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Chapter I ENGLISH LITERATURE
OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
1. The Historical
Background
2.
“
Beowulf
”
the National Epic of
the Anglo-Saxons
3. Minor Anglo-Saxon
Poetry
：
Caedmon and Cynewulf
4.
Anglo-Saxon Prose:
Bede
；
Alfred;
“
The Anglo Saxon
Chronicle
”
; Aelfric
Chapter II ENGLISH
LITERATURE OF THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Section I
English
Literature from the Mid-11th Century to the
Mid-14th
1. The Background: Political and Social
2.
Folk Literature and Religious Literature from the
Mid-11th to the Mid-14th
Century
3.
Early Alliterative and Metrical Romances in the
12th
，
13th and
Early 14th
Centuries
Section II
English Literature of the Second Half
of the 14th Century
1. The
Background
：
Political and
Social
2. John Wycliffe
；
John
Gower
；
William Langland
3.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Section
III
English Literature of
the Fifteenth Century
1. The
Background
：
Political and
Social
2. The English and Scottish Popular
Ballads:
“
Robin Hood
Ballads
”
3. Early
English Drama: Folk Drama; the Mystery Plays;
The Miracle Plays; the
Morality Plays
4.
The
English
Chaucerians;
Early
Scottish
Poetry
and
the
Scottish
Chaucerians
5. English Prose of the
15th Century: Sir Thomas Malory and His
d'Arthur
Chapter
III ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE RENAISSANCE
Section I
The Historical
Background
：
Economic
，
Political and Cultural
1. The
Renaissance in Europe
2. Stages and Trends of
English Literature of the Renaissance
Section II
English Literature of the Early 16th
Century
1 The Oxford Reformers; Thomas More
2.
Court Poetry: Skelton; Wyatt and Surrey
3.
Morality Plays and Interludes of the 16th
Century
：
David Lyndsay; John Heywood
Section III
English Literature of the Second Half
of the 16th Century.
1. Court
Poetry
：
Philip Sidney; Edmund
Spenser
2. Prose Fiction:
Lyly
，
Lodge
，
Greene
，
Sidney
，
Nashe
，
Deloney
3.
Pre-Shakespearean
Drama:
English
Drama
under
Classical
I
nfluence
；
University Wits
：
Lyly
，
Peele
，
Lodge
，
Nashe
，
Greene
，
Kyd and Marlowe
Section IV
Shakespeare
1. Shakespeare's Life and
Literary Career
2. Shakespeare's Poems and
Sonnets
3. Early Period of Shakespeare's
Plays
：
History
Plays
(
Richard
III
”
，
“
Henry
IV
”
，
Parts 1 and 2
，
“
Henry V
”
< br>)
；
Early Tragedies
(
“
Romeo
and
Juliet
”
，
“
Julius Caesar
”
)
；
Comedies (
“
The
Merchant of Venice
”
，
< br>“
Much
Ado about
Nothing
”
，
“
As You Like It
”<
/p>
，
“
Twelfth
Night
”
)
4. Mature
Period of Shakespeare's Plays. Tragedies(
“
Hamlet
”
，
“
Othello
”
，
“
King
Lear
”
，
“
Macbeth
”
，
“
Antony and
Cleopatra
”
，
“
Coriolanus
”
，
“
Timon
of Athens
”
)
，
Tragi-Comedies
(
“
Measure for Measure
”
，
“
All's Well
that Ends
Well
”
，
“
Troilus and
Cressida
”
)
5. Last Period
of Shakespeare's Dramatic Career
：
“
Pericles
”
，<
/p>
“
Cymbeline
”
，
“
The Winter's
Tale
”
，
“
The
Tempest
”
，
“
Pericle
”
，
“
Henry
VIII
”
6.
General
Comments
on
Shakespeare
：
Shakespeare's
Progressive
Significance and
Limitations
；
His Indebtedness
to the English Dramatic
Tradition
；
His
Cha
racterCreations
；
His
Plot
Construction
；
His
Mastery
of
Language
；
His
Literary Influence
Section V
English Literature of the First Quarter
of the 17th Century
1. Drama of Shakespeare's
Contemporaries: Ben Jonson
，
C
hapman
，
Dekker
，
Thomas Heywood
，
Beaumont and Fletcher
2. The Decline
of Drama in Early 17th-Century England up to the
Closing of
the
Theatres
in
London
in
1642
：
Marston
，
Tourneur
，
Webster
，
Ford
，
Middleton
，
Massinger
，
Shirley
3. Francis Bacon
4.
The King James Bible and Other Prose in Early 17th
Century
5. English Non-Dramatic Poetry in the
First Thirty Years of the 17th Century:
John Donne
，
Ben Jonson
，
the
Spenserians
Chapter IV
ENGLISH LITERATURE DURING THE ENGLISH BOURGEOIS
REVOLUTION
AND THE RESTORATION
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Chapter V
EICHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE
Section I The Historical Background:
Political and Ideological.
1. Political
Background from the Revolution of 1688 to the End
of the
18th Century.
2.
The Enlightenment in England and Its Effect upon
English
Literature of the 18th Century.
Section II English Literature in Early
18th Century.
1. Neo-Classicism in
English Literature in Early 18th Century:
Alexander Pope.
2. Periodical
Literature in Early 18th-Century England: Addison
and
Steele.
3. Daniel
Defoe.
4. Jonathan Swift.
Section III English Prose
Fiction in the Middle and Last Decades of the 18th
Century.
1. Richardson.
2. Fielding.
3. Smollett.
4. Sterne and Goldsmith.
5.
Gothic Romances and Other Works of Fiction near
the End of the
18th Century.
Section IV English Drama in
the 18th Century.
1. English
Drama in the Early and Middle Decades of the 18th
Century.
2. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan.
Section
V Neo-Classicism and Pre-Romanticism in English
Poetry and
Prose in the Middle and Last
Decades of the 18th Century.
1. Samuel
Johnson
；
James Bo
swell
；
Gibbon
；
Burke.
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