英美文学选读重点笔记归纳.docx

(二)该时期的重要作家

1.一般识记：重要作家的文学生涯

2.识记：重要作品及主要内容

3.领会：重要作家的创作思想，艺术特色及其代表作品的主题结构，人物塑造，语言风格，艺术手法，社会意义等。

4.应用：(1)莎士比亚和邓恩诗歌的主题，意象(2)喜剧《威尼斯商人》的主题和主要人物性格分析

(3)哈姆雷特的性格分析(4)史诗《失乐园》(弥尔顿)的结构，人物性格，语言特点等的分析

Ⅲ.WilliamShakespeare

2.识记HisLifeCareer

TheFirstPeriod(1590-1594)-fivehistoricalplaysfourcomedies:

HenryVI,partI(1590)

HenryVI,partⅡ(1590)

HenryVI,partⅢ(1591)

RichardⅢ(1592)

TitusAndronicus(1593)

TheComedyofErrors(1592)

TheTwoGentlemenofVerona(1594)

TheTamingoftheShrew(1593)

LovesLaborsLost(1594)

TheSecondPeriod(1595-1600)-fivehistoricalplays,sixcomediestwotragedies:RichardⅡ(1595)

KingJohn(1596)

HenryIV,PartIPartⅡ(1597)

HenryV(1598)

AMidsummerNightsDream(1595)

TheMerchantofVenice(1596)

MuchAdoAboutNothing(1598)

AsYouLikeIt(1599)

TwelfthNight(1600)

TheMerryWivesofWinsor(1598)

RomeoJuliet(1595)

JuliusCaesar(1599)

TheThirdPeriod(1601-1609)-Seventragediestwodarkcomedies:

Hamlet

Othello

KingLear

Macbeth

AntonyCleopatra

TroilusCressida

Coriolonus

AlIsWellThatEndsWell

MeasureforMeasure

TheFourthPeriod(1609-1612)-Romantictragic-comediestwoplays:

Pericles

Cymbeline

TheWintesTale

TheTempest

HenryVI

TheTwoNobleKinsmen

Shakespearesauthenticnon-dramaticpoetryconsistsoftwolongnarrativepoems:VenusAdonisTheRapeofLucrecehissequenceof154sonnets.

VI.JohnMilton

1)EducationEarlyPoetry

Lycidas(1637)isatypicalexample.AllofMiltonsearlyworksreflecthisinterestinGreekLatinpoetry,whichgreatlyinfluencedhisstyle.Hispoemscontainawealthofclassicalreferences,figuresofspeech,otherpoeticdevices,allmasterfullyblendedintohisrichverse.

2)MiddlePeriodProsePamphlets

Areopagitica(1644)isprobablyhismostmemorableprose