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Sixteenth-Century Prose;I. Non-fiction Prose;3. Sir Thomas Elyot (ca. 1490-1546) The Boke named the Governour (1531) It is the attempt to introduce into English life an ideal of the many-sided culture 4. Richard Hooker (1553-1600) Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity政体；国体 5. Sir Philip Sidney The Defence of Poesy为诗辩护 (1580’s; pub 1595) ;Thomas Elyot and Richard Hooker ;II. Fiction Prose ;Witty, clever, and sparkling at all costs, Lyly takes especial pains to balance his sentences and clauses antithetically, phrase against phrase and often word against word, sometimes emphasizing the balance also by an exaggerated use of alliteration and assonance谐音. ;2. Thomas Nashe The Unfortunate Traveler (1594) was a realistic tale of adventure narrated with speed and economy. The book describes the travels through Germany and Italy of its rogue hero流氓英雄, Jacke Wilton, who lives by his wits and witnesses all sorts of historic events before he is converted to a better way of life. ;Nashe makes full use of the flexibility灵活性of colloquial speech and delights in nonsense, redundancy人浮于事, and disconcerting令人不安的；打扰人的 shifts of tone. His language is probably the most profusely inventive of all Elizabethan writers. ;III. Thomas More (1478-1535) ;1. Life and Career One of the great lawyers, Christian humanists, and classical scholars of his day. Cultivated friendships with Erasmus,伊拉斯谟 one of the greatest humanist thinkers of the time. ;More considered it the “duty of every good man” to contribute to the service of his country. More gained the office of Chancellor in 1529. ;When Henry VIII divorced his wife, and married Anne Boleyn [bulin], More, a profoundly religious Catholic, refused to attend the coronation [k?r?ne??(?)n]加冕礼of Boleyn and was marked for vengeance. A number of false charges were soon brought against More, and he was convicted and executed in 1535, a martyr for his religion. ;More’s Family;;;2. Literary Works The History of King Richard III. 《国王理查三世本纪》 It is