英美文学选读简答题英国部分ⅠThe Renaissance Period 1. Edmund Spenser (1) What are the five characteristics of Spenser’s poetry ? a. a perfect melody. b. a rare sense of beauty. c. a splendid imagination. d. a lofty moral purity and seriousness. e. a dedicated idealism. (2) Please list two works as examples of allegory. What is the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with ? a. John Bunyan’s The pilgrim’s Progress and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, etc. b. It is usually concerned with moral, religious, political, symbolic or mythical ideas. 2. Christopher Marlowe (1) Explain the Tamburlaine. a. Tamburlaine is a play about an ambitious and pitiless Tartar conqueror in the fourteenth century whose rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king. b. Tamburlaine is a product of Marlowe’s characteristically Renaissance imagination, fascinated by the earthly magnificence available to men of imaginative power who ave the energy of their convinctions. (2) Explain two greatest achievements of Marlowe. a. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that the perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama. b. Marlowe’s second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama. Such a hero is always individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely the challenge from both gods and men. He embodies Marlowe’s humanistic ideal of human dignity and capacity.3. Wlliam Shakespear (1)Explain the theme of The Merchant of Venice? a.In his romantic comedies, Shakespear takes an optimistic attitude toward love and youth, and the romantic element are brought into full play. The most important play among the comedies is The Merchant of Venice. b.The traditional theme of...
