Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 17 AIL 1644 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Seventeenth Century's Later Half
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The idea
The band runs past Shakespeare's death to Milton's. Donne's later work, Milton's epic and a changing theatre all belong to it. Treating the band as one moment misses that it spans roughly a century of considerable change.
In practice
The band spans a century.
Where people slip
Not one moment but a range.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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