英国文学简史--Part-II-The-English-Renaissance1讲课稿.pptVIP

英国文学简史--Part-II-The-English-Renaissance1 Three stages of the English renaissance a. Beginning: The Pre-Elizabethan Period (1485-- 1558) Oxford reformers prose writer Thomas More b. Flourishing: the Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) Poetry: Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Lyly Sonnet from Shakespeare Prose: Francis Bacon Drama: Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare, Ben Johnson c. Declining: the period of James I (1603-1625) early 17thC Historical background Politically The Establishment of New Monarchy The War with Spain Economically The Enclosure Movement The Commercial Expansion Religiously The Reformation The English Bible Ideologically Renaissance The rising bourgeoisie; The purity of the early church; England becoming stronger and stronger The Establishment of New Monarchy (p.27) 1337—1453 the Hundred Years’ War with France the whirlwind旋流 of civil war the War of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of __________ and the House of ____ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years. Lancaster York death of Chaucer full of changes 百年战争结束威廉一世以来英王在法国的领地利益,奠定了英法两个民族大国形成的基础 the establishment of the Tudor dynasty—the centralized monarchy The Hundred Years War (1337-1453) The Hundred Years War was a vicious, costly, drawn out affair caused by ambitious English kings set on ruling France. The see-saw war went on for 100 years until the English were finally driven out of France. From the ruins of the war an entirely new France emerged. For England, the results of the war were equally decisive; it ceased to be a continental power and increasingly sought expansion as a naval power. The Hundred Year’s War saw the destruction of the feudal nobility (封建贵族) and the decline of the feudalism (封建制度). The Establishment of New Monarchy The House of Lancaster (兰开斯特家族) found most of its support in the north and west of the country, while support for the House of York （约克家族）came mainly from the south and east. The Wars of the Roses, with their heavy