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上古及中世纪英国文学Old and Medieval English literature 上古： 450 to 1066 中世纪;1066-14世纪中叶 Celts Old English poetry: the religious group and the secular one Beowulf: national epic poem Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the Old English alliterative verse. The Canterbury Tales The father of English poetry English Homer In the medieval period ：use narrative verse of prose to tell stories of knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. 文艺复兴时期 the Renaissance Period 14th and mid-17th centuries Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. Golden Age It started in Italy Henry VIII Defender of the Faith Bible in English ancient Roman and Greekculture class struggle Petrarch poetry and poetic drama Elizabethan drama Famous dramatists: Christopher Marlowe ,William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson 3威廉 莎士比亚William Shakespeare 1564-1616 Playwrights , dramatist, poets 1591-1611was in the prime of his dramatic career. 38plays 戏剧 154sonnets 十四行诗 2 long poems叙事诗 Stratford-on-Avon “University wits” “an upstart crow” Sonnet18 : meditation eternal beauty origin:Italy Hamlet “to be,or not to be-that is the question” the merchant of Venice against Christians /Jews. Two narrative poems venus and Adonis the rape of lucrece Tragedies: hamlet Othello king lear Macbeth remeo and Juliet Julius casear Six comedies: a midsummer night’s dream the merchant of Venice much ado about nothing sa you like it twelfth night the merry wives of Windsor all’s well that ends well measure for measuree Romantic tragicomedies: [eroc;es Cymbeline The Winter’s Tale the Tempest Romantic tragedy Romeo and Juliet tragedy but optimistic 乐观spirit. Writing feature: 1 a play in the play 2 borrow plots from other stories such sa Roman,Greekand ancient myth. 3 several threads running through the play 4 combination of tragic and comic elements. Writing style: 1 trimendous vocabulary(16,000words,invent words) 2literary devi