英美文学简史 Chapters 3-4
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and was a great patron of literature. ➢ England slowly but steadily crawled to
the zenith of wealth and power during her reign. ➢ The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance transformed Chaucer’s medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one.
English Literature Chapters 3—4
Key Points in Chapter 3
The Elizabethan Age: A Brief Introduction
• Queen Elizabeth I • Three sub-periods
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599)
Introduction ➢ Educated at Cambridge and served under
some men of prominence ➢ Buried near Chaucer in the Poet’s Corner of
Westminster Abbey ➢ Major works: The Shepheardes Calendar,
The Faerie Queen, Colin Clouts Come
Home Againe, Epithalamium (祝婚诗), Amoretti (爱情小唱)
➢ The greatest non-dramatic poet of the period
Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599)
Christopher Marlowe
• Introduction • Works
The Elizabethan Age
(1558-1625)
Queen Elizabeth I ➢ She was shrewd and tactful to a fault. ➢ She encouraged learning and adventures
The Shepheardes Calendar ➢ It consists of 12 pastoral eclogues (牧歌，田园诗)
➢ The classical eclogue is a form of pastoral poetry which generally depicts, often in the form of dialogues between shepherds or of soliloquies, the everyday life of country people, their feelings and attitudes, and their simple life of harmony with nature. It often serves as a means of making critical comments upon contemporary life.
Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599)
The Faerie Queen
➢ It is a grand epic poem
➢ Fusing adroitly the strands of legend, fable, and praise of Elizabeth I’s England in itself, its ambtious plan was to include 12 books of 12 cantos each, featuring one knight in one canto as the embodiment of one of the 12 Aristotelian virtues and the knight’s enemy as that of one of the 12 vices.
➢ The poem was intended to be a paean of the “glorious” reign of Queen Elizabeth in the person of the Faerie Queen Gloriana.
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
The Elizabethan Age (1558-1625)
Three sub-periods ➢ 1557-1579: beginning with the printing of Tottel’s
Miscellany and concluding with the publication of Edmund Spencer’s The Shepheardes Calendar ➢ 1580-1599, the year of Spencer’s death: Spencer, Sidney, “University Wits”, Shakespeare, Bacon ➢ 1599-1625: Shakespeare
Spenserian Stanza
➢ It is a nine-line stanza of 8 lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c.
➢ Spenserian stanza ha continued to be a popular stanzaic form for dreamy and meditative works.
• Introduction • The Shepheardes Calendar • The Faerie Queen • Spenserian Stanza
Philip Sidn源自文库y English Drama: A Sketchy Account
• Five phases of drama • First English comedy and tragedy
the zenith of wealth and power during her reign. ➢ The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance transformed Chaucer’s medieval England into Shakespeare’s modern one.
English Literature Chapters 3—4
Key Points in Chapter 3
The Elizabethan Age: A Brief Introduction
• Queen Elizabeth I • Three sub-periods
Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599)
Introduction ➢ Educated at Cambridge and served under
some men of prominence ➢ Buried near Chaucer in the Poet’s Corner of
Westminster Abbey ➢ Major works: The Shepheardes Calendar,
The Faerie Queen, Colin Clouts Come
Home Againe, Epithalamium (祝婚诗), Amoretti (爱情小唱)
➢ The greatest non-dramatic poet of the period
Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599)
Christopher Marlowe
• Introduction • Works
The Elizabethan Age
(1558-1625)
Queen Elizabeth I ➢ She was shrewd and tactful to a fault. ➢ She encouraged learning and adventures
The Shepheardes Calendar ➢ It consists of 12 pastoral eclogues (牧歌，田园诗)
➢ The classical eclogue is a form of pastoral poetry which generally depicts, often in the form of dialogues between shepherds or of soliloquies, the everyday life of country people, their feelings and attitudes, and their simple life of harmony with nature. It often serves as a means of making critical comments upon contemporary life.
Edmund Spenser
(1552-1599)
The Faerie Queen
➢ It is a grand epic poem
➢ Fusing adroitly the strands of legend, fable, and praise of Elizabeth I’s England in itself, its ambtious plan was to include 12 books of 12 cantos each, featuring one knight in one canto as the embodiment of one of the 12 Aristotelian virtues and the knight’s enemy as that of one of the 12 vices.
➢ The poem was intended to be a paean of the “glorious” reign of Queen Elizabeth in the person of the Faerie Queen Gloriana.
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
The Elizabethan Age (1558-1625)
Three sub-periods ➢ 1557-1579: beginning with the printing of Tottel’s
Miscellany and concluding with the publication of Edmund Spencer’s The Shepheardes Calendar ➢ 1580-1599, the year of Spencer’s death: Spencer, Sidney, “University Wits”, Shakespeare, Bacon ➢ 1599-1625: Shakespeare
Spenserian Stanza
➢ It is a nine-line stanza of 8 lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is abab bcbc c.
➢ Spenserian stanza ha continued to be a popular stanzaic form for dreamy and meditative works.
• Introduction • The Shepheardes Calendar • The Faerie Queen • Spenserian Stanza
Philip Sidn源自文库y English Drama: A Sketchy Account
• Five phases of drama • First English comedy and tragedy