Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period英美文学课件
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Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period英美文学课件
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Achievements:
Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama. His second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Edmund Spenser (1552-- 1599)
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
The Faerie Queene
incomplete English epic poem
education
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Representative works:
• • • • Tamburlaine the Great (1587-1588) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1589) The Jew of Malta (1590) “The passionate shepherd to his love”
2 long narrative poems
154 sonnets
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
sonnet
a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length, iambic pentameters in English
The Renaissance ppt课件
Learning paper (01) –Check your answers :
一. 单词预习 architecture; philosophy; contribution; employ; trade; art; literature; talent 二. 词性转换 1.disturbing→disturbed→disturb→disturbance 2.motivate→motivation→motivational 3.skilled→skillful→skillfulness 4.passerby→passersby 5.effect→effective
Discuss it according to the map
economy：Trade with other parts of the world…
find out the supporting details in para 3
2. “…tha the arts” Which social level (社会阶层) does “people”
How does the writer develop para4-5?
Group discussion: (inference)
1.What kind of a person do you think Leonardo is ?（adj.）Why? 2. Why is he mentioned at the beginning and the end twice in the passage?
Module 2
Reading and Vocabulary
The Renaissance
Fast-reading: draw the outline.(self-task 3mins)
Lecture 2 The English Renaissance
• Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) – Life The ―Poet‘s poet‖ of the period was Edmund Spenser. He was buried beside Chaucer in Westminster Abbey.
– The Faerie Queene Spenser‘s fame in English literature is chiefly based upon his The Faerie Queene (published in 1589-96). The Faerie Queene is a long poem planned in twelve books, of which he finished only six. The work was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
Map of Utopia
• Book Two – In Book Two we have a sketch of an ideal society in some unknown ocean, where social property is held in common and the there is no private property. – In Utopia, the main work of the magistrate is to control and organize the economic life of the country.
Page from Utopia
– question of the separation of town and country. – every member of the society, works six hours a day. After work the citizens spend their time in studying literature, art and science. – All religions in this ideal society are authorized and tolerance is the law.
The Literature of the Renaissance Period PPT课件 北京版
Othello is a tragedy humanism. His inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force.
King Lear is based on an old British legend. The Old King Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity
Sonnet (十四行诗)
Sonnet is one of the most conventional and influential forms of poetry in Europe.
A sonnet is lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme.
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32、肯承认错误则错已改了一半。
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33、快乐不是因为拥有的多而是计较的少。
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34、好方法事半功倍，好习惯受益终身。
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35、生命可以不轰轰烈烈，但应掷地有声。
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36、每临大事，心必静心，静则神明，豁然冰释。
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37、别人认识你是你的面容和躯体，人们定义你是你的头脑和心灵。
The Cause of Renaissance
The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture;
The new discoveries in geography and astrology;
King Lear is based on an old British legend. The Old King Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity
Sonnet (十四行诗)
Sonnet is one of the most conventional and influential forms of poetry in Europe.
A sonnet is lyric consisting of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme.
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32、肯承认错误则错已改了一半。
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33、快乐不是因为拥有的多而是计较的少。
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34、好方法事半功倍，好习惯受益终身。
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35、生命可以不轰轰烈烈，但应掷地有声。
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36、每临大事，心必静心，静则神明，豁然冰释。
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37、别人认识你是你的面容和躯体，人们定义你是你的头脑和心灵。
The Cause of Renaissance
The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture;
The new discoveries in geography and astrology;
(完整版)英美文学选读课PPTLectureTwo
• The battle between Beowulf and the Dragon symbolically can be seen as the fight between summer and winter gods. Beowulf represents the Summer God, and the Dragon is the symbol of the Winter Dragon. Finally he kills the Dragon and brings life to earth again.
● Beowulf killed Grendel’s mother and be the king of the country.
● Beowulf fought against the fire dragon and died.
The Theme
• How the primitive people struggles against the hostile forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader.
Beowulf
The Story
● Hrothgar, built a great hall named Heorot ● The hall was later harassed by a monster named Grendel. ● Beowulf fought againsts Grendel and killed him. ● Grendel’s mother came to revenge.
The earliest inhabitants in England: the Celts, from the upper Rhineland
● Beowulf killed Grendel’s mother and be the king of the country.
● Beowulf fought against the fire dragon and died.
The Theme
• How the primitive people struggles against the hostile forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader.
Beowulf
The Story
● Hrothgar, built a great hall named Heorot ● The hall was later harassed by a monster named Grendel. ● Beowulf fought againsts Grendel and killed him. ● Grendel’s mother came to revenge.
The earliest inhabitants in England: the Celts, from the upper Rhineland
第二讲 The English Renaissance
3. Edmund Spenser (1552- 1599) • poets’ poet: superb technical skill, perfect melodies, rare sense of beauty, splendid imagination, lofty moral purity and seriousness, & delicate idealism. • The Shepherd’s Calendar (1579): a pastoral poem in 12 eclogues (each for a month). • The Amoretti: sequence of 89 sonnets, love poems to his future wife. * Petrarchan sonnet: octave (abba abba) + sestet (cde cde); * Spenserian sonnet: ababbcbc cdcd ee; * Shakespearean (English) sonnet: abab cdcd efef gg.
* It is considered that the scarcity of rhyming words in English explains the greater number of rhymes and freedom in the rhyming scheme in contrast to the Petrarchan form. * Spenserian stanza: ababbcbcc (8 lines in iambic pentameter, the 9th line in Alexandrine)
• Renaissance in England * Beginning in 1485 with the end of the War of Roses (1455-1485) and the reign of the House of Tudor; * 3 stages: beginning of English renaissance (1485 - 1558); Elizabethan age (1558 - 1603); James I (1603 - 25), Charles I (1625 - 49), the Puritan revolution (1640 - 1660). 王佐良: * the late coming of English renaissance resulted from distant location of England, the stability of its culture and the variety of Chaucer; * English renaissance was influenced by the European renaissance giants as well as the Greek and Roman classics;
The English RenaissancePPT教学课件
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❖ Humanism was an attitude rather than a philosophy, non-dogmatic(非教义).
❖ According to humanists, man should mould(塑造) the world according to his own desires, and attain happiness by removing all external checks by the exercise of the human intellect. Humanism was one of the most important factors giving rise to the Renaissance.
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The English Renaissance
❖ The Renaissance was a European phenomenon. It had its origin in north Italy in the fourteenth century, and spread northward to other European countries--to France, to Germany, to the Low Countries, and lastly to England. It revived the study of Roman and Greek classics and marked the beginning of bourgeois revolution. During the period of English Renaissance England enjoyed stability and prosperity. It became the strong power in the world and the mistress(霸主） on the seas. The English Renaissance encouraged the Reformation of the Church. English King, Henry VIII, who started the Reformation, declared the break with Rome and became head of the English Church. Thus Catholicism was got rid of in England. Protestantism was established.
英国文学Chapter 2 Renaissance
Hamlet
Discussion questions(请回答下列问题): 1. what are his four greatest tragedies ? Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. 2. What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common? Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.
*2. The Essence: Humanism
Man: the measure of all. To exalt human nature
Emphasis: the dignity of men; the importance of
the present life. Advocating: Men are glorious creatures capable of perfecting themselves, and performing wonders. To see the human values and arts of splendor and enlightenment in Greek and Roman civilization.
Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate; b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a And summer's lease hath all too short a date; b Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, c And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; d And every fair from fair sometime declines, c By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; f Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, e When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: f So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, g So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g
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Adapted from a popular old German legend
Tired with the study of Medieval knowledge (Theology, Philosophy, Medicine, Law), Dr. Faustus turns to magic book and signs a contract with the devil Mephistopheles. He sells his soul to the devil on the condition that the latter will satisfy every demand of his for a period of 24 years.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Queen Elizabeth (Tudor) (1558-- 1603)
“Balance” the rising middle class ------ feudal lords
Protestants ------ Catholics
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Historical Background 1. Renaissance in Europe: 14th -- mid-17th Slow in reaching England, Why? a. separation from the continent b. domestic unrest: 1st, Wars of the Roses: 1455-1485 (aristocrats) 2nd, Hundred Years War: 14th-15th (Bri-Fran)
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Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Representative works:
ቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ• • • • Tamburlaine the Great (1587-1588) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (1589) The Jew of Malta (1590) “The passionate shepherd to his love”
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Comments on him:
Spenser was the greatest non-dramatic poet of the Elizabethan Age. Spenser has been called the “poets’ poet”, because of his idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody. Spenser has exerted great influence on later poets.
Comedies
Tragedies
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
3) Great tragedies
Four tragedies
Dark comedies 4) Romantic tragicomedies
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium-Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.-Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies!-Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
The old aristocracy was wiped out.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
King Henry VIII of the Tudor House (1509-1547) Roman Catholic Church
Church of England Religious Reformation
Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Humanism:
Humanism is both the keynote of the Renaissance and the intellectual liberation movement.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Edmund Spenser (1552-- 1599)
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
The Faerie Queene
incomplete English epic poem
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Generally, his dramatic career is divided into four periods.
1) Apprenticeship:
History plays Comedies 2) Individualized: History plays
The humanists took interest in human life and human activities and gave expression to the new feeling of admiration for human beauty, human achievement.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Chief Achievements
1.Poetry: prosperous
“a nest of singing birds”
sonnet
2. Drama:
Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare blank verse London--- centre of drama performance
2 long narrative poems
154 sonnets
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
sonnet
a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length, iambic pentameters in English
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Then a series of adventures and romances follow the signing of the contract. First his romance with a woman, then his visit to Alexander the Great and later a visit from Helen of Troy. The play ends with Faustus’ forced surrender of his soul to the devil.
It is a very popular verse form in English poetry. It was extensively employed in English poetry of the Renaissance.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
His work paved the way for the plays of the greatest English dramatist--- Shakespeare.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Blank verse refers to verse written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
Achievements:
Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama. His second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.
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Lecture 2 The Renaissance Period
The word “Renaissance” means revival or rebirth, and in this particular context, it means the revival of arts and sciences of ancient Greece and Rome after long years of neglect in the medieval time. “Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period…. Roman Catholic Church.”