《英国文学》英语专业必背内容精讲.doc

[英美文学] 【英国文学】英国文学总结 Englishliterature Contents Introduction The Old English period Poetry Alliterative verse The major manuscripts Problems of dating Religious verse Elegiac and heroic verse Prose Early translations into English Late 10th- and 11th-century prose The Early Middle English period Poetry Influence of French poetry Didactic poetry Verse romance The lyric Prose The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods Later Middle English poetry The revival of alliterative poetry Courtly poetry Chaucer and Gower Poetry after Chaucer and Gower Courtly poetry Popular and secular verse Political verse Later Middle English prose Religious prose Secular prose Middle English drama The transition from medieval to Renaissance The Renaissance period: 1550–1660 Literature and the age Social conditions Intellectual and religious revolution The race for cultural development Elizabethan poetry and prose Development of the English language Sidney and Spenser Elizabethan lyric The sonnet sequence Other poetic styles Prose styles Elizabethan and early Stuart drama Theatre and society Theatres in London and the provinces Professional playwrights Christopher Marlowe Shakespeares works The early histories The early comedies The tragedies Shakespeares later works Playwrights after Shakesp