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The Renaissance
Time
:
1500
–
1660
The English Renaissance was a cultural
and artistic movement in England dating from
the late 15th and early 16th centuries
to the early 17th century.
Backgrounds:
Following the
introduction
of a printing press
into England by
William Caxton in
1476, vernacular
literature flourished
The
Reformation
（宗教改革）
inspired
the
production
of
vernacular
（白话的）
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liturgy
（
祈祷书）
which led to the Book of Common P
rayer
（
英国国教教会祈祷书）
,
a lasting influence on literary
language.
Representatives:
Poets:
Edmund Spenser (
1552
–
1599)
Works:
The Faerie Queene
Epithalamion
Amoretti
William
Shakespeare
Works:
Sonnet 18
A Lover's Complaint
The Phoenix and
the Turtle
Sir Philip
Sidney(1554
–
1586)
Works: Astrophel and
Stella
The Defence of Poetry
(essay)
The Countess of Pembroke's
Arcadia
(Prose)
Blank
verse:
blank verse is poetry
written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Sonnet:
a
poem
of
fourteen
lines
that
follows
a
strict
rhyme
scheme
and
specific
structure.
A
Shakespearean,
or
English,
sonnet
consists
of
fourteen
lines
written
in
iambic
pentameter, a pattern in which an
unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed
syllable
five times.
The rhyme scheme :a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d,
e-f-e-f, g-g
three quatrains and one couplet.
A
Italian
sonnet
includes
two
parts
that
together
formed
a
compact
form
of
First,
the
octave
(two
quatrains),
forms
the
which
describes
a
or
followed
by
a
sestet
(two
tercets),
which
proposes a
The rhyme scheme:
a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a,
c-d-e-c-d-e
or
a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a, c-d-c-c-
d-c
Dramatist:
Christopher
Marlowe
Doctor Faustus
William Shakespeare
Four
comedies:
A Midsummer
Night's Dream
《仲夏夜之梦》
Merchant of
Venice
《威尼斯商人》
As You Like
It
《皆大欢喜》
Twelfth
Night
《第十二夜》
Four tragedies:
Hamlet
《哈姆雷特》
Othello
《奥赛罗》
Macbeth
《麦克白》
King
Lear
《李尔王》