Elizabeth I

(Greenwich, Current UK, 1533 - Richmond, id., 1603) Queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1558-1603). Daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I lived as a child political intrigue and religious factions of pretenders to the throne. Following the execution of his mother in 1536, Parliament declared illegitimate, but he restored their rights to the crown eight years later, during the reign of his brother Edward VI. On the death of Edward ascended the throne Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, and Isabella was imprisoned as part of the campaign unleashed against the Protestants.

William shekespeare

(Stratford on Avon, UK, 1564-id., 1616) Playwright and poet. Three of the eight children of John Shakespeare, a wealthy merchant and local politician and Mary Arden, whose family had suffered religious persecution resulting from their Catholic faith, little or nothing is known about the childhood and adolescence of William Shakespeare. It seems likely to study in the Grammar School in his hometown, although it is unknown how many years and in what circumstances.

According to a contemporary of his, William Shakespeare learned "small Latin and less Greek," and in any case it seems also likely to leave school early because of the difficulties that his father was going through, whether they derived from their economic or political career .

Shakespearean comedy Among the essential characteristics of the Shakespearean comedy we find the humor, the dialectics of a language full of puns, the contrast between opposing characters by social class, sex, gender and power (a typical example would be The Taming of the Shrew, also translated into times as The Taming of the brave), the erotic allusions and connotations, the costumes and the tendency to spread chaos and confusion to the story line leads to the recovery of the lost and the corresponding restoration in the framework of natural. The picture of the comedy is also exploring a society where all members are equally studied in a very different society as seen in their historical works, mounted on the Machiavellian pursuit of power ("sand ladder" because of its emptiness of content) and disruption of the cosmic order that the king represents God on earth. As a gallery of social types of comedy, then, is a larger space in Shakespeare's tragic and historic and better reflects the society of his time, but also highlights in this field the author's talent for creating characters specifically individualized, as the archetype of the jester and sanchopancesco called Falstaff. While the tone of the plot is often burlesque, sometimes it is a disturbing element latent tragic, as in The Merchant of Venice. When addresses issues that can trigger a tragic denouement, Shakespeare comes to teaching, in the usual manner, without bias, to propose remedies or moralize or preach at all, the risks of vice, wickedness and irrationality of human beings without fall into the destruction that appears in his tragedies and let the order of nature and restorative sleep.

A Farewell to False Love Farewell false love, the oracle of lies,  A mortal foe and enemy to rest,  An envious boy, from whom all cares arise,  A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed,  A way of error, a temple full of treason,  In all effects contrary unto reason.  A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers,  Mother of sighs, and murderer of repose,  A sea of sorrows whence are drawn such showers  As moisture lend to every grief that grows;  A school of guile, a net of deep deceit,  A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait.  A fortress foiled, which reason did defend,  A siren song, a fever of the mind,  A maze wherein affection finds no end,  A raging cloud that runs before the wind,  A substance like the shadow of the sun,  A goal of grief for which the wisest run.  A quenchless fire, a nurse of trembling fear,  A path that leads to peril and mishap,  A true retreat of sorrow and despair,  An idle boy that sleeps in pleasure's lap,  A deep mistrust of that which certain seems,  A hope of that which reason doubtful deems.  Sith* then thy trains my younger years betrayed,[since]  And for my faith ingratitude I find;  And sith repentance hath my wrongs bewrayed*,[revealed]  Whose course was ever contrary to kind*:[nature]  False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu.  Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.  Sir Walter Raleigh

A Farewell to False Love Farewell false love, the oracle of lies,  A mortal foe and enemy to rest,  An envious boy, from whom all cares arise,  A bastard vile, a beast with rage possessed,  A way of error, a temple full of treason,  In all effects contrary unto reason.  A poisoned serpent covered all with flowers,  Mother of sighs, and murderer of repose,  A sea of sorrows whence are drawn such showers  As moisture lend to every grief that grows;  A school of guile, a net of deep deceit,  A gilded hook that holds a poisoned bait.  A fortress foiled, which reason did defend,  A siren song, a fever of the mind,  A maze wherein affection finds no end,  A raging cloud that runs before the wind,  A substance like the shadow of the sun,  A goal of grief for which the wisest run.  A quenchless fire, a nurse of trembling fear,  A path that leads to peril and mishap,  A true retreat of sorrow and despair,  An idle boy that sleeps in pleasure's lap,  A deep mistrust of that which certain seems,  A hope of that which reason doubtful deems.  Sith* then thy trains my younger years betrayed,[since]  And for my faith ingratitude I find;  And sith repentance hath my wrongs bewrayed*,[revealed]  Whose course was ever contrary to kind*:[nature]  False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu.  Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.  Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh

 

Sir Walter Raleigh was a sailor, pirate, English writer and politician, who popularized the snuff in Europe. In Spanish classical literature was known as Guantarral.

Ally from the beginning to the side of Queen Elizabeth I, fought tenaciously against the Irish rebels, conceived the project of colonizing North America, founded in 1584 the colony of Virginia (the first map was drawn by the mathematician Thomas Harriot, who accompanied him) contributed to the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and fought to restore the throne to the king of Portugal (1589).

Raleigh was made governor of Jersey during the pariod 1600-1603, and was responsible for modernizing the defenses of the island. He called the new fort in St. Helier Fort Isabella Bellissima, known later as Elizabeth Castle. Participated in a second expedition to the Orinoco in search of the mythical El Dorado.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales (in English, The Canterbury Tales) is a work of English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, which has a structure similar to the Decameron of Boccaccio. The stories were written during the fourteenth century.

The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England. It was the last work of Geoffrey Chaucer. The version of the work that prevails today is derived from two different English manuscripts: the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.

The stories, sritten in Middle English (some original, some not, two prose writings, and the rest in verse), are contained in a larger narrative and are counted by a group of pilgrims traveling from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the temple of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.