英国文学资料English literature of the renaissance.ppt

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1、EnglishLiteratureoftheRenaissanceTheHistoricalBackground:(Political,Economic,andCultural)TheRenaissancewasanideologicalandculturalrevolutionthatsweptoverallwesternEurope.RenaissancestartedinItalyin14thcenturyandcametoafloweringinthe15thandthe16thwhenitbegantospreadtooth

2、ercountries,notablyFrance,andthenGermany,England,SpainandtheLowCountries.ThiswasanepochofmanyradicalchangesinwesternEurope.Fedualnobilitylostmuchoftheirpower,withthecentralizationofpoliticalandmilitarypowerthatcamewiththeestablishmentofthegreatmonarchiesnecessaryforthed

3、evelopmentofcapitalism.(TheNewMonarchy)AnotherformofpoliticalstruggleisTheReformationofthechurch.CatholicismwasatfirstchallengedandthenwasreplacedbyProtestantism.TheEnglishBible(KingJamesBible)GeographicalDiscoveries(commercialexpansionandbroadeningthementalhorizons)Int

4、hecommercialexpansion,SpainwastherivalwithEnglandoverthesea.Atlastawarbrokeoutin1588.itendedwiththeroutoftheSpanishfleet“Armada”.Inthecitiesthemerchantsandthemasterartisansgrewinwealth,whileinthecountrysidethepeasantswerebadlyexploited.Theyeitherroseinupspringsorranaway

5、tothecitiestoaddtothefactoryworkers.(TheEnclosureMovement)Intheliteraryfield,theso-calledrevivaloflearning,includingthestudyofancientGreekandRomanliteratureandphilosophy.TherewasthegrowinginterestinmanandtheinfinitecapabilitiesofmanagainstimplicitfaithinGod.EnglishLiter

6、atureintheRenaissancePeriodEnglishliteratureintheRenaissanceperiodisusuallyregardedasthehighlightinthehistoryofEnglishliterature.InElizabethanperiod,Englishliteraturedevelopedwithagreatspeedandmadeamagnificentachievement.ThegreatestandmostdistinctiveachievementofElizabe

7、thanliteratureisthedrama.Nexttodramaisthelyricalpoetry.Elizabethanpoetryisremarkableforitsvariety,itsfreshness,itsyouthfulnessanditsromanticfeeling.EnglishPoetryintheRenaissancePeriodThomasWyattandSurreywerecourtpoets.Theyarebothtop-notcharistocratsandtheirpoetrywasmore

8、representativeofthethoughtsandfeelingsofthenobility.TheircontributionstoEnglishliteraturelieincertaininnovatio