RENAISSANCE(文艺复兴)

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1、OldEnglishLiterature-MiddleEnglishLiterature-theRenaissance(文艺复兴)-The17thCentury-The18thCentury-EnglishRomanticism-TheVictorianAge-The20thCenturyOldEnglishliteratureItsrootsliedeepinthetalesoftheDenmarkandotherScandinaviancountries.Untillateinthe9t

2、hcentury,theircloserelationswerebrokenbecauseagreatEnglandmonarchKingAlfredbrokethepoweroftheDanes.Thefirstworkis”Beowulf”ItisastoryaboutaheroBeowulfwhodidalotofgoodthingstohispeoplearoundthe6thcentury.ItpicturedusaDenmarkbutnotEnglandscene.Beowulf,writte

3、ninOldEnglishsometimebeforethetenthcenturyA.D.,describestheadventuresofagreatScandinavianwarriorofthesixthcentury.Arichfabricoffactandfancy,Beowulfistheoldestsurvivingepic（史诗）inBritishliteratureThefirstpageoftheBeowulfmanuscript.TheEnglishhistory:itsfound

4、ationstoneistheAnglo-SaxonChronicle(编年史).ItbeganbyAlfredfromtheRomaninvasionofBritainin54B.C.tothemiddleofthe12thcentury.UndertheKing’sdirection,plentyofbooksfromEuropeinLatinonreligion,philosophy,andhistoryweretranslatedtotheoldEngland,stillawildandbarba

5、rouskingdomMiddleEnglishItisthetruebeginningofthemagnificentheritageofEnglishliterature.Generallydefinedas1100to1500.ItdevelopedslowlyjustlikeasmallstreamMiddleEnglishItisstrangeandneedsspecialstudyforfullunderstanding.However,italreadyhadmanyelementsofth

6、emodernEnglish.Today’sEnglishBythetimeofQueenElizabethⅠ’sreign(1558-1603),Englishwasbasicallyasitistoday.InthelatererawhichShakespearelivedin,Englishreacheditspeak.GeoffreyChaucer(1340?---1400)thegreatestnameintheMiddleEnglishliterature.Heisnamedinthattri

7、oofEnglishpoetrygiants:Chaucer,Shakespeare,andMilton.Hewasanexperiencedman.EvenonceservedintheFrenchwarsandwastakeninprisoner.ThenforsomereasonhewenttoItalia,whichwasasourceformanyofhislatertales.Masterpiece:TheCanterburyTales坎特伯雷故事集TheCanterburyTalesItis

8、agroupofstorieswhichweretoldbysomepilgrims(圣地朝拜者).Thereare24talesinall.Inthisseriesofstories,Chaucerbroughtfreshvision.It’sinlustyhumorandmanyothermoodsandstyles.Thekindsofpeoplethebookinvolvedinaresomanythatitgives