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FROM MIDDLE AGES (1000-1500) TO RENAISSANCE During the Middle Ages there were two kind of drama:   RELIGIOUS DRAMA: short plays acted outside in front of the churches after the mass. They had to be understood also by illiterate pe ...

From Modernism to Pop Art THE TWENTIETH CENTURY It is a period full of changes from life style side and from the new centrality of mans subconscious with desires and fears. Art is changing too. Here rise different styles character ...

Neoclassicism Romanticism reason feelings and passion wit, elegance simple, clear and easy style realism imagination, mystery ex ...

From Prehistoric Britain to the Germanic invasions The Celts The invasion in great Britain started during the bronze age while the Celts arrived form central Europe I great Britain in iron age. They were organized in tribes and the ...

From the Napoleonic wars to the regency Even if the French revolution is a French project it involved all Europe. Some people among intellectual accepted these new political ideas while some people continued to have a conservative ideas. In ...

Galles 1 INTRODUZIONE Galles (inglese Wales; gallese Cymru), regione storico-geografica del Regno Unito di Gran Bretagna e Irlanda del Nord; occupa una vasta penisola posta sul versant ...

Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' INTRODUZIONE Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand 'Mahatma' (Porbandar 1869 - New Delhi 1948), pensatore, uomo politico e leader nazionalista indiano, il cui contributo fu fondamentale per ...

Geoffrey Chaucer English poet, born in London between 1340 and 1345; died there, 25 October, 1400. John Chaucer, a vintner and citizen of London, married Agnes, heiress of one Hamo de Copton, the city moneyer, and owned the house in Upper T ...

Geoffrey Chaucer Geoffrey Chaucer was born in 1343, his father was a wine merchant of London. Surely his intention was towards a new and higher position in society, so he followed the Edwards III son to war in France where he was taken pris ...

GEOGRAPHY Scotland lies to the north of England and its population is about five million. This is mainly because it is very montainous country and many areas are uninhabited. It can be divided into three regions: the H ...

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: AN UNSOCIAL SOCIALIST Shaw was born in Dublin on July 26, 1856. His father was an unsuccessful middle-class businessman; His mother was a good singer who left Dublin and wen ...

George Gordon, Lord Byron   Lord Byron was born in London in 1788. His father, John, was a libertine who squandered the fortunes of his first wife as well as those of his second, Byrons mother. Even his second marriage was unhap ...

GEORGE ORWELL 1984 In this work, set in the future because written in 1948, Orwell imagines that world had been divided in three parts: Oceania (which consists of England, North America, South Africa and Australia), Eastasia ...

GEORGE ORWELL (1903 1950) George Orwell, pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in Motihari, India, as the second child of Richard Walmesley Blair and Ida Mabel Limonzin. His father was a civil servant in the opium department and his mot ...

GEORGE ORWELL 1984 I n 1984 Orwell creates a dystopian novel, i. e. a fictional world in which he describes a nightmarish organization called Ingsoc, English Socialism. This expression contains a bit of ...

GEORGE ORWELL 1984     LIFE Blair was born on June 25, 1903 in Motihari, Bengal (modern Bihar), in India. His mother, brought him to the United Kingdom at the age of one. He did not see his father again until 1907, whe ...

GEORGE ORWELL The real name of Gorge Orwell was Eric Blair. He was born in India in 1903 and he was a son of an English minor colonial official. When he was a child he was taken to England by his mother and he was educated at Eton where he ...

George Orwell: animal farm The author and his times George Orwell was a quiet, decent Englishman who passionately hated two things: inequality and political lying. Out of his hatred of inequality came a desire for a society in which c ...

GITA AL FARO di Virginia Woolf Questo romanzo di Virginia Woolf racconta di una famiglia, i Ramsay; tutti in quella casa aspettano la gita al faro progettata per il giorno dopo, soprattutto lultimogenito James. Ma la gita non si far ...

GLOBALIZATION When coming to use the term globalization we usally refer to a complex economic phenomenon for wich the world as a whole isshould be could be an unic market, in which there is a exchange of goods-meant as financial esta ...