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1.2.1 Anglo-Saxon Prose Writing........................................................................193
1.2.2 Anglo-Saxon Epic Poetry: Beowulf............................................................194
1.2.3 Anglo-Saxon Lyric Poetry: the Elegies.......................................................195
1.2.4 Anglo-Saxon Religious Poetry....................................................................195
1.3 The Middle Ages.....................................................................................................196
1.3.1 Historical and Social Background.............................................................196
1.3.2 Cultural and Literary Background............................................................199
1.4 Medieval Literature................................................................................................201
1.4.1 The Medieval Verse Romance....................................................................201
1.4.2 William Langland (ca. 1332-ca. 1386).......................................................203
1.4.3 Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. 1343-1400).............................................................203
1.4.4 John Gower (ca. 1330-1408)......................................................................205
1.4.5 English and Scottish...................................................................................206
1.4.6 The Medieval Ballad...................................................................................208
1.4.7 Medieval Prose Writing..............................................................................210
1.4.8 The Origins of English Drama...................................................................212
Chapter 2The Renaissance: The Elizabethan Age
2.1 The English Renaissance........................................................................................214
2.1.1 Historical and Social Background.............................................................214
2.1.2 Cultural and Literary Background............................................................216
2.2 Renaissance Poetry.................................................................................................219
2.2.1 Early Tudor Poetry......................................................................................219
2.2.2 Courtly Poets...............................................................................................220
2.2.3 Philip Sydney (1554-1586).........................................................................221
2.2.4 William Shakespeare’s Poetry....................................................................222
2.2.5 Edmund Spencer (1552-1599)...................................................................224
2.3 Elizabethan Drama.................................................................................................227
2.3.1 The Elizabethan Theatre...........................................................................227
2.3.2 Elizabethan Early Drama............................................................................229
2.3.3 Elizabethan Comedy...................................................................................230
2.3.4 Elizabethan Tragedy: Thomas Kyd (ca. 1558-ca. 1594)............................231
2.3.5 Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)............................................................231
2.4 William Shakespeare (1564-1616).........................................................................234
2.4.1 Life, General Features and Overview of Works.........................................234
2.4.2 Shakespeare’s Histories..............................................................................237
2.4.3 Shakespeare’s Comedies............................................................................238
2.4.4 Shakespeare’s Tragedies.............................................................................242
2.4.5 Shakespeare’s Romances............................................................................250
2.5 Sixteenth Century Prose Writing...........................................................................253
2.5.1 Humanism: Thomas More (1478-1535)....................................................253
2.5.2 Religious Prose Writing: William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale..............253
2.5.3 Educational Prose Writing: Roger Ascham, Thomas Elyot and
Thomas Hoby..............................................................................................254
2.5.4 Elizabethan Prose Fiction...........................................................................255
2.5.5 Travel Writing: Samuel Purchas and Walter Raleigh................................259