| A | B |
| Classical | Greek and Roman--Homor, Sophocles, Aesop |
| Medieval | Old/ Beowulf, Late/ Chaucer |
| Renaissance | Spencer, Shakespeare--Includes the Elizabethans! |
| The Reformation | Milton |
| Enlightenment | Samuel Johnson, Thomas Jefferson, Swift, Ben Franklin |
| Romantic | Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelley, Poe |
| Victorian | Browning (Robert and Elizabeth), Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dickens, Bronte |
| Modern | Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Auden, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Langston Hughes |
| Post Modern | Elliot, Beckett, Pynchon, Zora Neal Hurston |
| Medieval drama has what kind of plays? | Miracle and morality |
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