英国文学 文艺复兴

英国文学 文艺复兴的思维导图，内容有Elizabethan Prose、Elizabethan Poetry、Elizabethan Drama、The Metaphysicals。

Part Two

• Elizabethan Prose
  • Thomas More
    • "Utopia"
    • reality, an ideal communist society
  • Francis Bacon
    • first English essayist
    • inductive method of reasoning
• Elizabethan Poetry
  • John Lyly
    • "Euphues"
    • "Anatomy of Wit"
    • euphuism
  • Sir Philip Sidney
    • "Arcadia"
    • "Astrophel and Stella"
    • "Apology for Poetry"
  • Edmund Spencer
    • "The Shepherd's Calender"
    • "The Amoretti"
    • "Faerie Queene"
    • a nest of singing birds
• Elizabethan Drama
  • influences
    • 1. came from the classics
    • 2. popular
  • University Wits
    • John Lyly
    • Thomas Lodge
    • George Peele
    • Robert Greene
    • Thomas Nashe
    • Christopher Marlowe
  • Christopher Marlowe
    • tragedies
      • "Tamburlaine"
      • "Dr.Faustus"
      • "The Jew of Malta"
      • "Edward II"
    • achievements
      • he first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama; he replaced the stilted heroes of previous drama by men of vitality and passion- in short.
      • he created the Renaissance hero for the English drama. His works paved the way for the plays of the greatest English dramatist-Shakespeare, whose achievements were the monument of the English Renaissance.
  • Ben Jonson
    • "Volpone"
    • "The Alchemist"
    • theory of "humours"
  • William Shakespeare
    • works
      • 37 plays
        • Four comedies
          • A Midsummer Night's Dream
          • • The Merchant of Venice
          • As You Like It
          • Tvelfth Night
        • • Four tragedies
            • Hamlet
            • Othello
            • King Lear
            • • Macbeth
      • 154 sonnets
      • 2 long narrative poems
    • • Dramatic Achievement
        • dramatic skills
          • theme
          • character
          • plot construction
          • learned from many sources
          • combination
          • use psychology
          • typical situation create typical character
        • five aspects
          • The progressive significance of his themesHis successtul character portrayal;His masterhand in constructing plays;The ingenuity of his poetry;His mastery of English language.
• The Metaphysicals
  • John Donne
    • works
      • Songs and Sonnets
      • Devotion Upon Emergent Occasions
    • features
      • arresting and original images and conceits, wit, ingenuity, dexterous use of coloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes, and caustic humour.
  • John Milton
    • Purtitan
    • works
      • first period---'L' Allegre and IL Penseroso"
      • second period---"The Reason of Church"
      • third period---"Paradise Lost"
    • features
      • 1.his Puritanism and his republicanism. 2.Milton is especially a an an great master of blank verse. He learned much from Shakespeare and first used blank verse in non-dramatic works. 3.Milton is a great stylist. 4. Milton has always been admired for his sublimity of thought and majesty of expression.
  • John Bunyan
    • Joined Parliamentary army in 1647
    • "The Pilgrim's Progress"
    • Bunyan uses the simple, unaffected language of the common people, as well as a simple, lively and vivid prose style, ennobled by the solemn dignity of the English Bible.