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1、台州学院英国文学课程组,Lecture 3 The Renaissance and Shakespeare,Contents1. The Renaissance1.1 The term2.1 The Renaissance Literature2. William Shakespeare2.1 Life Experience2.2 Literary Creations2.3 Sonnet 182.4 Hamlet,台州学院英国文学课程组,The Renaissance,台州学院英国文学课程组,1.1 The RenaissanceThe period in Europe between the
2、 14th and 17th centuries . During this period , the classical arts and learning were discovered again and widely studied , so the term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of classical (Roman and Greek) arts and learning after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism , it also marked the beginni
3、ng of bourgeois revolution .,台州学院英国文学课程组,In the Renaissance period , scholars and educators called themselves humanists and began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and they held their chief interest in mans values and his environment and doings . So humanism became the keynote of the Eng
4、lish Renaissance.,台州学院英国文学课程组,1.2 Renaissance Literature in England (PP67-68),1.Poetry: Thomas Wyatt; Philip Sidney; Edmund Spencer2.Drama: Christopher Marlowe3. Novels: John Lyly4. Essays/Prose: Francis Bacon,University Wits 大学才子派,A group of young Elizabethan playwrights who had studied at the univ
5、ersities of Oxford or Cambridge,台州学院英国文学课程组,He introduced the sonnet into English literature.,Thomas Wyatt,台州学院英国文学课程组,Sir Philip Sidney,An outstanding lyrical and epic poet,台州学院英国文学课程组,Edmund Spenser (15521599),English poet whose long allegorical poem(寓言性浪漫史诗) The Faerie Queene 仙后 is one of the gre
6、atest in the English language. It was written in what came to be called the Spenserian stanza.,埃德蒙斯宾塞,台州学院英国文学课程组,Spenserian stanza,A nine-line stanza with the following rhyme scheme: ababbcbcc. The first eight lines are written in iambic pentameter. The last line is written in iambic hexameter . Th
7、e Spenserian Stanza was invented by Edmund Spenser for his epic poem The Fairie Queen.,台州学院英国文学课程组,台州学院英国文学课程组,The greatest pioneer of English drama who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.,Christopher Marlowe,台州学院英国文学课程组,Great popularity was won by his novel Eupheus (尤弗伊斯)
8、 which gave rise to an affected style of court speech called “euphuism”(尤弗伊斯体/绮丽体),John Lily,台州学院英国文学课程组,go,台州学院英国文学课程组,William Shakespeare(1564-1616),One of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known.,台州学院英国文学课程组,Shakespeares Life,William Shakespeare is Likely the most influ
9、ential writer in English literature and certainly the most important playwright of the English Renaissance, who was born in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. The son of a successful middle-class glove-maker, Shakespeare attended grammar school, but his formal education procee
10、ded no further. In 1582, he married an older woman, Anne Hathaway, and had three children with her. go,台州学院英国文学课程组,台州学院英国文学课程组,In his life , Shakespeares activities as a dramatist ，poet ，actor , and proprietor ,lasted until the year 1612 when he retired from the stage and returned to Stratford. He d
11、ied on April 23rd， 1616.,台州学院英国文学课程组,The Three Periods of Literary Career （PP71-72）,1st: 1590-1600comedies 2nd: 1601-1608tragedies 3rd: 1609-1612histories,台州学院英国文学课程组,Four Great Tragedies,The corruption of mans heart by evil.Hamlet (1601) Othello(1604) King Lear(1605) Macbeth(1605),台州学院英国文学课程组,Hamle
12、t,台州学院英国文学课程组,Othello,台州学院英国文学课程组,台州学院英国文学课程组,1971 film version of Shakespeares Macbeth.,台州学院英国文学课程组,Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time.He contributed 154 sonnets, 37 plays, and 2 long narrative poems to the literary legacy of the world.,台州学院英国文学课程组,台州学院英国文学课程组,Sonnet 18,Shall I compare
13、thee to a summers day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate; b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a And summers lease hath all too short a date; b Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c And often is his gold complexion dimmed; d And every fair from fair sometime declines, c By
14、chance or natures changing course untrimmed; d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst, f Nor shall death brag thou wand rest in his shade, e When in eternal lines to time thou growst. fSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see, gSo long lives this, and t
15、his gives life to thee. g,台州学院英国文学课程组,Shakespearean Sonnet,Shakespearean sonnet/ English Sonnet (3个四行节阐发一种思想，观点，最后couplet总结）（rhyme scheme/pattern） / / / / / Shall I |compare | thee to | a sum | mers day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b Quatrain 1 Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a And summers lease hath all too short a date: bcd Quatrain2cdef Quatrain3efgg couplet,
