专八人文知识英国文学主要作家、 专八人文知识英国文学主要作家、作品表

英国文学 Part 1. Old and medieval Beowulf 贝尔武甫(the national epic of the English people) Striking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements. William Langland 威廉·兰格伦 Geoffrey Chaucer 杰佛利·乔叟 1340-1400 Piers the Plowman 耕者皮尔斯 长诗：The House of Fame 声誉之堂; Troilus and Criseyde 特罗勒斯与克丽西德 小说：Canterbury Tales 坎特伯雷故事集----英国文学史上现实主义第一部杰作 (他是最早有人文主义思想的作家，现实主义文学的奠基人) His contribution to English poetry: introduced from France the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter (the heroic couplet); is the first great poet who wrote in the English language; making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.

Part 2. The English renaissance Thomas More 托马斯·莫尔 Philip Sidney 菲力普·锡德尼 Edmond Spenser 埃德蒙·斯宾塞 Francis Bacon 培根 1561-1626 Advancement of Learning 学术的进展; Novum Organu 新工具; New Atlantic 新大西岛; Essays 论文集(Of Studies 论学习; Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self) The founder of English materialist philosophy Christopher Marlowe 克里斯托夫·马洛 William Shakespeare 莎士比亚 1564-1616 Tamburlaine 铁木耳大帝; Dr. Faustus 浮士德的悲剧; The Jew of Malta 马耳他的犹太人; The Passionate Shepherd 多情的牧羊人致情人 The First Period (1590-1594) Comedies: The Comedy of Errors 1592; The Taming of the Shrew 1593; The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1594; Love’s Labour’s Lost 1594 Histories: Henry Ⅵ, Part Ⅱ 1590; Henry Ⅵ, Part Ⅲ 1590; Henry Ⅵ, Part Ⅰ 1591; Richard Ⅲ 1592 Tragedies: Titus Andronicus 1593; Romeo and Juliet 1594 The Second Period (1595-1600) Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1595; The Merchant of Venice 1596; Much Ado about Nothing 1598; The Merry Wives of Windsor 1598; As You Like It 1599; Twelfth Night 1600 Histories: Richard Ⅱ 1595; King John 1596; Henry Ⅳ, Part Ⅰ 1597; Henry Ⅳ, Part Ⅱ 1597; Henry Ⅴ 1598 Tragedies: Julius Caesar 1599 The Third Period (1601-1607) Comedies: Troilus and Cressida 1602; All’s Well That Ends Well 1603; Measure for Measure 1604 Tragedies: Hamlet 1601; Othello 1604; King Lear 1605; Macbeth 1605; Antony and Cleopatra 1606; Coriolanus 1607; Timon of Athens 1607 The Fourth Period (1608-1612) Histories: Henry Ⅷ 1612 Romances: Pericles 1608; Cymbeline 1609; The Winter’s Tale 1610; The Tempest 1611 Poems: Venus and Adonis 1593 The Rape of Lucrece Sonnets(154)1593-1599 Utopia 乌托帮 Astrophel and Stella; Apology for Poetry 诗辩 The Faerie Queene 仙后; The Shepheardes Calender 牧羊人日历