英国文学教学课件.ppt

* * * * * * 模板来自于 * John Tillotson (October 1630 – 22 November 1694) was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury from 1691 to 1694. John Wilkins (14 February 1614– 19 November 1672) was an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal Society. He was Bishop of Chester from 1668 until his death. Wilkins is one of the few persons to have headed a college at both the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He was a polymath, although not one of the most important scientific innovators of the period. An Essay towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London, 1668) is the best-remembered of the numerous works of John Wilkins, in which he expounds a new universal language, meant primarily to facilitate international communication among scholars, but envisioned for use by diplomats, travelers, and merchants as well. Unlike many universal language schemes of the period, it was meant merely as an auxiliary to—not a replacement of—existing natural languages. Thomas Rymer (c. 1643 – 13 December 1713) held the office of English historiographer royal. Rymers most lasting contribution was his compilation and publication of sixteen volumes of texts of agreements made between the crown of England and foreign powers during all earlier centuries. The Tragedies of the Last Age Considerd: Thomas Rymer’s first appearance in print was as translator of René Rapins Reflections on Aristotles Treatise of Poesie (1674), to which he added a preface in defence of the classical rules for unity in drama. Following the principles there set forth, he composed a tragedy in verse, licensed 13 September 1677, called Edgar, or the English Monarch, which was a failure. It was printed in 1678. Rymers views on the drama were again given to the world in the shape of a printed letter to Fleetwood Shepheard, the friend of Prior, under the title of The Tragedies of the Last Age Considerd (1678). Willia