Alhassanain(p) Network for Heritage and Islamic Thought

MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE

This book is corrected and edited by Al-Hassanain (p) Institue for Islamic Heritage and Thought

• Background
• The Early Period
• The Thirteenth Century
• The Fourteenth Century
• Pearl
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1375 - 1400)
• WILLIAM LANGLAND ( c. 1330 - 1387)
• Piers Plowman
• Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 - 1400)
• Early Works
• Italian Period
• The Canterbury Tales - portrait of real people
• John Gower (c. 1330? - 1408) - English poet
• SIR THOMAS MALORY (c. 1405 - 1471)
• King Arthur - Legendary Character / Royalty
• The Fifteenth Century
• WILLIAM CAXTON AND THE INTRODUCTION OF PRINTING TO ENGLAND, 1476
• The Medieval Drama
• TROPES, LITURGICAL PLAYS, AND MYSTERY PLAYS
• THE MORALITY PLAYS
• THE INTERLUDES
• THE LATER INFLUENCE OF THE MEDIEVAL DRAMA