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英国文学选读
OldandMiddleEnglishPeriods450-1485
Anglo–SaxonEpicPoemBeowulf（贝奥武夫）被认为是英国的民族史诗。
Unit1（MiddleEnglishperiod）
GeoffreyChaucer杰弗里乔叟(1343-1400)—“FatherofmodernEnglishpoetry”
Majorworks:TheBookoftheDuchess《公爵夫人之书》
TheParliamentofFowls《百鸟议会)》
TheHouseofFame《声誉之堂》
TroilusandCriseyde《特罗斯特与克丽西德》
代表作：TheCanterburyTales《卡特伯雷故事》
Acollectionofstoriesinaframestory,writtenbetween1387and1400.Itisthestoryofagroupofthirtypeoplewhotravelaspilgrims朝圣者toCanterbury.Thepilgrims,whocomefromalllayersofsociety,tellstoriestoeachothertokilltimewhiletheytraveltoCanterbury.IfwetrusttheGeneralPrologue,ChaucerintendedthateachpilgrimshouldtelltwotalesonthewaytoCanterburyandtwotalesonthewayback.Heneverfinishedhisenormousprojectandeventhecompletedtaleswerenotfinallyrevised

Unit2(EnglishRenaissance)1485-1616
威廉莎士比亚(WilliamShakespeare)——dramatist,poet
Fourtragedies:
Hamlet《哈姆雷特》(hesitation)
Othello《奥赛罗》(jealous)
KingLear《李尔王》
Macbeth《麦克白》（ambition）
Fourcomedies:
AMidSummerNightDream《仲夏夜之梦》
Asyoulikeit《皆大欢喜》
TwelfthNight《第十二夜》)
TheMerchantofVenice《威尼斯商人》
Others:
RomeoandJuliet《罗密欧与朱丽叶》
Sonnet18《十四行诗之18》押韵方式：ABAB,CDCD,EFEF,GG
TheUniversitywits:大学才子
anotablegroupofpioneerEnglishdramatistswhowroteduringthelast15yearsofthe16thcentury(theElizabethanera)andwhotransformedpopulardramawiththeirplaysofqualityanddiversity
7talenteddramatists:
RobertGreeneJohnLylyThomasNashe
ThomasLodgeThomasKydGeorgePeele
FrancisBacon弗兰西斯培根（1561-1626）
1、Agreatthinker:(NewInstrument《新工具》)thenecessityofabandoningapriorispeculationinfavorofobservationandinduction.
2、ThefirstimportantEnglishessayistEssays《论说文集》
3、Thefounderofexperimentalphilosophy,thefatherofmodernpositivisticphilosophy
“现代科学的奠基人，英国唯物主义及现代实验科学之父”
Works:OfMarriageandSingleLife《论婚姻和单身》
OfStudies《论读书》
NewAtlantis《新大西岛》

Unit4TheSeventeenthCentury1616-1688
=1\*CHINESENUM3一、JohnMilton（1608—1674）约翰弥尔顿
Epicpoems:
ParadiseLost（1667）《失乐园》
ParadiseRegained(1671)《复乐园》
SamsonAgonistes(1671)《力士参孙》（长诗）
Works:
Lycidas(1637)《利西达斯》
Areopagitica(1644)《论出版自由》
=2\*CHINES