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. Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. 18. Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme) 19. To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often bines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文體的 ) and tragic with the ic. 20. Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity(活潑、快活 ) and wealth of (大量的 ) action”. 21. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a political movement in a religious guise. 22. Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches. 23. Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage. 24. Sir Philip Sidney is wellknown as a poet and dramatist. 25. Carl Marx mented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital. 26. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry. 27. The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ. 28. Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English edy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy. 29. Both the gentlemen and the mon people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. 30. After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623. 31. From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time. 32. In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded. 33. King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom. 34. Coming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art. 35. Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature. 36. Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity. 37. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose. 38. There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind. 39. Ben Johnson’s edies are “edies of humors” and every character in his edies personifies a definite “humor”. 40. In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “l(fā)iterary king” of his time. Key to the True/False statements: 1. T 2. T 3. T 4. F. (a political movement in a religious guise) 5. F. (the Latin Bible) 6. T 7. F (Sidney) 8. T 9. T 10. T 11. T 12. T 13. F ( Book Two) 14. T 15. T 16. T 17. T 18. F 19. T 20. T 21. T 22. F (Latin Bible) 23. F (a conversation) 24. F (poet and critic of poetry) 25. F 26. F(darma) 27. T 28. T 29. T 30. T 31. T 32. T 33. F (Macbeth) 34. F (Hamlet) 35. F (realism) 36. F(decline) 37. F (not an age of prose) 38. T 39. F (ordinary people were) 40. T Ⅴ . Questions on the English Renaissance 1. Comment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff. 2. Comment on the character of Hamlet. 3. What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama? 4. Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career. 5. Comment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement. 6. Comment on The Faerie Queene.