英美文学选读要点总结精心整理
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考证素材 英美文学选读要点总结精心整理
英国』Chapter1 The Renaissance period〔14世纪至十七世纪中叶〕文艺复兴
1. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.人文主义是文艺复兴的核心。
2. the Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the measure of all
things.人文主义作为文艺复兴的起源是因为古希腊罗马文明的根底是以“人〞为中心，人是万物之灵。
3. Renaissance humanists found in then classics a justification to exalt human nature and came to see
that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection,
and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise but to question, explore, and enjoy.人文主义者们却从古代文化遗产中找到充分的论据，来赞美人性，并开始注意到人类是崇高的生命，人可以不断开展完善自己，而且世界是属于他们的，供他们疑心，探究以及享受。
4. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the
English humanists.托马斯.摩尔，克利斯朵夫.马洛和威廉.莎士比亚是英国人文主义的代表。
5. Wyatt introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.怀亚特将彼特拉克的十四行诗引进英国。
6. The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.英国文艺复兴初期只是一个学习模仿与同化的阶段。
7. The goals of humanistic poetry are: skillful handling of conventions, force of king1970uage, and,
above all, the development of a rhetorical plan in which meter, rhyme, scheme, imagery and argument
should all be combined to frame the emotional theme and throw it into high relief.人文主义诗歌的主要目标是对传统习俗的熟练运用，言语的力度与气概，而最重要的是开展了修辞模式，马上格律，韵脚〔式〕，组织结构，意象〔比喻，描述〕与议论都结合起来勾画出感情主题，并将其极为鲜亮生动的表现出来。
8. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William
Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.文艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家有克利斯朵夫.马洛，威廉.莎士比亚与本.约翰逊。
9. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the first important English essayist.费兰西斯.培根是英国历史上最重要的散文家。
(I)Edmund Spenser埃德蒙.斯宾塞
10. the theme of Redcrosse is not“Arms and the man,〞but something more romantic-“Fierce wars and
faithful loves.〞《仙后》的主题并非“男人与武器〞，而是更富浪漫色彩的“残酷战争与忠贞爱情〞。
11. It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that make him known as“the poets’poet.〞正是斯宾塞的理想主义，对美的热爱以及精美优雅的诗文韵律是他成为“诗人中的诗人〞。
(II)Christopher Marlowe克利斯朵夫.马洛
12. As the most gifted of the“University Wits,〞Marlowe composed six plays within his short lifetime.
Among them the most important are: Tamburlaine, Parts I II, Dr.Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II.马考证素材
考证素材 洛是当时“大学才子〞中最富才华的人，在他短暂的一生中，他完成了六部剧本的创作。其中最负盛名的是：《帖木尔》，《浮士德博士的悲剧》，《马耳他岛的犹太人》以及《爱德华二世》。
13. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal
medium of English drama.马洛的艺术成绩在于他完善了无韵体诗，并使之成为英国戏剧中最重要的文体形式。
14. Marlowe’s second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.马洛的第二项奉献是他制造了文艺复兴时期的英雄形象。
15. His brilliant achievement as a whole raised him to an eminence as the pioneer of English drama.他对戏剧开展的奉献是不可磨灭的，为此，它被后世尊为英国戏剧的先驱。
16. The passionate shepherd to his love激情的牧人致喜爱的姑娘
This short poem is considered to be one of the most beautiful lyrics in English literature.这首短诗是英国文学诗中最优美的抒情诗。
(III)William Shakespeare威廉.莎士比亚
17. The first period of his dramatic career, he wrote five history plays: Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, Richard
III, and Titus Andronicus; and four comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The
Taming of the Shrew, and Love’s Labour’s Lost.在他戏剧创作生涯的第一个阶段，他创作了五部历史剧：《亨利六世》，《理查三世》，《泰托斯.安东尼》以及四部喜剧：《错误的戏剧》，《维洛那二绅士》，《驯悍记》和《爱的徒劳》。
18. In the second period, he wrote five histories: Richard II, King John, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry
V; six comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You
Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; and two tragedies: Romeo and Juliet and Julius
Caesar.在第二阶段，他写了五部历史剧：《理查三世》，《约翰王》，《亨利四世》，《亨利五世》以及六部喜剧《仲夏夜之梦》，《威尼斯商人》，《无事生非》，《皆大欢喜》，《第十二夜》，《温莎的风流娘儿们》，还有两部悲剧：《罗密欧与朱丽叶》和《裘利斯.凯撒》。
19. Shakespeare’s third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies. The tragedies
of this period are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, and
Coriolanus. The two comedies are All’s Well That Ends and Measure for Measure.第三阶段诞生了莎翁最伟大的悲剧和他自称的黑色喜剧〔或悲喜剧〕，悲剧有：《哈姆雷特》，《奥赛罗》，《李尔王》《麦克白》《安东尼与克利奥佩特拉》《特罗伊勒斯与克利西达》及《克里奥拉那斯》。两部喜剧是《终成眷属》和《一报还一报》。
20. The last period of Shakespeare’s work includes his principle romantic tragicomedies: Pericles,
Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest; and his two plays: Henry VIII and The Two Noble
Kinsmen.最后一个时期的作品主要有浪漫悲喜剧：《伯里克利》《辛白林》《冬天的故事》与《暴风雨》。考证素材
考证素材 他最后两部剧是《亨利八世》与《鲁克里斯受辱记》。
21. Shakespeare’s sonnets are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings.这些十四行诗都是莎翁直抒胸臆的成果。
22. Shakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty
