1927 and decided to become a writer. In 1928, he moved to Paris where lack of success as a writer forced him into a series of menial jobs. He described his experiences in his first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, published in 1933. He took the name George Orwell, shortly before its publication. This was followed by his first novel, Burmese Days, in 1934.

An anarchist in the late 1920s, by the 1930s he had begun to consider himself a socialist. In 1936, he was commissioned to write an account of poverty among unemployed miners in northern England, which resulted in The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). Late in 1936, Orwell travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists. He was forced to flee in fear of his life from Soviet-backed communists who were suppressing revolutionary socialist dissenters. The experience turned him into a lifelong anti-Stalinist.

Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of The Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. By now he was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.

In 1945, Orwell's Animal Farm was published. A political fable set in a farmyard, but based on Stalin's betrayal of the Russian Revolution, it made Orwell's name and ensured he was financially comfortable for the first time in his life. Nineteen Eighty-Four was published four years later. Set in an imaginary totalitarian future, the book made a deep impression, with its title and many phrases - such as "Big Brother is watching you", "newspeak" and "doublethink" - entering popular use. By now Orwell's health was deteriorating and he died of tuberculosis on 21 January 1950.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/orwell_george.shtml

PDF Presentation

https://fsharetv.co/movie/1984-episode-1-tt0087803

BEOWULF - 3^C LINGUISTICO

Here you can find a very detailed analysis of this Anglo-Saxon epic poem. Click here to download a PDF presentation to revise it.

ENGLISH LITERATURE LESSONS

 

Why is English literature so important in schools? Read here.

Here you can find several useful videos dedicated to English literature.

GLOSSARY OF POETRY TERMS

Glossary of Poetry Terms

Poetic Devices 

Literary Terms 

Figures of speech

INSIGHT INTO THE VICTORIAN AGE - 5^C LINGUISTICO

The Victorian period in Great Britain (1837-1901)  was one of political stability, huge industrial and technological change, major economic development, prosperity, optimism and faith in progress as well as poverty and social unrest, shocking divisions between the rich and the poor, and grand attempts to combat squalor and disease.  

Click here to download a PDF presentation.

JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

Pride and Prejudice is one of the most popular novels in the English language. Over 200 years after its publication, it continues to win the hearts and minds of readers around the world, thanks to its delightful heroine, unforgettable cast of comic characters, witty dialogue, and satisfying romantic plot.

Read here.

SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS - 4^C LINGUISTICO

https://nosweatshakespeare.com/sonnets/ 

https://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/sonnets/section1/

BRIGHT STAR - 5^C LINGUISTICO

 

"Bright Star" is a sonnet written by the Romantic poet John Keats as a homage to his beloved Fanny Brawne. 

It is primarily made up of two analogies. The first analogy is a negative one, where the poet describes the aspect of the star that he doesn’t wish to resemble. The second analogy is a positive one, where the poet explains the aspect of the star that he aspires to be like — namely, steadfast loyalty to his beloved.

https://www.eminentediting.com/post/bright-star-by-john-keats-analysis

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.

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.