英国文学史重难点概括.docVIP

Main Points for English Literature 一、Old English : 450-1066 Beowulf ?二、Medieval English : 1066 - middle 14th century Geoffrey Chaucer - the father of English poetry ?The Canterbury Tales first time to use heroic couplets 三、The Renaissance - rebirth or revival Humanism - the essence of the Renaissance, the dignity of human being the importance of the present life Edmund Spenser - the poets’poet The Shepherd’s Calendar ; The Faerie Queene 2.Christopher Marlowe - University Wits, the pioneer of English drama ?Blank verse, hyperbole夸张 ?The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus: the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: pastoral life 3.William Shakespeare - above all writers in the past and in the present time ?Four tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear Macbeth Sonnet 18: eternal or immortal beauty The Merchant of Venice :to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, to expose the insatiable greed and brutality. Hamlet: hesitate between fact and fiction, language and action, too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger. To be, or not to be - to live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action. Soliloquy or monologue - fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters 4.Francis Bacon - brevity, compactness powerfulness, his essays is an important landmark in the development of English rose.Inductive method is in place of deductive method. Of Studies : uses and benefits of study - studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Studies perfect nature, and are perfected by experience. Different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies - studies and experience are complementary to each other. The correct attitude to reading books - to weigh and consider. How studies exert influence over human character - reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing