英美文学

练习题2

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1. The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) between the House of _Lancaster__ and the House of _York_ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.

2. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of _Religous Reformation__ took place in England, started by Henry Ⅷ.

3. The introduction of _printing___ to England by William Caxton brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.

4. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up of feudal relation and the foundation of ___capitalism_______.

5. In Elizabethan Period, __Francis Bacon______ wrote more than fifty excellent essays, which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.

6. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest non-dramatic poet of the Elizabeth Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece _The Faerie Queen_____.

7. From the first half of the 16th century, __the English Renaissance_____ began to develop into a flowering of literature and then England became “a nest of singing birds”.

8. In the Elizabethan Period, __William Shakesperare______ is the greatest playwright of England.

9. __George Herbert_____ is the saint of the metaphysical school.

10. In the Elizabethan Period, __Francis Bacon____ wrote many excellent essays, such as Of Studies.

11. __Edmund Spenser_____ wrote his masterpiece The Faerie Queene.

12. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and __Macbeth___ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.

13. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of __Christopher Marlowe_____’s best plays.

14. Shakespearean Sonnet is made up of three quatrains with different rhymes, followed by a couplet. The rhyme scheme is _abab,cdcd,efef,gg___.

15. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. It was _Christopher Marlowe______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

16. The intellectual energy of the English Renaissance showed itself in the achievement of __ Francis Bacon ______, who is the first English essayist.

17. English Renaissance was an age of ___poetry and drama_____.

18. “Denmark is a prison”. The hero summarizes his observation of his world into such a bitter sentence in _Hamlet_____ written by William Shakespeare.

19. John Milton wrote his masterpiece _The Paradise Lost____ during his blindness.

20. John Donne is a poet of Peculiar _conceit_____, having his own way of reasoning and comparison.

21. _ John Milton ___ is the greatest writer of the 17th century, and one of the giants of English literature.