英国文学介绍PPT

Geoffrey Chaucer: He is a famous humanist of Britain
Major works:
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《公爵夫人之书》（The Book of the
Dutchess）、 《声誉之堂》（The House of Fame）、 《百鸟议会》（The Parliament of Fowls） 以及 他的代表作 《坎特伯雷故事集》 （The Canterbury Tales）等。
The age of Enlightenment or the age of Reason
• The Enlightenment movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The background of Байду номын сангаасld English
Literature
The earliest form of English literature developed after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England after the withdrawal of the Romans and is known as Old English or Anglo-Saxon.It was the language of England for a long time before the Norman Conquest in A.D.1066, and for some 100 years afterward.
Daniel Defoe
• Daniel Defoe was born in London in a butcher‟s family ,he never went to university, but he received a good education in one of the best Dissenting academies. Daniel Defoe found himself interested in business. He started as a small merchant and all his life his business underwent many ups and downs, and yet he was never beaten. His quick mind, abundant energy and never-failing enthusiasm always brought him back on his feet after a fall. He died in 1731.
Effects on literature

Shakespeare's plays poetry have had a pervasive influence on world literature. Most of the great literary figures of the world have been inspired stimulated by his achievement. On the whole, Shakespeare's contribution has been to the language spirit of later writing rather than to its form. References parallels to Shakespeare's phraseology have occurred in literature since the 16th century. Perhaps the greatest inspiration to subsequent authors has been Shakespeare's capacity to depict life in all its complexity to illuminate man's character destiny.
The Daniel Defoe‟s works
• “The Shortest Way with the Dissenters” in1702, “The True-born Englishman” in 1701.In 1704,he founded “The Review” , a political, literary periodical and carried it to 1713. He wrote four other novels: Captain Singleton (1720), Moll Flanders(1722), Colonel Jack(1722)and Roxana(1724), apart from the second and the third part of Robinson Crusoe .A Journal of the Plague Year.
The background of neoclassical period
• Political: The English society of the
neoclassical period was a turbulent one .Of the great political and social events there were the Restoration of King Charles|| in 1660, the Glorious Revolution in which King James|| was replaced by his daughter Mary and her Dutch husband William, in 1689.In a short, it was an age full of conflicts and divergence of values.
Old English Literature 主讲---李茜

The epic poem Beowulf is the most famous work in Old English. A hero of the Geats, Beowulf battles three antagonists: Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a Dragon. The only surviving manuscript is the Nowell Codex. The precise date of the manuscript is debated, but most estimates place it close to the year 1000.
The great enlighteners
• The great enlighteners in England were those great writers like John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele, the two pioneers of familiar essays, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Henry Fielding and Samuel Johnson.
William Shakespeare: Father of English drama



Works of Shakespeare The Great Tragedies include: Romeo and Juliet Hamlet Othello King Lear The Tragedy of Macbeth
English Literature
组员：李茜 杨琰菡 周文慧 周赛兰 陈孟兰
English Literature
It includes five periods: Old and Middle English Literature Neoclassical Period The Romantic Period Victoria Period Modern Period
Saying：




Do not , for one repulse , give up the purpose that you resolved to effect .(William Shakespeare , British dramatist) 不要只因一次失败，就放弃你原来 决心想达到的目的。——莎士比亚. The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long . (William Shakespeare , British dramatist ) 人生苦短，若虚度年华，则短暂的 人生就太长了。——莎士比亚.
• Economic: The eighteenth century saw
the fast development of England as a nation. Abroad, a vast expansion of British colonies in America, India, the West Indies. And at home in the country, Acts of Enclosure were putting more land into fewer privileged rich landowners and Industrial Revolution made England become the work-shop of the world ,her manufactured goods flooding foreign markets far and near.
主讲：杨琰菡
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The Neoclassical Period
• What we now call the neoclassical period is the one in English literature between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of Romanticism which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1978.
John Milton
Major works: Paradise Lost 失乐园 Paradise Regained 复乐园 Samson 力士参孙

One of the three major Western Poetry
（失乐园、荷马史诗、神曲）
The Neoclassical Period
John Milton




English poet, critic, a fighter for democracy(民主斗士) A Puritan（清教）literary representation His all life to the bourgeois democratic movement He is often considered the greatest English poet after Shakespeare.


Works of Shakespeare
Comedies:
A Midsummer Nights Dream The Merchant of Venice



Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night As you like it


John Milton 约翰· 弥尔顿（1608～ 1674）