英语专业英国文学文艺复兴时期名词翻译

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The Elizabethan time: refer to the period in English history from 1485 to 1625.

This "golden age"represented the apogee of the English Renaissance and saw the

flowering of poetry, music and literature. The era is most famous for theatre,

as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of

England's past style of theatre. It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad,

while back at home, the Protestant Reformation became more acceptable to the

people, most certainly after the Spanish Armada was repulsed. It was also the end

of the period when England was a separate realm before its royal union with

Scotland.

Renaissance（文艺复兴）: The Renaissance Movement is a great revolution

carried out in the fourteenth to the mid-seventeenth century Europe. It marks the

transition from the medieval to the modern world in Western Europe. It first started

in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. The word

“Renaissance” means rebirth or revival. In essence, it is a historical period in

which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of

those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe and introduce new ideas that

expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to lift the restriction in all

areas placed by the Roman Catholic Church authorities. Two features of renaissance:

It is a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature. People learned to admire the

Greek and Latin works as models of literary form. It is the keen interest in the

activities of humanity. Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance.

Humanism: A philosophy that places faith in the dignity of humankind and

rejects the medieval perception of the individual as a weak, fallen creature.

"Humanists" typically believe in the perfectibility of human nature and view reason

and education as the means to that end.

The English Reformation: was a series of events in 16th century England by

which the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and

the Catholic Church.

Sonnet a lyric poem comprising 14 rhyming lines of equal length: iambic

pentameters in English, alexandrines in French, hendecasyllables in ltalian. He

rhyme schemes of the sonnet follow two basic patterns.

① The Italian sonnet (also called the Petrarchan sonnet after the most

influential of the Italian sonneteers) comprises an 8-line ‘octave’of two quatrains,

rhymed

abbaabba

, followed by a 6-line ‘sestet’ usually rhymed

cdecde

or

cdcdcd

. The transition from octave to sestet usually coincides with a ‘turn’

( ltalian,

volta

)in the argument or mood of the poem. In a variant form used by the

English poet John Milton, however, the ‘turn’ is delayed to a later position

around the tenth line. Some later poets----notably William Wordsworth----have

employed this feature of the ‘Miltonic sonnet’while relaxing the rhyme scheme

of the octave to

abbaacca

. The Italian pattern has remained the most widely used

in English and other languages.

② The English sonnet (also called the Shakespearean sonnet after its foremost

practitioner) comprises three quatrains and a final couplet, rhyming

ababcdcdefefgg

. An important variant of this is the Spenserian sonnet (introduced

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