Medieval / Middle English
(poetry, romance and ballad)
Geoffrey Chaucer英雄诗歌之父14th
Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集(1stmasterpiece),The House of Fame声誉之堂,Troilus and Criseyde特罗勒斯与克丽西德, The parliament of fowls.
(410-1066)
Anglo-Saxon
(poetry)
Beowulf贝奥武甫
The national epic of the English people.
MedievalEngland
(1066-1400)
中世纪
(The Wars of Roses, Founding of the Tudor Dynasty)
He wrote the greatest epic in literature ---- .
He was the first to use blank verse in non-dramatic works.
He ranks with Shakespeare as two patterns of English verse.
Ben Johnson
讽刺喜剧：Volpone狐狸、The Alchemist炼金术师、Every Man in His Humor人人高兴
抨击当时社会追逐金钱风气
Francis Bacon
Essays; NewAtlantic; The Proficience and Adventure of Learning
John Bunyan班扬
Pilgrim’s Progress天路历程;
The Life and Death of Mr. Badman.
John Donne邓恩
Romance
Knight’s adventure and love
Robin Hood Ballads:
Lytell Geste of Robin Hood《罗宾汉英雄事迹小唱》
The Pre-Elizabethan and Elizabethan Ages (1400-1603) (The Reformation and the Enclosure Movement )
The founder / father of English poetry, and the earliest forerunner of realism. Createthe Heroic Couplet英雄诗行
The Arthurian legends:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight高文爵士和绿衣骑士
William Shakespeare
Tragedies:Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet.
(The summit of his plays: H.)
Comedies:A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant ofVenice, Twelfth Night
History of English Literature
Historical period
Literary
Period
Representative writers
Representative works
Significance
中世纪文学和文艺复兴时期（5世纪-17世纪）
Old English
古英语文学
The first English Essayist; founder of modern science inEngland(materialist philosophy).
Revolution and Restoration
(the 17thcentury) (English Bourgeois Revolution, the Restoration, and the “Glorious Revolution”)
Christopher Marlowe马洛
Tamburlaine《铁木耳传》
Dr. Faustus《浮士德悲剧》The Jew of Malta《马尔他岛的犹太人》
The greatest pioneer of English drama. He reformed the English drama by adopting blank verse素体诗as the principal form.
Histories：HenryⅣ, King John
Dramatic Romance传奇剧：The Tempest暴风雨
One of the founders of realism in world literature; the summit of the English Renaissance; fist-rank writer the world over.Sonnet
Renaissance
(Humanism)
(Poetry and drama)
以人为本
Thomas More莫尔
Utopia
The forerunner of modern socialist thought.
Edmund Spenser斯宾塞 great influences on all the later poets. (Spenserian stanza/sonnet斯宾塞诗体-9行)
Revolution and Restoration
(two literary camps)
(Poetry: Puritan, Cavalier, Metaphysical.)
John Milton 17th
Lycidas;Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes力士参孙; Pro Populo Anglicano Defense; Pro Populo Anglicano Defense Secunda