英国文学作品概括

I. Early and Medieval English Literature (5th century-15th century)

1. Bewolf 《贝尔武甫》

2. The Legend of King Arthur and his Round Table Knights;《亚瑟王和他的圆桌骑士》“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” 《高文爵士和绿衣骑士》

3. William Langland (1330-1400) Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》

4. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) 杰弗里•乔叟

The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)《坎特伯雷故事集》

The Romanunt of the Rose 《玫瑰罗曼史》

Troilus and Criseyde《特罗勒斯和克丽西德》

The House of Fame《声誉之堂》

II. English Literature of the Renaissance (16th century) —the Elizabethan Age (1558-1603)

1. Thomas More (1478-1535)

Utopia (1516) 《乌托邦》

2. Edmund Spenser (1552-99)

The Faerie Queen (1596) 《仙后》

The Shepherd’s Calendar (1597 《牧人日历》

3. Christopher Marlowe (1564-93)

Tamburlaine the Great (1587)《帖木儿》

Dr. Faustus (1589)《浮士德博士的悲剧》

The Jew of Malta (1590) 《马耳他的犹太人》

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 《多情牧童致爱人》

4. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

The First Period (1590-1594)

1590 Henry VI, Part II《亨利六世中篇》

Henry VI, Part III《亨利六世下篇》

1591 Henry VI, Part I 《亨利六世上篇》

1592 Richard III《理查三世》

The Comedy of Errors 《错误的喜剧》

1593 Titus Andronicus《泰特斯•安德洛尼克斯》

The Taming of the Shrew《训悍记》

1594 The Two Gentlemen of Verona《维洛那二绅士》

Love’s Labour’s Lost《爱的徒劳》

Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》

Two narrative poems:

Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯与阿多尼斯》

The Rape of Lucrece《露克丽丝受辱记》

The Second Period (1595-1600)

The second period of Shakespeare’s work is his mature period, mainly a period of “great comedies” and mature historical plays.

1595 Richard II 《理查二世》

A Midsummer Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》

1596 King John《约翰王》

The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》

1597 Henry IV, Part I《亨利四世上篇》

Henry IV, Part II《亨利四世下篇》

1598 Much Ado about Nothing《无事生非》

Henry V《亨利五世》

The Merry Wives of Windsor《温莎的风流娘儿们》

1599 Julius Caesar《裘力斯•凯撒》

As You Like It《皆大欢喜》

1600 Twelfth Night《第十二夜》

The Third Period (1601-1607)

The third period of Shakespeare’s dramatic career is mainly the period of “great tragedies” and “dark comedies”.

1601 Hamlet《哈姆莱特》

1602 Troilus and Cressida《特洛伊罗斯与克瑞西达》

1603 All’s Well That Ends Well《终成眷属》

1604 Measure for Measure《一报还一报》

Othello《奥瑟罗》

1605 King Lear《李尔王》

Macbeth《麦克白》

1606 Antony and Cleopatra《安东尼与克莉奥佩特拉》

1607 Coriolanus 《科利奥兰纳斯》

Timon of Athens 《雅典的泰门》

The Fourth Period (1608-1602)

The fourth period of Shakespeare’s work is the period of romantic drama.

1608 Pericles《泰尔亲王配瑞克里斯》

1609 Cymbeline《辛白林》

1610 The Winter’s Tale《冬天的故事》

1601 The Tempest《暴风雨》

1612 Henry VIII《亨利八世》

5. Ben Jonson (1573-1637)

Every Man in His Humor (1598)

Volpone, or the Fox (1606)

The Alchemist (1610) 《炼金术士》

Bartholomew Fair (1614)

6. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Advancement of Learning, 1605 《学术的进展》

Novum Organum, 1620《新工具》

New Atlantics, 1627《新大西岛》

Essays, 1597,1612,1625 《论说文集》

III. English Literature during the English Bourgeois Revolution and the Restoration (17th century)

1. John Milton (1608-1674)

“Morning of Christ’s Nativity”(1629)“圣诞晨歌”