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1、英国文学史Part one: Early and Medieval English LiteratureChapter 1 The Making of England1. The early inhabitants in the island now we call England were Britons, a tribe of Gelts.2. In 55 B.C., Britain was invaded by Julius Caesar. The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years. It was also during the Ro
2、man role that Christianity was introduced to Britain. And in 410 A.D., all the Roman troops went back to the continent and never returned.3. The English Conquest At the same time Britain was invaded by swarms of pirates(海盗). They were three tribes from Northern Europe: the Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
3、And by the 7th century these small kingdoms were bined into a United Kingdom called England, or, the land of Angles. And the three dialects spoken by them naturally grew into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.4. The Social Condition of the Anglo-Saxon Therefore, the Anglo-Saxon pe
4、riod witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism.5. Anglo-Saxon Religious Belief and Its Influence The Anglo-Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century.Chapter 2 Beowulf1. Anglo-Saxon Poetry But there is one long poem of over 3,000 lines. It is Beowulf, the national epic of the Eng
5、lish people. Grendel is a monster described in Beowulf.3. Analysis of Its Content Beowulf is a folk lengend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes. It had been passed from mouth to mouth for hundreds of years before it was written down in the tenth century.4. Features of Beo
6、wulf The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration, metaphors and understatements.Chapter 3 Feudal England1) The Norman Conquest2. The Norman Conquest The French-speaking Normans under Duke William came in 1066. After defeating the English at Hastings, William was crowned
7、 as King of England. The Norman Conquest marks the establishment of feudalism in England.3. The Influence of the Norman Conquest on the English Language By the end of the fourteenth century, when Normans and English intermingled, English was once more the dominant speech in the country.3) The Romanc
8、e1. The Content of the Romance The most prevailing kind of literature in feudal England was the romance.4. Malorys Le Morte DArthur The adventures of the Knights of the Round Table at Arthurs courtChapter 5 The English Ballads2. The Ballads The most important department of English folk literature is
9、 the ballad. A ballad is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth lines rhymed.Of paramount importance are the ballads of Robin Hood.3. The Robin Hood BalladsChapter 6 Chaucer1. Life Geoffrey Chaucer, the founder/father of English poetry.3. Troilus and Criseyde Tro
10、ilus and Criseyde is Chaucers longest plete poem and his greatest artistic achievement. But the poet shows some sympathy for her, hitting that her fault springs from weakness rather than baseness of character.4. The Canterbury Tales The Canterbury Tales is Chaucers masterpiece and one of the monumen
11、tal works in English literature.6. His Language Chaucers language, now called Middle English, is vivid and exact. Chaucers contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic m
12、eter (the “the heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. The spoken English of the time consisted of several dialects, and Chaucer did much in making dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.Part Two: The English RenaissanceChapter 1 O
13、ld England in Transition1. The New Monarchy The century and a half following the death of Chaucer was full of great changes. And Henry 7, taking advantage of this situation, founded the Tudor dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie and so
14、won its support.2. The Reformation Protestantism The bloody religious persecution came to a stop after the church settlement of Queen Elizabeth.3. The English Bible William Tyndall Then appeared the Authorized Version, which was made in 1611 under the auspices of James I and so was sometimes called
15、the King James Bible. The result is a monument of English language and English literature. The standard modern English has been fixed and confirmed.4. The Enclosure Movement5. The mercial ExpansionChapter 2 More1. Life Thomas More2. Utopia Utopia is Mores masterpiece, written in the form of a conver
16、sation between More and Hythlody, a returned voyager. The name “Utopia” es from two Greek words meaning “no place”.3. Utopia, Book One Book One of Utopia is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the poverty among the laboring classes.4. Utopia, Book Two In Book Two we have a sk
17、etch of an ideal monwealth in some unknown ocean, where property is held in mon and there is no poverty.Chapter 3 The Flowering of English Literature3. Edmund Spenser1) Life The Poets Poet of the period was Edmund Spenser.In 1579 he wrote The Shephers Calendar, a pastoral poem in twelve books, one f
18、or each month of the year.2) The Faerie Queene (masterpiece) Spensers greatest work, The Faerie Queene (published in 1589-1596), is a long poem planned in 12 books, of which he finished only 6.iambic feet Spenserian Stanza4. Francis Bacon (father/founder of English essay) the founder of English Engl
19、ish materialist philosophy Bacon is also famous for his Essays. When it included 58 essays. Bacon is the first English essayist.Chapter 4 Drama7. The Playwrights There was a group of so-called “university wits” (Lyly, Peele, Marlowe, Greene, Lodge and Nash).Chapter 5 Marlowe1. Life The most gifted o
20、f the “university wits” was Christopher Marlowe.2. Work Marlowes best includes three of his plays, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus.3. Doctor Faustus Marlowes masterpiece is The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus.5. Marlowes Literary Achievement Marlowe was the greatest of the pionee
21、rs of English drama. It is Marlowe who first made blank verse (rhymeless iambic pentameter) the principal instrument of English drama.Chapter 6 Shakespeare1. Life William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. After his death, two of his above-mentioned fellow-actors, Herminge
22、 and Condell, collected and published Shakespeares plays in 1623. To this edition, which has been known as the First Folio.4. The Great edies A Midsummer Nights Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Twelfth Night have been called Shakespeares “great edies”.6. The Great Tragedies Shakespe
23、are created his great tragedies, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.7. Hamlet the son of the Renaissance9. The Poems1) Venus and Adonis2) The Rape of Lucrece3) Shakespeares Sonnets10. Features of Shakespeares Drama Shakespeare and the Authorized Version of the English Bible are the two greatest
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