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Chapter 1 Old English Literature Beowulf 评论 Chapter 2 Middle English Literature Ballad Ballads are anonymous narrative poems designed for singing or oral reflection and composed in usually four-line stanza. The second and fourth lines having three feet each and rhymes falling on the second and fourth lines. The themes of ballads are various in kind, from war and bloodshed and superstation to domestic life, particularly with the relations between different members of a family or between lovers. Drama Miracle plays, morality Piers Plowman 农夫皮尔斯 Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里·乔叟Geoffrey Chaucer was the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages. The Canterbury Tales Each tale told is, however, a vivid exploration of the personality of the speaker The General Prologue also provides an often amusing reflection of pilgrim’s characters. In terms of the separate tale, each belongs to an established mode. But in such a vigorous manner, and so often focus on human weakness, that we are left with an overwhelming impression of the gap between polite literary forms and the rude untidiness of everyday life. Chaucer seems to present the weakness with a comic and tolerant tone. In spite of the various failings, what emerges in the poem overall is a rather reassuring and essentially positive picture of the late Middle Ages. Chapter 3 Literature of Renaissance and Reformation (1510-1620)Poetry Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene The Faerie Queene is Elizabeth, Gloriana. Prose Thomas More’s Utopia. Francis Bacon’s Of Studies Drama Christopher Marlowe 三部巨星的陨落 Tamburlaine the Great, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta William Shakespeare 四大悲剧 Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 四大喜剧 The Merchant of Venice (威尼斯商人), Twelfth Night （第十二夜）, A Midsummer Night’s Dream （仲夏夜之梦）, As You Like it（皆大欢喜）. Sonnet 选段 Chapter 4 Literature of Revolution and Restoration (1620-90) Puritanism 清教主义： was the religious doctrine of the revolutionary bourgeois during the English Revolution. It reached thrift, sobriety, hard