The English Renaissance (1)

这是一篇关于The English Renaissance的思维导图，主要内容有Prose、Poetry、Drama、Humanism等。

The English Renaissance

• Prose
  • Thomas More
    • Works
      • Utopia
        • Book One
          • reality
        • Book Two
          • an ideal communist society
      • The History of King Richard Ill
      • The Life of John Picus, Earl of Myrandula
    • Humanist
  • Francis Bacon
    • Of Studies
• Poetry
  • Edmund Spender
    • Poet’s poet
      • A perfect melody A lofty moral purity and seriousness Splendid imagination A rare sense of beauty New verse form Idealism
    • Spenserian Stanza
      • A nine-line stanza. Thefirst eight lines are written in iambic pentameter. The ninth line is written in iambic hexameter. The rhyme scheme is ababbcbcc. The Faerie Queene is written in Spenserian Stanza.
    • The Faerie Queene
      • 6 books
      • Virtue
        • Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship,Justice, Courtesy
• Drama
  • Christopher Marlowe
    • The most gifted of “university wits” Pave the way for Shakespeare
    • Works
      • Tamburlaine
        • for power
      • The Jew of Malta
        • for wealth
      • Doctor Faustus
        • for knowledge
    • Literary Achievement
      • Pioneer of English drama
      • Blank verse
      • Mighty line
  • Shakespeare
    • Four periods
      • Works
      • Features
    • Works
      • 37 plays
        • Four comedies
          • A Midsummer Night's Dream
          • The Merchant of Venice
          • As You Like lt
          • Tvelfth Night
        • Four tragedies
          • Hamlet
          • Othello
          • King Lear
          • Macbeth
      • 154 sonnets
      • 2 long narrative poems
    • Dramatic Achievement
      • 37 plays
      • types
      • dramatic skills
        • theme
        • character
        • plot construction
        • learned from many sources
        • combination
        • use psychology
        • typical situation create typical character
      • dramatic form
• Humanism
  • Definition
• The Renaissance
  • Definition
  • Features
• Background
  • The new monarchy
  • The reformation
  • The English bible
  • The enclosure movement
  • The commercial expansion
  • The war with Spain