Culture of Great Britain

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Culture of Great Britain

CONTENTS

1Artistic and cultural life in Britain.

2Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren.

3Westminster Abbey.

4St. Paul’s Cathedral.

5The Tower of London.

6Festivals of music and drama.

7The Bath Festival.

8The Chichester Theatre Festival.

9The Welsh Eisteddfod.

10The Edinburg Festival.

11The national musical instrument of the Scots.

12 Music and musicians.

13 Art Galleries.

14 The art of acting.

15 British Drama Theatre today.

CULTURE of GREAT BRITAIN

Artistic and Cultural Life in Britain

Artistic and cultural life in Britain is rather rich. It passed several main stages in its development.

The Saxon King Alfred encouraged the arts and culture. The chief debt owed to him by English literature is for his translations of and commentaries on Latin works. Art, culture and literature flowered during the Elizabethan age, during the reign of Elizabeth I; it was the period of English domination of the oceans.

It was at this time that William Shakespeare lived.

The empire, which was very powerful under Queen Victoria, saw another cultural and artistic hey-day as a result of industrialisation and the expansion of international trade.

But German air raids caused much damage in the First World War and then during the Second World War. The madness of the wars briefly interrupted the development of culture.