《英美概况unit6》课件.pptVIP

The old English period and middle English period (450-1500) The Renaissance (1500-1660) The Neo-classical period (1660-1785) The Romantic period (1785-1830) The Victorian period (1832-1901) The Modern period (1914-1945) The Postmodern period (1945-1999) The 21st century The old English period and middle English period (450-1500) The most significant Middle English author is the poet Geoffrey Chaucer（杰弗里·乔叟 ）(1340-1400).他首创的英雄双韵体为以后的英国诗人所广泛采用，被誉为“英国诗歌之父”。 1400年乔叟逝世，安葬在伦敦威斯敏特斯教堂的“诗人之角”(Poets Corner)，他也是第一位葬于此的诗人。 He was the first court poet to write in English. The Canterbury Tale《坎特伯雷故事集》(1387-1400) is his masterpiece and one of the monumental works in English literature. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 莎士比亚是英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家、诗人，欧洲文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的集大成者。本·琼森称他为“时代的灵魂”，马克思称他和古希腊的埃斯库罗斯为“人类最伟大的戏剧天才”。虽然莎士比亚只用英文写作，但他却是世界著名作家。他的大部分作品都已被译成多种文字，其剧作也在许多国家上演。儒略历1616年4月23日（公历1616年5月3日）病逝，出生日期与逝世日期恰好相同。莎士比亚和意大利著名数学家、物理学家、天文学家和哲学家、近代实验科学的先驱者伽利略同一年出生。被人们尊称为“莎翁”。 William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 莎士比亚的代表作有四大悲剧：《哈姆雷特》(英：Hamlet)、《奥赛罗》（英：Othello)、《李尔王》（英：King Lear）、《麦克白》（英：Mac Beth）。著名喜剧：《仲夏夜之梦》《威尼斯商人》《第十二夜》《皆大欢喜》（《As you like it》）。历史剧：《亨利四世》《亨利五世》《查理二世》。正剧、悲喜剧：《罗密欧与朱丽叶》。还写过154首十四行诗，二首长诗。 William?Shakespear?SonnetSonnet?18 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake thee darlig buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance,or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy enternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st, Joanne Kathleen Rowling 乔安妮·凯瑟林·罗琳 J.K. Rowling was born in 1965 in Bristol, England. By the summer of 2000, Rowling had sold over 30 million copies of Harry Potter books. They are printed in 35 languages. All this has earned over $400 million dollars. Ms. Rowling used her initials J.K. because she was a