48. The first English tragedy is _____.
49. Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the
flourishing of ____.
50. In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama. 51. By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.
52. ____ 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 ____ and women’s parts were always
taken by ____.
54. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the
______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.
55. Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.
56. Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____. 57. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______. 58. Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.
59. Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications of
real life.
Key to the blanks: 1. Latin Bible
2. Protestantism; Catholicism 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 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;
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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 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-b
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Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
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 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
1. In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.
3. ______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of
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London at the time of Restoration.
4. _____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. _____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.
6. In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____. 7. In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.
8. In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.
9. Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, 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 ______.
11. Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.
12. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________. 13. Paradise Lost took its material from ______.
14. The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in form.
15. _______ 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 _____. 17. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature. 18. In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters and _____.
Key to the blanks: 1. (John Bunyan) 17. (symbolism) 2. (Puritan) 18. (diaries) 3. (The Pilgrim’s Progress) 4. (John Bunyan’s) 5. (John Dryden) 6. (Dryden)
7. (John Dryden) 8. (John Dryden) 9. (All for Love) 10. (John Dryden) 11. (epics)
12. (Paradise Lost) 13. (mysticism) 14. (the Bible) 15. (Dryden) 16. (man)
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