BRIT LIT TIMELINE

Anglo-Saxon period

AD 449

Medieval Period

AD 1066

The Renaissance

1485

Romantic Age

1789

Victorian Age

1832

Modern Age

1901

Beowulf

Written during the Anglo Saxon Period

Author Unknown

Responsible for the telling of Beowulf

Le Morte D'Arthur

Written During the Medieval Period (Stories of King Arthur)

Sir Thomas Mallory

wrote Le Morte D'Arthur

The Canterbury Tails

Written During the Medieval Period (Pilgrim Voyage)

Geoffrey Chaucer

wrote the Canterbury Tales

Macbeth

Written during the Renaissance

William Shakespeare

Wrote Macbeth

Frankenstein

Written During the Romantic Age (Connects to Prometheus)

Mary Shelly

Wrote Frankenstein

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Romantic Age poem alluded in Frankenstein

Samuel Tyler Coleridge

Wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Tiger

Romantic Age Poem (We read it one time and It's on our \****ing final)

William Blake

Wrote the Tiger

Alice in Wonderland

Victorian Age Story (Girl falls down a rabbit hole)

Lewis Carroll

Wrote Alice In Wonderland

The Importance of being Earnest

Victorian Age Story (Both main characters marry their cousins)

Oscar Wilde

Wrote The Importance of Being Earnest

The Adventure of the Speckled Band & A Case of Identity

Victorian Age Stories (Sherlock Holmes)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Wrote Sherlock Holmes

Lord of the Flies

Modern Age Story (Island of Boys)

William Goulding

Author of Lord of the Flies

Pygmalion

Modern Age Story (Flower Girl)

George Bernard Shaw

Wrote Pygmalion