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1、ABriefOutlineofBritishLiteratureTheEarliestHistoryofEnglandAroundthe5thcenturyB.C.TheearliestinhabitantsoftheBritishislandsareCeltics,atribecalledBretonsthatinvadedtheBritishIslesandsettledtherefornearly500years.TheAnglo-Saxons—abranchoftheGermanictribeexpelledtheCelticstotheremoteare
2、asofthenorthandthewest.TheirmothertonguewastheprototypeofmodernEnglish.EnglandmeansthedwellingsoftheAnglos.Anglo-SaxonperiodDuringtheAnglo-Saxonperiod(7-8centuries),BeowulfisseenastheearlyBritishepicpoem.Beowulf,anationalhero,killedGrendel,aseamonster,andsavedthewholenationfromdanger.
3、MedievalperiodGeoffreyChaucer(1343-1400)isregardedasthefatherofEnglishpoetry.HismasterpieceisTheCanterburyTales.Itisacollectionofshortstoriesdepictingrealisticallythepanoramaof14thcenturyEngland.Elizabethanperiod(Renaissanceperiod) Late15thc.–early17thc.Renaissanceisthegreatfloweringo
4、fart,architecture,politics,andliterature,usuallyseenastheendoftheMiddleAgesandthebeginningofthemodernworld.ItisalsocalledDarkAge,duringwhichChristianitydominatedallthewesternworld.Thekeyideologyofthisageishumanism,whoseemphasisisontheindividualismofman.RepresentativeWritersofEnglishRe
5、naissanceThomasMore(1478–1535):Utopia《乌托邦》,anovel.EdmundSpenser(1552-1599):FarieQueen,adrama.ChristopherMarlowe(1564–1593):HismasterpieceofdramaisTheTragicalHistoryoftheLifeandDeathofDr.Faustus.《浮士德博士的悲剧》FrancisBacon（1561-1626）:Thefounderofmodernscience.Fifty-eightEssays,NewInstrument
6、(NovumOrganum)AdvancementofLearningWilliamShakespeare(1564–1616),withhis154sonnetsand37plays,isthemostinfluentialwriterofEnglishliterature.ItissaidthatthethreemostimportantculturalresourcesincludeGreekliterature,TheBible,andShakespeareFourGreatTragedies:Hamlet,Othello,KingLear,Macbeth
7、FourGreatComedies:TheTamingoftheShrew《驯悍记》;AMidsummerNight'sDream;TwelfthNight;TheTempestGreatHistories:JuliusCaesar,HenryIVPart1andPart2,HenryV,RichardIII3.17thCenturyLiteratureWhenQueenElizabethdiedin1603,KingCharleswasbeheadedandtherepublicofGreatBritainwasfounded.AfterCharlesIIres
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