【优质】英国文学简史小题
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7.The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad. A ballad is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth lines rhymed.
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29.Othello is a new man of the Renaissance. Othello is a tragedy of humanism. Othello is also a tragedy of the coloured people in a society of racial prejudice.
9.The Prologue provides a framework for the tales. Chaucer has been called“the founder of English realism.”
10.The first complete English Bible was translated by John Wycliffe.(1324-1384) Authorized Version, which was King James Bible.
15.Spenser: the Poet’s Poet The Shepherd’s Calendar, a pastoral poem in twelve books, one for each month of the year.
16.Spenser’s greatest work, The Faerie Queene is along poem planned in 12 books, of which he finished only 6. The work was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. It is an allegory.
17.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its drama.
18.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays- such were the forms of drama prevailing until the reign ofElizabeth.
11.an intellectual movement known as the renaissance, or, the rebirthof letters.
12.Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. Humanism reflected the new outlook of the rising bourgeois class.
tonwas famous for his personal beauty and the strictness of his life and was nicknamed“the lady of the Christ’s”.
34.Samson Agonistes endedMilton’s writing life.
31.Shakespeare is one of the founders of realism in world literature. Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method ofadaptation.Shakespeare was skilled in many poetic forms: the song, the dramatic blank verse. Shakespeare was agreat master of the English language. He commanded a vocabulary larger than any other English writer. Shakespeare has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance, and one of the greatest writers the world over.
26.The fourth period of Shakespeare’s work is the period of romantic drama.
27.Heroines like Rosalind are no longer the women under the yoke of feudalism.Theyare witty, bold, loving, optimistic and faithful. They carry their destinies with them and in speaking and thinking as well as in feeling are men’s equals or even superiors.
8.Chaucer: founder of English poetry( father of English poetry). He died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the“Poet’s Corner”.
24.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.
25.The second period of Shakespeare’s work is his mature period, mainly a periodof“great comedies”(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As you like it, Twelfth Night)
2.At the same timeBritainwas invaded by swarms of pirates, fromNorthern Europe, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
3.The Anglo-Saxon period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism. The Anglo-Saxons were heathen people. The Anglo-Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century.
英国文学简史小题
1.TheEnglish people are of a mixed blood. The early inhabitants in the island now we callEnglandwere Britons, a tribe of Celts. From the Britons the island got its name ofBritain, thelandofBritons.
30.Hamlet is a humanist, a man who is free from medieval prejudices and superstitions. He has an unbounded love for the world instead of the heaven.Starting from his humanist love of man, he turns to those around him with the same eagerness. He loves good and hates evil. His intellectual genius is outstanding. He is also a close observer of men and manners.Owing to theirtragi-comic nature, they are sometimes called his“romances
32.P95 An advocate of classic drama, Jonson insisted ona careful study of the old Greek and Roman masters. He took a firm stand for the“three unities.”Jonson was a forerunner of classicism in English literature, which was to reach its hightide in the 18thcentury.
22.Shakespeare’s life from three sources: church and legal records, folk traditions, and the commentsof his contemporaries.
23.Shakespeare also wrote two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
21.Marlowe was thegreatest of the pioneers of English drama. It isMarlowewho first made blank verse (rhymeless iambic pentameter) the principal instrument ofEnglishdrama.
5.TheRomance cycles: matters ofBritain( King Arthur), matters ofFrance, matters ofRome.
6.Piers the Plowman over 7000 lines. Features: a dream vision; an allegory; a realistic picture of medievalEngland.
13.More was one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
14.Englandbecame“a nest of singing birds”.Sidney’s collection of lovesonnets, Astrophel and Stella( the first sonnet sequence).Sidney: Apology for Poetry
19.The most gifted of the“university wits”was Christopher Marlowe.
20.Marlowe’s masterpiece is The Tragicalபைடு நூலகம்History of Doctor Faustus. It is based upon a German legend.
4.Beowulf over 3000 lines, the national epic of the English people. Features of Beowulf: use of alliteration, use of metaphors and of understatements, use of ironical humour.
35.Paradise Lost isMilton’smasterpiece. It is a long epic in 12 books,writtenin blank verse. The stories were taken from the Old Testament.
28.P72 P76
29.Othello is a new man of the Renaissance. Othello is a tragedy of humanism. Othello is also a tragedy of the coloured people in a society of racial prejudice.
9.The Prologue provides a framework for the tales. Chaucer has been called“the founder of English realism.”
10.The first complete English Bible was translated by John Wycliffe.(1324-1384) Authorized Version, which was King James Bible.
15.Spenser: the Poet’s Poet The Shepherd’s Calendar, a pastoral poem in twelve books, one for each month of the year.
16.Spenser’s greatest work, The Faerie Queene is along poem planned in 12 books, of which he finished only 6. The work was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. It is an allegory.
17.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its drama.
18.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays- such were the forms of drama prevailing until the reign ofElizabeth.
11.an intellectual movement known as the renaissance, or, the rebirthof letters.
12.Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. Humanism reflected the new outlook of the rising bourgeois class.
tonwas famous for his personal beauty and the strictness of his life and was nicknamed“the lady of the Christ’s”.
34.Samson Agonistes endedMilton’s writing life.
31.Shakespeare is one of the founders of realism in world literature. Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method ofadaptation.Shakespeare was skilled in many poetic forms: the song, the dramatic blank verse. Shakespeare was agreat master of the English language. He commanded a vocabulary larger than any other English writer. Shakespeare has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance, and one of the greatest writers the world over.
26.The fourth period of Shakespeare’s work is the period of romantic drama.
27.Heroines like Rosalind are no longer the women under the yoke of feudalism.Theyare witty, bold, loving, optimistic and faithful. They carry their destinies with them and in speaking and thinking as well as in feeling are men’s equals or even superiors.
8.Chaucer: founder of English poetry( father of English poetry). He died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, thus founding the“Poet’s Corner”.
24.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.
25.The second period of Shakespeare’s work is his mature period, mainly a periodof“great comedies”(A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As you like it, Twelfth Night)
2.At the same timeBritainwas invaded by swarms of pirates, fromNorthern Europe, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
3.The Anglo-Saxon period witnessed a transition from tribal society to feudalism. The Anglo-Saxons were heathen people. The Anglo-Saxons were Christianized in the seventh century.
英国文学简史小题
1.TheEnglish people are of a mixed blood. The early inhabitants in the island now we callEnglandwere Britons, a tribe of Celts. From the Britons the island got its name ofBritain, thelandofBritons.
30.Hamlet is a humanist, a man who is free from medieval prejudices and superstitions. He has an unbounded love for the world instead of the heaven.Starting from his humanist love of man, he turns to those around him with the same eagerness. He loves good and hates evil. His intellectual genius is outstanding. He is also a close observer of men and manners.Owing to theirtragi-comic nature, they are sometimes called his“romances
32.P95 An advocate of classic drama, Jonson insisted ona careful study of the old Greek and Roman masters. He took a firm stand for the“three unities.”Jonson was a forerunner of classicism in English literature, which was to reach its hightide in the 18thcentury.
22.Shakespeare’s life from three sources: church and legal records, folk traditions, and the commentsof his contemporaries.
23.Shakespeare also wrote two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
21.Marlowe was thegreatest of the pioneers of English drama. It isMarlowewho first made blank verse (rhymeless iambic pentameter) the principal instrument ofEnglishdrama.
5.TheRomance cycles: matters ofBritain( King Arthur), matters ofFrance, matters ofRome.
6.Piers the Plowman over 7000 lines. Features: a dream vision; an allegory; a realistic picture of medievalEngland.
13.More was one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
14.Englandbecame“a nest of singing birds”.Sidney’s collection of lovesonnets, Astrophel and Stella( the first sonnet sequence).Sidney: Apology for Poetry
19.The most gifted of the“university wits”was Christopher Marlowe.
20.Marlowe’s masterpiece is The Tragicalபைடு நூலகம்History of Doctor Faustus. It is based upon a German legend.
4.Beowulf over 3000 lines, the national epic of the English people. Features of Beowulf: use of alliteration, use of metaphors and of understatements, use of ironical humour.
35.Paradise Lost isMilton’smasterpiece. It is a long epic in 12 books,writtenin blank verse. The stories were taken from the Old Testament.