Liceo Eleonora d’Arborea
Liceo linguistico, umanistico, economico-sociale
PROGRAMMA SVOLTO - LINGUA E CULTURA INGLESE
Classe: 4CL A.s. 2020/21 Docenti:
prof.ssa Sara Carlini prof. Stephen Keith McComas
LETTERATURA
The Renaissance and the Age of Shakespeare
Historical and Social Background
The Tudors:
- Henry VII and the national monarchy - Henry VIII
- The short reign of Eduard VI - Bloody Mary
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Elisabethan England:
- Elisabeth I (An enlightened monarch, The Middleton Way, Foreign policy) - A formidable rival - Mary Queen of Scots
- The War with Spain
William Shakespeare
- The official version of Shakespeare ‘s life - The first Folio,
- Shakespeare ‘s Canon
Romeo and Juliet:
- Sources - Plot
- Main themes
- Main characters - Dramatic technique - “The balcony scene”
Hamlet:
- Sources - Plot
- Main themes
- The main character - “To be or not to be”
Puritan and Restoration Literature The Age of Classicism
Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift - Life
- A misanthropist and a satirist
Gulliver’s Travels:
- Plot
- Through the eyes of Lemuel Gulliver
- A hymn to Relativism - A variety of meanings
Christmas Holidays A Plastic Ocean
Present continuous vs Present simple State and Dynamic verbs
Movie: The other Boleyn girl