1564-1616
William Shakespeare
威廉·莎士比亚
Four comedies：
1.A midsummer night’sdream
2.The Merchant of Venice
3.As You Like it
4.Twelfth night
Four tragedies:
1.Hamlet
英国中世纪文学史大致可分为盎格鲁-撒克逊（The Anglo-Saxon Period,449-1066）和中古英语（The Middle English Period,1066-1485）两个时期。
The making of the England: Jutes, Angles and Saxons invaded Albion and combined into one United Kingdom-the England.Their dialects gradually grew into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or Old English.Feudal system was established；Roman Catholic Church controlled over the country.
杰弗利·乔叟
The Canterbury Tales（Masterpiece）
坎特伯雷故事集
theFather of English poetry英国诗歌之父，the forerunner of English renaissance英国文艺复兴先驱，metrical form (格律形式) laid the foundation of the English verse格律形式奠定了基础的英语节律，theheroic couplet英雄双韵体
2.Othello
3.King Lear
4.The tragedy of Macbeth
The Tempest
四大喜剧：
1.仲夏夜之梦
2.威尼斯商人
3.皆大欢喜
4.第十二夜
四大悲剧：
1.哈姆雷特
2.奥赛罗
3.李尔王
4.麦克白
暴风雨
above all writers in the past andin the present time，he produced 2 long narrative poems, 154 sonnets and 38plays两首长诗歌，154首十四行诗和38部戏剧，represents the climax of the Renaissance代表了文艺复兴时期的高潮，one of the first founders of realism第一个现实主义的创始人之一，an encyclopedia of the Elizabethan Age伊丽莎白时代的百科全书，the largest command ofvocabulary他有最大的词汇量，Aeschylus and Shakespeare as“the two greatestdramatic geniusesthe world has ever known”埃斯库罗斯和莎士比亚是“两个世界历来所知最伟大的戏剧天才”
The Faerie Queen
仙后
the poets’ poet诗人中的诗人
歌颂女王，宣扬人文主义思想
TheSpenserian Stanza斯宾塞诗体
1564-1593
Christopher Marlowe
克里斯扥夫·马洛
Dr Fauctus
Tamburlaine
The Jew of Malta
Thomas More
托马斯·莫尔
Utopia
乌托邦
理想国，空想主义的代名词，开创英国哲理幻想小说传统的先河
the first to introduce the Sonnet into English literature首先把十四行诗译成英语文学
1552-1599
Edmund Spenser
埃德蒙·斯宾赛
英国文学作家作品列表
Period
Historical Background
Life Time
Name
CN Name
Writings
CN Writings
Notes
Early&Medieval Period(449-1485)
早期中世纪时期
（poetry, Romance, Popular ballad）
The Enclosure movement: compelled peasants to become the hired laborers for the merchants.
Flourishing in the Elizabethan Age: The commercial expansion and the rise of bourgeoisie.
浮士德博士的悲剧
帖木耳大帝
马耳他的犹太人
The Renaissance exploration spirit andextreme individualism spirit文艺复兴探索精神和极端的个人主义精神,the greatest playwright before Shakespeare莎士比亚之前最伟大的剧作家，“University Wit”大学才子派, the pioneer of English drama
Renaissance
Perቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱod
(Humanism)
(late 15th century ~ early 17th century)
文艺复兴
伊丽莎白时代（The Elizabethan Age）的英国戏剧是英国文艺复兴时期所有文学形式中最辉煌的一种，代表了英国乃至整个欧洲文艺复兴时期文学创
作的最高成就。
700-750
Boewulf
贝奥武甫
英国的民族史诗(thenational epic of the English people) stricking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements.
1343-1400
Geoffrey Chaucer
［poetry (sonnet and blank verse), drama, essay］
The Wars of the Roses (1455-1485) and Tudor dynasty which was established by Henry VII in 1485.
Reformation: Protestantismbecame the official national religion.
The war with Spain: in 1588, the Spanish Armada was defeated. England had sovereignty over the seas.
文艺复兴具有三个主要特征:古希腊、罗马文化的复兴；知识的复兴;人文主义运动的发展。
1478-1535