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1、如果您需要使用本文档，请点击下载按钮下载!A Concise History of British LiteratureChapter 1 English Literature of Anglo-Saxon PeriodI. Introduction1. The historical background(1) Before the Germanic invasion(2) During the Germanic invasiona. immigration; b. Christianity; c. heptarchy. d. social classes structure: hide-hu
2、ndred; eoldermen (lord) thane - middle class (freemen) - lower class (slave or bondmen: theow); e. social organization: clan or tribes. f. military Organization; g. Church function: spirit, civil service, education; h. economy: coins, trade, slavery; i. feasts and festival: Halloween, Easter; j. leg
3、al system.2. The Overview of the culture(1) The mixture of pagan and Christian spirit.(2) Literature: a. poetry: two types; b. prose: two figures.II. Beowulf.1. A general introduction.2. The content.3. The literary features. (1) the use of alliteration (2) the use of metaphors and understatements (3
4、) the mixture of pagan and Christian elementsIII. The Old English Prose1. What is prose?2. figures(1) The Venerable Bede(2) Alfred the GreatChapter 2 English Literature of the Late Medieval AgesI. Introduction1. The Historical Background.(1) The year 1066: Norman Conquest.(2) The social situations s
5、oon after the conquest.A. Norman nobles and serfs; B. restoration of the church.(3) The 11th century.A. the crusade and knights.B. dominance of French and Latin;1 / 29如果您需要使用本文档，请点击下载按钮下载!(4) The 12th century.A. the centralized government;B. kings and the church (Henry II and Thomas);(5) The 13th ce
6、ntury.A. The legend of Robin Hood;B. Magna Carta (1215);C. the beginning of the ParliamentD. English and Latin: official languages (the end)(6) The 14th century.a. the House of Lords and the House of Commonsconflict between the Parliament and Kings;b. the rise of towns.c. the change of Church.d. the
7、 role of women.e. the Hundred Years Warstarting.f. the development of the trade: London.g. the Black Death.h. the Peasants Revolt1381.i. The translation of Bible by Wycliff.(7) The 15th century.a. The Peasants Revolt (1453)b. The War of Roses between Lancasters and Yorks.c. the printing-pressWilliam
8、 Caxton.d. the starting of Tudor Monarchy(1485)2. The Overview of Literature.(1) the stories from the Celtic lands of Wales and Brittanygreat myths of the Middle Ages.(2) Geoffrye of MonmouthHistoria Regum BritanniaeKing Authur.(3) WaceLe Roman de Brut.(4) The romance.(5) the second half of the 14th
9、 century: Langland, Gawin poet, Chaucer.II. Sir Gawin and Green Knight.1. a general introduction.2. the plot.III. William Langland.1. Life 2. Piers the PlowmanIV. Chaucer1. Life2. Literary Career: three periods (1) French period2 / 29如果您需要使用本文档，请点击下载按钮下载! (2) Italian period (3) master period3. The C
10、anterbury TalesA. The Framework; B. The General Prologue;C. The Tale Proper.4. His Contribution. (1) He introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types. (2) He is the first great poet who wrote in the current English language. (3) The spoken English of the time consisted of several dialect
11、s, and Chaucer did much in making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.V. Popular Ballads.VI. Thomas Malory and English ProseVII. The beginning of English Drama.1. Miracle Plays.Miracle play or mystery play is a form of medieval drama that came from dramatization of the l
12、iturgy of the Roman Catholic Church. It developed from the 10th to the 16th century, reaching its height in the 15th century. The simple lyric character of the early texts was enlarged by the addition of dialogue and dramatic action. Eventually the performance was moved to the churchyard and the mar
13、ketplace.2. Morality Plays.A morality play is a play enforcing a moral truth or lesson by means of the speech and action of characters which are personified abstractions figures representing vices and virtues, qualities of the human mind, or abstract conceptions in general.3. Interlude.The interlude
14、, which grew out of the morality, was intended, as its name implies, to be used more as a filler than as the main part of an entertainment. As its best it was short, witty, simple in plot, suited for the diversion of guests at a banquet, or for the relaxation of the audience between the divisions of
15、 a serious play. It was essentially an indoors performance, and generally of an aristocratic nature.Chapter 3 English Literature in the RenaissanceI. A Historical BackgroundII. The Overview of the Literature (1485-1660)Printing pressreadershipgrowth of middle classtrade-education for laypeople-centralizatio
