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The Modern Age
- George Orwell (1903 / 1950)
- George Orwell - 1984
- James Joyce (1882 / 1941)
- James Joyce - Dubliners
- Samuel Beckett
- Samuel Beckett - Waiting for Godot
- Samuel Beckett - Way of writing
- The historical period
- The Interior Monologue

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The Restoration
- John Milton
- John Milton - Paradise Lost
- The Drama
- The historical period
- The Petrarchian and the English Sonnet
- The Puritans
- William Shakespeare
- William Shakespeare - Hamlet
- William Shakespeare - Macbeth
- William Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

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The Romantic Age 1760/1837
- Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
- French Revolution - Napoleonic Wars
- George IV and William IV
- Jane Austen
- John Keats
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The American Revolution (1775/83)
- The Industrial Revolution
- The Romantic Literary Movement
- William Blake
- William Wordsworth

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The Victorian Age
- Aestheticism: Art of art's sake
- Charles Dickens (1812 / 1870)
- Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist - David Copperfield
- Oscar Wilde (1854 / 1900)
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The historical period

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