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Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period (07)The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summers day? is the beginning line of Shakespeares Sonnet 18. (10)The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. (09)In Renaissance, the European humanists thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following including getting rid of those feudalist ideas, introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie and recovering the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, except getting control of the parliament and government. (10,09)As the best of Shakespeares final romances, The Tempest is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years. (11)In King Lear, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism. (12)Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in The Merchant of Venice. (10)To be, or not to be-that is the question;/Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?These lines are taken from Hamlet. (12)John Milton wrote Paradise Lost to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men. (11,09)John Miltons greatest poetical work Paradise Lost is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. (11,10)Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English. (12)The work Paradise Regain shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor. (07)Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from the Old Testament.旧约 (11,08)Shall I compare thee to a summers day Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake and darling buds of May, And summers lease hat