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Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth The Sonnets  A Lovers Complaint  The Rape of Lucrece  Venus and Adonis  Funeral Elegy by W.S. * 英国文学史与选读 通过作品找意境，通过中西文学对比，让文学课升华至文化课，让我们的学生成为自己的主人。 Structure Early and Medieval English Literature Renaissance English Literature The English Literature of The 17th Century The English literature of The Enlightenment Age The Age of Romanticism The Victorian Age The 20th-Century British poetry Early and Medieval English Literature 5 Century------1485 “Early” here means English literature in primitive and slavery society. “Medieval period” is a quite special period in English history. In Chinese “Medieval” or “The Middle Age”. The Angle-Saxons: English literature began with the Anglo-Saxon settlement Anglo-Saxon Language (old English) Beowulf The Norman: Feudalism, landlord peasant began with the Norman, language greatly changed and enriched. Adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Beowulf is considered as a national epic of the English people. The epic poem Beowulf describes the most heroic man of the Anglo-Saxon times. It is a Denmark story which used alliteration, metaphors and understatements. The hero, Beowulf, is a seemingly invincible person with all the extraordinary traits required of a hero. He is able to use his super-human physical strength and courage to put his people before himself. He encounters hideous monsters and the most ferocious of beasts but he never fears the threat of death. His leadership skills are superb and he is even able to boast about all his achievements. Geoffrey Chaucer is the founder of English poetry, writer, also the outstanding English poet before William Shakespeare. Chaucer made a crucial contribution to English literature in writing in English at a time when much court poetry was still composed in Anglo-Norman or Latin. Although he spent one of two brief period