Early and Medieval English LiteratureThree famouse Conquests:The Roman Conquest (55BC- 410AD)The Anglo-Saxon Conquest (449-1066)The Norman Conquest (1066-1485)The Anglo—Saxon Poetry: Pagan Poetry (Beowulf)Religious Poetry (Caedmon and Cynewulf)The Anglo-Saxon Prose: (Prose appeared in the 8th century )Venerable Bede (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)Alfred the Great Medieval Literature1066: Anglo-Saxon Period bagan1200: Middle English Literature baganRaman Cycles: ”Matters of Rome" ”Matters of France" ”Matters of Britain"(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century):1。The Romance of the Rose (translation from French) 2.The House of Fame 3.Trolius and Criseide 4。The Canterbury TalesJohn Wycliffe (14th century): the first attempt to translate the latin version of the Bible into Middle EnglishEnglish Renaissance literature ( the late 15th century —middle 17th century)Wars and RefromationThomas More (the first English humanist)UtopiaEdmund Spencer: The Shepherds CalendarThe Faerie QueeneEpithalamion 1595Bacon: the first English essayistAdvancement of Learning 〈<论学术的进展〉>Novum Organum <<新工具>〉Maxim of the Law 〈〈法律箴言〉〉Reading on the Statute of Uses <〈谈使用法则〉>Essays<〈随笔〉>University WitsChristopher Marlowe:Tamburlanine the Great The Jew of MaltaThe Tragical History of Doctore FaustusWilliam Shakespear 37plays ,154 sonnets , and 2 narrative poemsComedies:The Comedy of Error The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona Love's labour's Lost // A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice As You Like It Twelfth Night // Troilus and Cressida Tragedies : Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet // Julius Caesar // Antony and Cleopatra // Hamlet Othello King Lea...