Middle English Writers and their works

Middle English Writers and their works

In this post, I am gonna summarize the name of Middle English literature Writers and their works:

Poetry

1. Geoffrey Chaucer

a)  The Canterbury Tales 

b)  Troylus and Crysede

 c)  The Legend of Good Women

2. William Langland - The Vision of Pier's the Ploughman

3. Anonymous writers: 

a) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight   b) Pearl      c) Patience

Prose works:

1.  Richard Rolle

- The Form of Perfect Living

2.  John Wycliffe - Translated some parts of Bible into English and helped it to publish in English.

3. Thomas Malory

-  Arthur's Death

Types of Dramas:

1 Miracle or mystery plays – described about the lives of Saints, religious in themes, stories from Bible

2 Morality plays – taught moral lessons, abstractions personified

3 Interludes – provided comic relief between two acts of a play