英国文学史习题第二、三部分.doc

Part II The Renaissance i． Fill in the blanks. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of _____________relations and the establishing of the foundations of _______________. ____________ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of ______________________. The old English aristocracy having been exterminated in the course of the War of ________, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of __________. _____________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. In Elizabethan time, the three greatest sonnet writers are William Shakespeare, __________________ and _________________. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and ___________ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. During the twenty-two years of his literary work, Shakespeare produced ______plays, _____narrative poems and ______ sonnets. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______________’s best plays. And it is him who made __________ the principal vehicle of expression in drama. _____________ is often referred to as the poets’ poet. Pope described Francis Bacon as the ___________, ___________, _____________ of mankind. Bacon’s works may be divided into three classes, the __________, the __________, the _________ works. II. Find out the match from column B for each item in column A. (I) Find out the author and his work. A B 1. ( ) Thomas More a. Gorge Green 2. ( ) Edmund Spenser b. Eupheus 3. ( ) John Lyly c. The Fairy Queen 4. ( ) Marlowe d. Utopia 5. ( ) Robert Greene e. The Jew of Malta (II). The relationship with Hamlet. A B 1. ( ) Ghost