文档介绍：■英国部分
古英语Old English 450-1066 <Beowulf>
中世纪英语(文学) Medieval English 1066 - middle 14th century
乔叟Geoffrey Chaucer - the father of English poetry <The Canterbury Tales> first time to use 'heroic couplet' 英雄体双行诗
文艺复兴(含义)The Renaissance - rebirth or revival
人文主义Humanism - the essence of the Renaissance, the dignity of human being & the importance of the present life
斯宾塞Edmund Spenser - the poets' poet <The Faerie Queene> 诗人中的诗人《仙后》
马洛Christopher Marlowe - University Wits, the pioneer of English drama Blank verse无韵诗体, hyperbole夸张
浮士德博士的悲剧<Dr. Faustus>-- the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness 对知识、权利、幸福的追求
<The Passionate Shepherd to His Love> pastoral(牧人的,田园的) life
莎士比亚William Shakespeare - above all writers in the past and in the present time
四大悲剧Four tragedies - Hamlet, Othello, King Lear & Macbeth
十四行诗第18首< 18> eternal or immortal beauty
《威尼斯商人》<The Merchant of Venice> to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, to expose the insatiable greed and brutality
《哈姆雷特》<Hamlet> hesitate between fact and fiction, language and action, too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger (复仇者) To be, or not to be - to live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action
独白 Soliloquy or monologue - fully reveal the inner conflict of the characters
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