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中国考博辅导第一品牌 人民大学考博英语考试专项提高训练-阅读理解模拟真题精读 Exerc se three： Wakef eld Master’s Real sm Moreover, nsofar as any nterpretat on of ts author can be made from the f ve or s x plays attr buted to h m, the Wake f eld Master s un formly cons dered to be a man of sharp contemporary observat on. He was, formally, perhaps cler cally educated, as h s Lat n and mus c, h s B bl cal and patr st c lore nd cate. He s, st ll, celebrated ma nly for h s qu ck sympathy for the oppressed and forgotten man, h s sharp eye for character, a ready ear for colloqu al vernacular turns of speech and a humor alternately rude and bo sterous, coarse and happy. Hence desp te h s consc ous art stry as man fest n h s feel ng for ntr cate metr cal and stanza forms, he s looked upon as a k nd of med eval Ste nbeck, nd gnantly angry at, uncomprom s ngly and even brutally real st c n present ng the pl ght of the agr cultural poor. Thus tak ng the play and the author together, t s mow fa rly convent onal to regard the former as a k nd of ult mate po nt n the secular zat on of the med eval drama. Hence much emphas s on t as dep ct ng real st cally humble manners and pastoral l fe n the bleak h lls of the West R d ng of Yorksh re on a typ cally cold b ght of December 24th. After what are often regarded as almost “documentar es” g ven n the three success ve monologues of the three shepherds, cr t cs go on to aff rm that the real sm s then ntens f ed nto a burlesque mock-treatment of the Nat v ty. F nally as a sort of ep logue or after-thought n deference to the B bl cal or g ns of the mater als, the play sl des back nto an atav st c mood of early nnocent reverence. Actually, as we shall see, the f nal scene s not only the culm nat ng scene but perhaps the