Chapters 3-4 英国文学简史ppt(English Literature）演示教学.pptVIP

English Literature Chapters 3—4 Key Points in Chapter 3 The Elizabethan Age: A Brief Introduction Queen Elizabeth I Three sub-periods Edmund Spenser Introduction The Shepheardes Calendar The Faerie Queen Spenserian Stanza Philip Sidney English Drama: A Sketchy Account Five phases of drama First English comedy and tragedy Christopher Marlowe Introduction Works The Elizabethan Age (1558-1625) Queen Elizabeth I She was shrewd and tactful to a fault. She encouraged learning and adventures and was a great patron of literature. England slowly but steadily crawled to the zenith of wealth and power during her reign. The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance transformed Chaucer’s medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one. The Elizabethan Age (1558-1625) Three sub-periods 1557-1579: beginning with the printing of Tottel’s Miscellany and concluding with the publication of Edmund Spencer’s The Shepheardes Calendar 1580-1599, the year of Spencer’s death: Spencer, Sidney, “University Wits”, Shakespeare, Bacon 1599-1625: Shakespeare Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) Introduction Educated at Cambridge and served under some men of prominence Buried near Chaucer in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey Major works: The Shepheardes Calendar, The Faerie Queen, Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, Epithalamium (祝婚诗), Amoretti (爱情小唱) The greatest non-dramatic poet of the period Edmund Spenser(1552-1599) Spenserian Stanza It is a nine-line stanza of 8 lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c. Spenserian stanza ha continued to be a popular stanzaic form for dreamy and meditative works. Philip Sidney(1554-1586) Educated at Oxford and was widely read. A good number of his poems appear in Arcadia. Astrophel and Stella contains his best poetic compositions of 108 sonnets and 11 songs. As a sonnet sequence, this was probably the first of its kind ever to appear in English literary history. Apologie for poetrie defends the noble nature of