___ Sir Thomas Wyatt,___ and __40___ by __ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey ___.
35. Philip Sidney thought that __ poetry ___ had superiority over philosophy and
history.
36. ___ Utopia, Book One __ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible
exposure of the _ poverty __ among the laboring classes.
37. More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ private ownership _____ of
social wealth.
38. Sonnets contain __ Italian/Petrarchan ___ sonnets and __ Shakespearean __ sonnets. 39. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its __ Drama __. 40. The “miracles” were simple plays based on ___ Bible ___stories.
41. There are significant touches of __ real ___ life in the play titled The Shepherds. 42. A morality play presented the __ Conflict ___ of good and ___ evil __ with __
allegorical ___personages.
43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern __ Clown ___.
44. Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact
with ___ Greek ___ and ___ Latin ___drama.
45. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the
important rules in __ Structure __ and __ style __, the more exact conception of __ comedy __ and __ tragedy __.
46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the
__16th __ century.
47. The first English comedy is ___ Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》___. 48. The first English tragedy is ___ Gorboduc 《高波特克》__.
49. Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the
flourishing of __ Drama __.
50. In the 16th century __London ___ became the centre of English drama. 51. By __1567__, professional actors were organized into companies.
52. __ Elizabethan theatres __ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with
tiers（一排排） of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.
53. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no __ actress __ and women’s parts were
always taken by __ boys __.
54. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the
___ countryside ___, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life. 55. Shakespeare was a great __ master __ of the English language.
56. Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of __adaptation
(revision)___.
57. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ___ Renaissance ___. 58. Shakespeare was a __ master-hand (能手)___ for play-writing.
59. Shakespeare’s ___ full-blood __ people represent all the complexities and
implications of real life.
Key to the blanks: 1. Latin Bible
2. Protestantism; Catholicism
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3. Protestants
4. John Wycliffe; Reformation
5. William Tyndal
6. Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible. 7. Language; literature 8. fixed; confirmed 9. Bible coinages 10. simple; dignified 11. William Caxton 12. Reading; literature 39. Drama 40. Bible 41. real
42. Conflict; evil; allegorical 43. Clown
44. Greek; Latin
45. Structure; style; comedy; tragedy 46. 16th
47. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝13. First
14. Shakespeare 15. Printer; publisher 16. 100; 24 17. 15th ; prose 18. National
19. Publisher; culture 20. 14th; 17th
21. Religious reformation
22. feudalist ideas; interests; purity
23. Humanism; human mind; human culture
24. Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc
25. Lancaster; York 26. The Reformation
27. the Enclosure Movement; proletarians 28. printing
29. feudal; capitalism 30. sheep devours men 31. William VIII 32. Renaissance
33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
34. 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 35. poetry
36. Utopia, Book One; poverty 37. private ownership 38. Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean
衣针》
48. Gorboduc 《高波特克》 49. Drama 50. London 51. 1567
52. Elizabethan theatres 53. actress; boys 54. countryside 55. master
56. adaptation (revision) 57. Renaissance
58. master-hand (能手) 59. full-blood
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Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissance
1. Comment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff. 2. Comment on the character of Hamlet.
3. What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?
4. Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.
5. Comment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement. 6. Comment on The Faerie Queene.
Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
I. Choose the right answer.
1. The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.
A. aabbccbbc B. abbacdccd C. abacdeec D. ababcdcdd
2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in
the later democratic revolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in England D. Areopagitica
3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the
later sacred verses.
A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John Dryden 4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.
A. Holy Sonnets B. Witchcraft by a Picture C. The Sun Rising D. Death, Be Not Proud
5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.
A. The Altar B. To His Coy Mistress
C. To Daffodils D. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May 6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne B. George Herbert C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan
7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?
A. Richard Crashaw B. Henry Vaughan C. Andrew Marvell D. Robert Burton 8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.
A. The Anatomy of Melancholy B. Religio Mecici C. Holy Dying D. Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the
simple and kind people.
A. The Compleat Angler B. Holy Living
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C. To His Coy Mistress D. To Daffadils
10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?
A. John Suckling B. Richard Lovelace C. Robert Herrick D. John Dryden
11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th
century.
A. John Dryden B. Richard Steele C. Joseph Addison D. Alexander Pope
Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD
II. Fill in the blanks.
1. In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, ____(John Bunyan)___ occupies the most important place.
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the ___(Puritan) __ Age.
3. ___(The Pilgrim’s Progress)___gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
4. ___(John Bunyan’s) __masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.
5. ___(John Dryden) __ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.
6. In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of __(Dryden) ___.
7. In political affairs, __(John Dryden)__ was quite changeable in attitude.
8. In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, __(John Dryden)__ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.
9. Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is ___(All for Love)____, a tragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
10. The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ___(John Dryden) ___.
11. Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ___(epics)___.
12. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece ____(Paradise Lost)______. 13. Paradise Lost took its material from ___(mysticism)___.
14. The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by ___(the Bible)__in content and fantasticality in form.
15. ___(Dryden)____ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.
16. Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of __(man) ___.
17. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and __(symbolism)___ is another
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