英国文学习题与练习Week2EarlyandMedievalEnglishLiteratureReferenceQuestions:1.WhoweretheearliestsettlersofBritton/England?Whatdoyouknowaboutthem(home,language,belief,lifestyle)?2.Whatarethe3conquests?Whateffectstheyhaduponthenation?3.Ideologicallywhatisthemostsignificantchangeinpeople’sspirituallife?4.Howwasthenationdevelopedpoliticallyorwhatchangeswerethereintheformofthesocialstructure?5.Intermsofliterature,whatinfluencehadtheFrenchuponEngland?6.HowmanylanguageswerespokenduringtheFrenchreign?HowdoyouunderstandmodernEnglishasalanguage?7.WhatwastheessenceofChristiandoctrinepreachedatthetime?Wasthereanyignoblereasonbehindit?8.WhywastheMiddleAgesknownastheDarkAges?9.Whatwastheformofliteratureatthetime?Whatfeaturesdoesithave?10.Whatarethe3periods/stagesofChaucer’sliterarycareer?11.InwhatwaydowecallChaucer’sCanterburyTalesthefirstworkofEnglishliterature?Textstudy:Chaucer’sCanterburyTales(6-7)1.Whatisimageofthenun?2.Isshefavorablyandadmirablyorsatiricallyportrayed?How?3.Whatfiguresofspeechareused?Week3Renaissance(1)Referencequestions:1.WhatisRenaissance?Howandwhydiditcomeabout?2.Whatisthedevelopmentofdrama?Whatweretheoriginalformsandcontentandpracticeofdrama?3.WhydiddramaflourishinElizabethanage?Whoarethemajorplaywrightsofthetime?4.WhoisMarlowe?WhatcontributionsdidhemaketoEnglishdrama?5.WhoisShakespeare?Whatfamousandgreatplays(history,comedy,tragedy)?Whatfeatures?6.WhatdidBenJonsonwriteabout?Whatrepresentativework?7.PreparetheexcerptfromHamlet(31-32).Whatisitmainlyabout?Whathumanistideacanyoufindinthesoliloquy?8.Whatwasthemostimportanttranslationofthetime?Week4Renaissance(2)ReferencequestionsonShakespeareandHamlet:1.WhyisShakespeareaneternalsubjectofstudy?Wherelieshisgreatness?2.WhatarethethemesofHamlet?3.WhatisthesignificanceofHamletasacharacter?4.Whatisblankverse?5.Whatissoliloquy?TextstudyHamlet’ssoliloquy“Tobeornottobe”(31-32)1.WhatisthemainideaofHamlet’ssoliloquy?Summarizeinoneortwosentencesthemainideaofthesoliloquy?2.Howdoesthesoliloquyreflectthespiritofthetimeortheideaofhumanism?3.HowdoyouanalyzeHamlet’sargumentintermsofstructure?Week5Renaissance(3)QuestionsforRenaissancepoetryandprose:1.WhowasthoughttobethegreatestEnglishpoetsinceChaucer?Whatishisrepresentativework?Whatarethefeaturesofthispoem?2.Whatnewforms(rhyme—blankverse,stanza--sonnet)ofpoetrywereintroducedintoEngland?Bywhom?3.Whowerethefamoussonneteersofthetime?4.HowdoyoutellanItalian(Petrarchan)sonnetfromanEnglish(aShakespearean)one?5.HowmanysonnetsdidShakespearewrite?Whatarethemajorsubjects?6.Whowerethetwomajorprosewriters?WhatisUtopia?WheredoyouthinkMorepossiblygottheideaorwasitallhisowninvention?Howdoyouinterpretthetitleofthebook?7.WhatcontributiondidBaconmaketotheEnglishsystemofthinkingandlearning?8.What’sthepurposeofhisEssays?9.Basedonyourreadingofhiswork,giveyourpersonalimpressionof/commentonhisEssays?10.TheEnglishRenaissanceperiodisknownforitstranslations.Whatarethemostimportanttranslationsofthisage?TextstudyQuestionsonSonnet18byShakespeare(58):1.WhatistheEnglishsonnetform?Studythemetricalandrhymeschemeaswellasthestructure?2.What’sthemainidea?Isitreallyaboutlove?Whatispeculiarofthislovepoem?3.Whatfiguresofspeechareused?Questionson“OfStudies”byF.Bacon(52-53):1.Howdoyoudefinethestyle?2.StudytheessaybycomparingtheEnglishversionwiththetranslationofMrWang.HowdoyouliketheChineseversion?3.Paraphras...
