目录
目 录 Chapter I ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD 1. The Historical Background 2. “Beowulf” the National Epic of the Anglo-Saxons 3. Minor Anglo-Saxon Poetry：Caedmon and Cynewulf 4. Anglo-Saxon Prose:：Bede, Alfred; “The Anglo- Saxon Chronicle”, Aelfric Chapter II ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES Section I English Literature :from the Mid. II, th Century to the Mid-14th 1 The Background:：Political and Social 2. Folk Literature and Religious Literature:：from the Mid-llth to the Mid-14th Century 3. Early Alliterative and Metrical Romances in the：12th, 13th and Early 14th Centuries Section II English Literatuire of the Second Halfof the 14th Century 1 The Background：Political and Social 2. John Wycliffe, John Gower, William Langland 3 Geoffrey Chaucer Section III English Literature of the Fifteenth Century 1 The Background：Political and Social 2. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads：“Robin Hood Ballads” 3. Early English Drama：Folk Drama, The Mystery Plays, The Miracle Plays The Mo ality Plays 4. The English Chaucerians, Early-Scottish Poetry and the Scottish Chaucerians 5. English Prose of the 15th Century: Sir Thomas Malory and His Le Morte d''''Arthur Chapter III ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE RENAISSANCE Section I The Historical Background： Economic, Political and Cultural 1 The Renaissance in Europe 2. Stages and Trends of English Literature of the Renaissance Section II English Literature of the Early 16th Century 1 The Oxford Reformers;Thomas More 2. Court Poetry: Skelton; Wyatt and Surrey 3. Morality Plays and Interludes of the, 16th Century：David Lyndsay; John Heywood Section III English Literature of the Second Half of the 16th Century. 1. Court Poetry：Philip Sidney; Edmund Spenser 2. Prose Fiction: Lyly, Lodge, Greene, Sidney, Nashe, Deloney 3. Pre, Shakespearean '''' Drama:'''' English ''''Drama under Classical Influence, University Wits：Lyly, Peele, Lodge, Nashe, Greene, Kyd and Marlowe Section IV Shakespeare 1 Shakespeare''''s Life and Literary Career 2 Shakespeare''''s Poems and Sonnets 3. Early Period of Shakespeare''''s Plays： History'''' Plays “Richard III”, “Henry''''IV”, Parts 1 arid 2, “Henry V” , Early Tragedies “Romeo and Juliet”, “Julius Caesar” , Comedies “The Merchant of Venice”, “Much Ado about Nothing”, “As You Like It”, “Twelfth Night” 4. Mature Period of Shakespeare''''s Plays. Tragedies “Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear”, “Macbeth”, “Antony and Cleopatra”, “Coriolanus”, “Timon of'''' Athens” , Tragi-Comedies “Measure for Measure”, “All''''s Well that Ends Well”, “Troilus and Cressida” 5. Last Period of Shakespeare''''s Dramatic Career：“Pericles”, “Cymbeline”, “The Winter''''s Tale”, “The Tempest”, “Pericle”, “Henry VIII” 6. General Comments on Shakespeare：Shakespeare''''s Progressive Significance and Limitations, His Indebtedness to the English Dramatic Tradition, His CharacterCreations, His Plot Construction, His Mastery of Language, His Literary Influence Section V English Literature of the First Quarter of the 17th Century 1. Drama of Shakespeare''''s Contemporaries: Ben Jonson, Chapman, Dekker, Thomas Heywood, Beaumont and Fletcher 2. The Decline of Drama in Early 17th-Century England up to the Closing of the Theatres in London in 1642：Marston, Tourneur, Webster, Ford, Middleton, Massinger, Shirley 3 Francis Bacon 4. The KingJames Bible and Other Prose in Early 17th Century 5. English Non-Dramatic Poetry in the First Thirty Years of the 17th Century: John Donne, Ben Jonson, the Spenserians Chapter IV ENGLISH LITERATURE DURING THE ENGLISH BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION AND THE RESTORATION Section I The Historical Background: Political and Ideological 1. The P01itical Background from the Eve of the English Bourgeois Revolution to the Downfall of Stuart Absolutism 16.25 1''''688 2. The Ideological Background of English Literature in the 17th Century Section II Minor Currents of English Literature from 1625 to 1660 1. Minor English Poets and Prose Writers of the Period 2. The. Pamphlet Literature of: the Levellers and the Diggers: John Lilburne and Gerrard Winstanley Section III John Milton 1'''' Milton''''s Life and Literary Career 2. Milton''''s Early Works 3. The Middle Period of Milton''''s Literary Career: His Prose and His Sonnets 4. “Paradise Lost”, “Paradise Regained” and “Samson Agonistes” SectionIV English Literature of the Restoration 1 John Bunyan 2. John Dryden 3 The English Drama of the Restoration 4. Minor English Poetry and Prose of the Restoration：Samuel Butler''''s “Hudibras” and the Diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
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