British literatureFrom the sixteenth

century to the nineteenth century

In the sixteenth

• Thomas More

his masterpiece

<utopia> 乌托邦 the name of More’s commonwealth

In the seventeenth

john Bunyan

<pilgrim’s progress>( 朝圣者的进步 )

• Bunyan gave us the great allegory which until recently was the most widely read book after the bible

The world’s literature three great allegories

• Spenser’s <Faery Queen> （仙后 )

• Dante’s <Divina Commedia> ( 神曲）

• Bunyan’s < pilgrim’s progress>( 朝圣者的进步 )

In the eighteenth

• It was not until the eighteenth century the

modern novel began to appear

Daniel Defoe

《 Robinson Crusoe 》Swift <Gulliver’s travels>

In the nineteenth

• The nineteenth century was the golden age of novel. There were a lot of novelists,the greatest of whom was Charles Dickens .<David Copperfield>( 大卫科波菲尔 ) is perhaps his best novel

the women novelists

• Nineteenth-century England also produced many great women novelists. The earliest of whom was perhaps Jane Austen .her most widely-read book is < pride and prejudice>( 傲慢与偏见 )

• The Bronte sisters ,Emily and Charlotte

• They are noted for their novels <Wuthering Heights>( 呼啸山庄 )and <Jane Eyre >( 简 · 爱 )

English poetry

The father of English poetry

Chaucer’s main contribution to English poetry is the introduction of thyming stanzas of various types from France, particularly the rhyming couplet of 5 accents in iambic to English poetry

《坎特伯雷故事集》

（ The Canterbury Tales ）

John Milton

The greatest English revolutionary poet of the 17th centry was John Milton (1608-1674).Whom we remember chiefly for his long epic in

twelve books Paradise Lost,which mainly tells the story of Adam and Eve in the Gardan of Eden.

《失乐园》（ Paradise Lost)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English playwright and poet, recognized in much of the world as the greatest of all dramatists Hundreds of editions of his plays have been published, including translations in all major languages.

四大悲剧

哈姆雷特 奥赛罗 李尔王 麦克白

《哈姆雷

特》

《奥赛

罗》

《李尔

王》

《麦克

白》

四大戏剧

莎士比亚的剧本• A Lover's Complaint  《情女怨》 • A Midsummer Night's Dream  《仲夏夜之梦》 • Cymbeline  《辛伯林》 • King John  《约翰王》 • King Richard II  《理查二世》 • King Richard III  《理查三世》• Pericles, Prince of Tyre  《泰尔亲王配力克里斯》• The Life of Timon of Athens  《雅典人泰门》 • The Tempest  《暴风雨》 • Love's Labour's Lost  《爱的徒劳》 • Measure for Measure  《自作自受》• The Comedy of Errors  《错见错觉》 • King Henry the Fifth  《亨利五世》

• Twelfth Night  《第十二夜》 • The Winter's Tale  《冬天的故事》 • The Two Gentlemen of Verona  《维洛那二绅士》 • Titus Andronicus  《泰特斯•安德洛尼克斯》 • Romeo and Juliet  《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 • Julius Caesar  《裘力斯•凯撒》 • Coriolanus  《科利奥兰纳斯》 • The Tempest  《暴风雨》 • The Taming of the Shrew  《驯悍记》 • The Rape of Lucrece  《鲁克丽丝受辱记》 • The Merry Wives of Windsor  《温莎的风流娘儿们》• The Merchant of Venice  《威尼斯商人》• The History of Troilus and Cressida  《特洛勒罗斯与克瑞西达》 • King Henry the Eighth  《亨利八世》

• There is no simple explanation for Shakespeare’s unrivaled popularity, but he remains our greatest entertainer and perhaps our most profound thinker. He had a remarkable knowledge of human behavior, which he was able to communicate through his portrayal of a wide variety of characters. He was able to enter fully into the point of view of each of his characters and to create vivid dramatic situations in which to explore human motivations and behavior. His mastery of poetic language and of the techniques of drama enabled him to combine these multiple viewpoints, human motives, and actions to produce a uniquely compelling theatrical experience.

Shakespeare was born in Stratford, a small town to the northwest of London. His father was a burgher, a glove maker and later became an officer of the town. Shakespeare may have attended the grammar school of the town where he may have learned little Latin. From various records it is clear that his father John Shakespeare, having earned much money in business for some time, and Shakespeare might have helped him in his butcher’s shop.

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