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Lecture 7
The Theme: THE LITERATURE OF THE 15th CENTURY
The Plan

1. 
   William Caxton (1422 – 1491)(.
   
2. 
   Folk Songs and ballads.
   
3. 
   The Robin Hood ballads.
   

Literature
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THE LITERATURE OF THE 15th CENTURY
The Wars of the Roses. The death of Chaucer was a great blow to English poetry. It took two centuries to produce a poet equal to him. The Hundred Years' War ended, but another misfortune betel the country: in 1455 a feudal war broke out between the descendants o Edward ni, which is known as the Wars of the Roses. The feud turned into a bitter struggle for the crown, each party splitting up into smaller parties that murdered every likely heir to the throne. The commons tool little part in the struggle. Anarchy reigned, making the exchange c! knowledge almost impossible. " deed, it was impossible for other "; continue the work Chaucer had begun while the people suffered from con tinual war and remained completely ignorant.
WILLIAM CAXTON (1422–1491)
In his early youth William Caxton was an apprentice to a company of London dealers in silk and wool lei cloth. Later, he lived in Flanders in the town of Bruges, where h worked as a hand-copier of book for the royal family. He was learned man and translated French histories into English. Wheel on business in Cologne , a German town, he learned tb art of printing. In 1476 Caxton set up the first printing-press ii Westminster.
Two years later, after Caxton had attracted public notice, a second printing-press was set up at Oxford. During the next fifteen years Caxton printed sixty-five works, both translations and originals. The works of Chaucer were also printed with great care.