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1、EnglishLiteratureChapters3—4KeyPointsinChapter3TheElizabethanAge:ABriefIntroductionQueenElizabethIThreesub-periodsEdmundSpenserIntroductionTheShepheardesCalendarTheFaerieQueenSpenserianStanzaPhilipSidneyEnglishDrama:ASketchyAccountFivephasesofdramaFirstEnglishcom
2、edyandtragedyChristopherMarloweIntroductionWorksTheElizabethanAge (1558-1625)QueenElizabethIShewasshrewdandtactfultoafault.Sheencouragedlearningandadventuresandwasagreatpatronofliterature.Englandslowlybutsteadilycrawledtothezenithofwealthandpowerduringherreign.Th
3、eElizabethanagewasoneinwhichRenaissancetransformedChaucer’smedievalEnglandintoShakespeare’smodernone.TheElizabethanAge (1558-1625)Threesub-periods1557-1579:beginningwiththeprintingofTottel’sMiscellanyandconcludingwiththepublicationofEdmundSpencer’sTheShepheardesC
4、alendar1580-1599,theyearofSpencer’sdeath:Spencer,Sidney,“UniversityWits”,Shakespeare,Bacon1599-1625:ShakespeareEdmundSpenser (1552-1599)IntroductionEducatedatCambridgeandservedundersomemenofprominenceBuriednearChaucerinthePoet’sCornerofWestminsterAbbeyMajorworks:
5、TheShepheardesCalendar,TheFaerieQueen,ColinCloutsComeHomeAgaine,Epithalamium(祝婚诗),Amoretti(爱情小唱)Thegreatestnon-dramaticpoetoftheperiodEdmundSpenser (1552-1599)TheShepheardesCalendarItconsistsof12pastoraleclogues(牧歌，田园诗)Theclassicaleclogueisaformofpastoralpoetrywh
6、ichgenerallydepicts,oftenintheformofdialoguesbetweenshepherdsorofsoliloquies,theeverydaylifeofcountrypeople,theirfeelingsandattitudes,andtheirsimplelifeofharmonywithnature.Itoftenservesasameansofmakingcriticalcommentsuponcontemporarylife.EdmundSpenser (1552-1599)
7、TheFaerieQueenItisagrandepicpoemFusingadroitlythestrandsoflegend,fable,andpraiseofElizabethI’sEnglandinitself,itsambtiousplanwastoinclude12booksof12cantoseach,featuringoneknightinonecantoastheembodimentofoneofthe12Aristotelianvirtuesandtheknight’senemyasthatofone
8、ofthe12vices.Thepoemwasintendedtobeapaeanofthe“glorious”reignofQueenElizabethinthepersonoftheFaerieQueenGloriana.EdmundSpenser (1552-1599)SpenserianStanzaItisa
