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ContentsChapter ⅠENGLISH LITERATURE OF THEANGLO-SAXON PERIOD1

1．The Historical Background1

2．“Beowulf”the National Epic of the Anglo-Saxons3

3．Minor Anglo-Saxon Poetry Caedmon and Cynewulf11

4．Anglo-Saxon Prose: Bede; Alfred; “The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”; Aelfric16

Chapter ⅡENGLISH LITERATURE OFTHE LATE MIDDLE AGESSection ⅠEnglish Literature from the Mid-11th Century tothe Mid-14th26

1．The Background: Political and Social26

2．Folk Literature and Religious Literature from theMid-11th to the Mid-14th Century28

3．Early Alliterative and Metrical Romances in the 12th,13th and Early 14th Centuries33

Section ⅡEnglish Literature of the Second Half of the 14thCentury39

1The Background: Political and Social39

2John Wycliffe; John Gower; William Langland42

3Geoffrey Chaucer49

1．The Background: Political and Social61

Section ⅢEnglish Literature of the Fifteenth Century61

2．The English and Scottish Popular Ballads: “RobinHood Ballads”63

3．Early English Drama: Folk Drama; The MysteryPlays; The Miracle Plays; The Morality Plays72

4．The English Chaucerians; Early Scottish Poetry andthe Scottish Chaucerians77

5．English Prose of the 15th Century: Sir Thomas Maloryand His “Le Morte d Arthur”81

Chapter ⅢENGLISH LITERATURE OFTHE RENAISSANCESection ⅠThe Historical Background: Economic, Politi-cal and Cultural85

1．The Renaissance in Europe85

2．Stages and Trends of English Literature of the Renais-sance89

Section ⅡEnglish Literature of the Early 16th Century91

1．The Oxfofd Reformers; Thomas More91

2．Court Poetry: Skelton; Wyatt and Surrey97

3．Morality Plays and Interludes of the 16th Century:David Lyndsay; John Heywood102

Section ⅢEnglish Literature of the Second Half of the 16thCentury105

1．Court Poetry: Philip Sidney; Edmund Spenser105

2．Prose Fiction: Lyly, Lodge, Greene, Sidney, Nashe,Deloney113

3．Pre-Shakespearean Drama: English Drama underClassical Influence; University Wits: Lyly, Peele,Lodge, Nashe, Greene, Kyd and Marlowe121

1．Shakespeare s Life and Literary Career133

Section ⅣShakespeare133

2．Shakespeare s Poems and Sonnets134

3．Early Period of Shakespeare s Plays: History Plays(“Richard Ⅲ”, “Henry Ⅳ”, Parts 1 and 2, “HenryⅤ”);138

Early Tragedies(“Romeo and Juliet”, “JuliusCaesar”); Comedies(“The Merchant of Venice”,“Much Ado about Nothing”, “As You Like It”,“Twelfth Night”)138

4．Mature Period of Shakespeare s Plays. Tragedies(“Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear”,“Macbeth”,“Antony and Cleopatra”, “Coriolanus”, “Timon ofAthens”)138

Tragi-Comedies(“Measure for Measure”,“All s Well that Ends Well”, “Troilus and Cressida”)150

5．Last Period of Shakespeare s Dramatic Career: “Peri-cles”, “Cymbeline”, “The Winter s Tale”, “TheTempest”, “pericle”, “Henry Ⅷ”167

6．General Comments on Shakespeare:Shakespeare sProgressive Significance and Limitations;167

His Indebted-ness to the English Dramatic Tradition; His Character-Creations; His Plot Construction; His Mastery ofLanguage; His Literary Influence170

Section ⅤEnglish Literature of the First Quarter of the17th Century182

1．Drama of Shakespeare s Contemporaries: Ben Jonson,Chapman, Dekker, Thomas Heywood, Beaumont andFletcher182

2．The Decline of Drama in Early 17th-Century Englandup to the Closing of the Theatres in London in 1642:Marston, Tourneur, Webster, Ford, Middleton, Mass-inger, Shirley197

3．Francis Bacon209

4．The King James Bible and Other Prose in Early 17thCentury218

5．English Non-Dramatic.,Poetry in the First ThirtyYears of the 17th Century: John Donne, Ben Jonson,the Spenserians221

1．The Political Background from the Eve of the EnglishBourgeois Revolution to the Downfall of StuartAbsolutism(1625-1688)231

Chapter ⅣENGLISH LITERATURE DURING THE ENGLISHBOURGEOIS REVOLUTION AND THE RESTORATIONSection ⅠThe Historical Background: Political andIdeological231

2．The Ideological Background of English Literature in the17th Century234

to 1660238

1．Minor English Poets and Prose Writers of the Period238

2．The Pamphlet Literature of the Levellers and theDiggers: John Lilburne and Gerrard Winstanley248

Section ⅢJohn Milton262

1．Milton s Life and Literary Career262

2．Milton s Early Works265

3．The Middle Period of Milton s Literary Career: HisProse and His Sonnets270

4．“Paradise Lost”, “Paradise Regained” and “SamsonAgonistes”286

Section ⅣEnglish Literature of the Restoration302

1．John Bunyan302

2．John Dryden308

3．The English Drama of the Restoration316

4．Minor English Poetry and Prose of the Restoration:Samuel Butler s “Hudibras” and the Diaries of SamuelPepys and John Evelyn323

Section ⅡMinor Currents of English Literature from1625