inglese 4F

A.S. 2015/2016
INSEGNANTE: ESPOSITO MARINA
PROGRAMMA DI INGLESE
William Shakespeare
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Life;
Shakespeare’s sonnets: “Shall I compare thee”(sonnet XVIII); “My mistress’ eyes”
(sonnet CXXX);
Macbeth: “ The three Witches” (act I, scene I); “A tale told by an idiot” (act V, scene
V). Visione del film al cinema Politeama, Frascati.
The Puritan Age
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Charles I’s reign;
The Civil War and the Commonwealth;
The Puritan mind;
John Milton: life, Aeropagitica, Paradise Lost;
Texts: “ The Freedoom of Press” (Aeropagitica); “Satan’s Speech” ( Paradise Lost,
Book I, Lines 242-270).
The Restoration
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The Restoration of the Monarchy ;
The Glorious Revolution;
Scientific rigour and intellectual calrity;
The Augustan Age
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The early Hanoverians;
Reason and sense;
Journalism;
The rise of the novel;
The features of a narrative text;
Daniel Defoe: life, Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders;
Texts: “Evil vs Good” (Robinson Crusoe); “ Man Friday” (Robinson Crusoe); “Molly
becomes a thief” (Moll Flanders);
Jonathan Swift: life, Gulliver’s Travels
Texts: “ Gulliver in the land of giants” (book 2, chapter 3); “ The Laputians” ( book 3,
chapter 2).
-The novel of manners
Jane Austen (spettacolo teatrale e lettura del testo)
Civilization
Human Rights
British and American political system
American Election
Grottaferrata 3 giufno 2016
Prof.ssa Marina Esposito