3.Pre-Shakespearean Drama: English Drama under Classical Influence;University
Wits:Lyly, Peele,Lodge, Nashe, Greene, Kyd and Marlowe Section Ⅳ Shakespeare
1.Shakespeares Life and Literary Career
2.Shakespeares Poems and Sonnets
3.Early Period of Shakespeares Plays: History Plays
(“Richard Ⅲ”, “Henry IV”, Parts 1 and 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 Shakespeares Plays.Tragedies(“Hamlet”, “Othello”,“King Lear”, “Macbeth”,“Antony and Cleopatra”, “Coriolanus”,
“Timon of Athens”), Tragi-Comedies (“Measure for Measure”,“Alls Well that Ends Well”, “Troilus and Cressida”)
5.Last Period of Shakespeares Dramatic Career:“Pericles”, “Cymbeline”,“The Winters Tale”, “The Tempest”, “Pericle”, “Henry VIII”
6.General Comments on Shakespeare:Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares 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 King James 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 Political Background from the Eve of the English Bourgeois Revolution to the Downfall of Stuart Absolutism (1625-1688)
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 andProse Writersof the Period
2.The Pamphlet Literature of the Levellers and the Digger.s: John Lilburne and Gerrard Winstanley Section Ⅲ John Milton
1.Miltons Life and Literary Career
2.Miltons Early Works
3.The Middle Period of Miltons Literary Career: His Prose and His Sonnets
4."Paradise Lost", "Paradise Regained" and "Samson Agonistes"
Section Ⅳ English Literature of the Restoration
1.John Bunyan
2.John Dryden
3.Th.e English Drama of the Restoration.
4.Minor English Poetry and Prose.of the Restoration: Samuel Butlers "Hudibras" and the Diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
内容摘要 This is an attempt to write a history of English literature admittedly with an innovative approach. The traditional as well as the more modern views in the West on literary movements, schools, traditions and influences in the field of English literature and on individual English authors and their major and minor works are here given due respect and serious consideration, but with the reservation sometimes to differ and occasionally to introduce new and totally contrary judgments from the viewpoint of historical materialism i.e., the writers and their writings are to be given their proper places in each case in accordance with the roles, healthful or otherwise, that they play in the progress of history, social and literary. Of course,whether or how far have I succeeded in these pages in living up to the theory advanced above awaits judgment from my readers.
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