Great Authors of the British Isles

Great Authors of the British Isles introduces the extraordinary body of English literature with such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, J. K. Rowling and more.

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Streaming License includes all individual programs listed below, as well as downloadable supplemental files.	GBA	$220.00/yr
Individual Programs	SKU	Term	Price
Program 1: Beowulf to Shakespeare 8th Century AD - Beowulf 14th Century - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1387 - 1400 - Geoffrey Chaucer Writes The Canterbury Tales 1594 - Shakespeare Pens Romeo and Juliet	GBA-001	$27.50/yr
Program 2: The Renaissance Writers 1581 - Sir Francis Bacon, Renaissance Man 1587 - Christopher Marlowe Writes Tamburlaine the Great 1590 - Edmund Spenser Publishes The Faerie Queene 1592 - Sir Walter Ralegh's The Ocean to Cynthia 1598 - Ben Jonson Establishes a New Kind of Comedy 1631 - John Donne Delivers His Own Death Sermon 1658 - John Milton Begins Paradise Lost	GBA-002	$27.50/yr
Program 3: Augustan and Romantic Poets 1681 - The Age of Dryden Begins 1712 - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 1755 - Dr Johnson Completes A Dictionary of the English Language 1786 - Robert Burns' Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect 1819 - Lord Byron Pens Don Juan 1790 - 1830 - The Four Romantic Poets 1850 - Wordsworth's Spiritual Autobiography Ends 1850 - Alfred Lord Tennyson is Made Poet Laureate of England 1864 - The Brownings	GBA-003	$27.50/yr
Program 4: Early Novelists 1679 - John Bunyan, Father of the English Novel 1749 - Henry Fielding Writes Tom Jones 1813 - Pride and Prejudice, a Novel by Jane Austen 1819 - Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe 1837 - Charles Dickens Begins Oliver Twist 1847 - The Bronte Sisters 1886 - Robert Louis Stevenson Introduces Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde	GBA-004	$27.50/yr
Program 5: Children's Literature 1719 - Daniel Defoe Pens Robinson Crusoe 1865 - Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1901 - Beatrix Potter Publishes The Tale of Peter Rabbit 1926 - A.A. Milne Creates Winnie the Pooh 1937 - J.R.R. Tolkien Writes The Hobbit 1961 - James and the Giant Peach, a Title by Roald Dahl 1997 - J.K. Rowling Introduces Harry Potter	GBA-005	$27.50/yr
Program 6: The Genre Innovators 1818 - Mary Shelley Gives Rise to Frankenstein 1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Introduces Sherlock Holmes 1895 - H.G. Wells, The Time Machine 1932 - 1948 - Huxley and Orwell Pen Dystopian Novels 1934 - Agatha Christie, First Woman of Detective Fiction 1953 - Ian Fleming Writes the First Bond Spy Thriller	GBA-006	$27.50/yr
Program 7: 20th Century Poets and Playwrights 1907 - Rudyard Kipling Wins Nobel Prize 1920 - John Galsworthy's The Skin Game is Performed 1922 - T.S. Eliot, Intellectual Giant 1937 - The '30s Poets 1953 - Dylan Thomas, Larger - Than - Life Poet, Dies 2005 - Harold Pinter Wins the Nobel Prize	GBA-007	$27.50/yr
Program 8: 20th Century Novelists 1902 - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness 1922 - Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Group 1924 - E. M. Forster Writes A Passage to India 1928 - D.H. Lawrence Shocks the World 1944 - W. Somerset Maugham's Prophetic The Razor's Edge 1954 - William Golding Writes Lord of the Flies 1969 - John Fowles, The Existentialist 2007 - Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize Winner	GBA-008	$27.50/yr

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Great Authors of the British Isles