Importance Of Chaucer And Shakespeare To The Engli

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| History of English Speaking Societies ------------------------------------------------- Manuel Ángel Castro Lizárraga Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa Importance of Shakespeare and Chaucer for English Languages in Renaissance Culiacán Rosales, Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico December 2011 Abstract In this review I will expose the reasons that support the idea that Chaucer and Shakespeare have been the most significant contributors to the English Language. This work is based in a previous task that we did in the course of History of English Speaking Societies in this BA. The word "Renaissance" has its origin in the French language and it means "rebirth”. It refers to a renascence of humanism during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries in Europe. It began in Italy and was quickly spread to the rest of that continent: France, Netherlands, England, Portugal, Croatia, Spain, Germany, Hungary, Poland and Russia. This cultural movement had an enormous impact in the rest of the humanity until these actual days. In Renaissance, religions and philosophy, and overall the fine arts, like literature, philosophy, science and technology, architecture. For example on this period, Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy and Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Also, in this period the Italian Giordano Bruno died in 1600 due his ideas about the reincarnation being a Dominican fray. Talking about English Language, Renaissance marked the bottom of the Modern English Period. Before of this, during the Middle English Period, which is one of the periods we will study in this review, we can talk about Geoffrey Chaucer, who is well known just with his last name, is considered the Father of English Literature, and is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Age. He is well known by a lot of people as the author of "The Canterbury Tales", which
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