英美文学选读 习题1

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[1] We can easily find in Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.

A naturalism

B romanticism

C transcendentalism

D cubism

答：

答案： A

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[2] Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.

答：

答案：survival|fittest|fate|mysterious |supernatural|force|impotent|Fate

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[3] 1. “When the stars threw down their spears,

And water’d heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”

Questions:

A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza?

B. Whom does the “he”refer to?

C. What does the “Lamb”symbolize?

答：

答案：William Blake;God; peace and purity

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[4] What are the characteristics of Byron's works?

答：The only major languag

答案：they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novelty of oriental scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.

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[5] Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

答：

答案：orphan|child|poor|plain|governess|middle class |working|woman

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[6] ____ is Hemingway’s firt true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”.

A A. For Whom the Bell Tolls

B B. The Old Man and the Sea

C C. The Sun Also Rises

D D. A Farewell to Arms

答：

答案： C

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[7]

“‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: —it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal —as we are!’”

A. Identify the author and the work.

B. Summarize the speaker’s meaning.

答：

答案：Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane doesn't want to become his accessory. Mr. Rochester doesn't treat her as an equal being.

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[8]

What is expressionism?

答：

答案：It is a reaction against materialism, describes individual's internal state of mind. the representatives are August Strinberg,Frank Wedeking and Eugene O'Neill.

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[9]

All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT

________.

A “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

B “An Evening Walk”

C “Tinter Abbey”

D “The Solitary Reaper”

答：

答案： D

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[10] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken.

B. What is this passage describing?

答：

答案：Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters' marriage

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[11] Do you know something about "Yoknapatawpha County?" What are the characteristics of Faulkner's fiction?

答：

答案：Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkner's own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkner's fiction an allegory or a parable of the old south. Characteristics: representation of the Old South; his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart.

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[12] “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summer’s lease hath all too short a date,”the above beautiful sonnet was written by ______.

A John Donne

B John Milton

C William Shakespeare

D Francis Bacon

答：

答案： C

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[13]

“Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”

Questions:

A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?

B. What does the word “this”in the last line refer to?

C. What idea do the quoted lines express?

答：

答案：Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, permance of poetry

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[14] What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?

答：

答案： a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.

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[15] All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.

A England was the “workshop of the world”.

B The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problem

C Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world

D Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further

答：

答案： D

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[16] what is Bacon's Of Studies about?

答：

答案：the aims, ways and infulence of studies

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[17]

The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.

A. Songs of Innocence &n

A Songs of Innocence

B Songs of Experience

C Poetical Sketches

D Lyrical Ballads

答：

答案： A

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[18]

Please comment on Alexander Pope’s literary achievements.

答：

答案： An Essay on Criticism follows the neoclassicist tradition. The Rape of the Lock mocks the epic. He uses heroic couplet.

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[19]

The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”belongs to ______.

A Wordsworth

B Coleridge

C Shelley

D Blake

答：

答案： A

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[20] ______ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.

A Adonais

B Don Juan

C Prometheus Unbound

D The Revolt of Islam

答：

答案： B

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[21] _____ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.

A A. The American

B B. The Europeans

C C. Daisy Miller

D D. The Portrait of a Lady

答：

答案： A

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[22] Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ and _____ centuries.

A 14th; mid-17th

B 16th; mid-17th

C 14th; mid-18th

D 16th; mid-19th

答：

答案： A

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[23] The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic period is _________.

A prose

B drama

C novel

D poetry

答：

答案： D

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[24] Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.

A the middle - class

B the lower class

C the upper - middle - class

D the upper - class

答：

答案： A

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[25] 7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.

A precison

B directness

C flexibility

D satire

答：

答案： D

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[26]

Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.

A The Professor

B Shirley

C Villette

D Jane Eyre

答：

答案： D

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[27] In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, ____, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul to the devil in order to save starving peasants.

A A. The Land of Heart’s Desire

B B. The Shadowy Waters

C C. The Countess Cathleen

D D. Purgatory

答：

答案： C

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[28] In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.

A Oliver Twist

B Bleak house

C David Copperfield

D Great Expectations

答：

答案： A

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[29] ______ , which bears a strong resemblance to The Waste Land is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems.

A “Gerontion”

B The Hollow Men

C “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

D The Cocktail Party

答：

答案： B

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[30] The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.

A Faulkner

B Dreiser

C . James

D Whitman

答：

答案： D

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[31]

While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life”of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world”of man.

A William Howells

B Henry James

C Bret Harte

D Hamlin Garland

答：

答案： B

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[32]

The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is__________.

A insignificant

B evil

C divine

D silly

答：

答案： C

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[33] ____ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, and English poetry.

A A. Charles Lamb

B B. Jane Austen

C C. Walter Scott

D D. William Hazlitt

答：

答案： D

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[34]

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”the quoted line comes from ________.

A Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”

B Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

C John Milton’s Paradise Lost

D John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

答：

答案： A

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[35] “Man shall find grace.”But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the key stone of _______ creed.

A Milton’s

B Jonathan Swift’s

C Henry Fielding’s

D Samual Johnson’s

答案： A

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[36] Jonathan Swift’s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.

A Gulliver’s Travels

B The Battle of the Books

C “A Modest Proposal”

D A Tale of a Tub

答：

答案： C

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[37]

John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A Areopagitica

B Paradise Lost

C Lycidas

D Samson Agonistes

答：

答案： B

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[38]

Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?

A The Book of Loss is his masterpiece.

B Childhood is central to Blake’s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

C Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.

D Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.

答：

答案： C

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[39] As he is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”, _____ famous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro”would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.

A T. S. Eliot’s

B Robert Frost’s

C Ezra Pound’s

D Wallace Stevens’

答：

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[40] “They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare…”these sentences are taken from ___

A A. Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor

B B. William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily

C C. Charles Dickens’Dombey and Son

D D. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

答：

答案： B

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[41] Statement ____ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.

A Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction

B Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century

C Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural

D The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance

答：

答案： B

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[42] ______ shows the contrast between the performance of art and the transience of human passion.

A Ode to the West Wind

B Ode to a Nightgale

C Ode to Psyche

D Ode on a Grecian Urn

答：

答案： D

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[43] Shelley’s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.

A “Ode to Liberty”

B “Ode to Naples”

C “Ode to the West Wind”

D “Men of England”

答：

答案： D

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[44]

D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.

A The Rainbow

B Women in Love

C Sons and Lovers

D Lady Chatterley’s Lover

答：

答案： C

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[45] In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

A prose

B novel

C drama

D poetry

答：

答案： B

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[46] In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?

A The Green Hills of Africa

B The Snows of Kilimanjaro

C To Have and Have Not

D Death in the Afternoon

答：

答案： C

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[47]

Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.

A Walt Whitman

B Robert Frost

C Ezra Pound

D T. S. Eliot

答：

答案： B

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[48] Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,”which shows a brilliant insight into

New England character and the background that formed it.

A North of Boston

B A Boy’s Will

C A Witness Tree

D A Further Range

答：

答案： A

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[49] Jane Austen’s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A Mansfield Park

B Sense and Sensibility

C Pride and Prejudice

D Sons and Lovers

答：

答案： B

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[50]

Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.

A Wordsworth

B Shelly

C Keats

D Wialliam Blake

答：

答案： A

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[51] The Rivals and _____ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.

A The School for Scandal

B The Duenna

C Widower’s Houses

D The Doctor’s Dilemma

答：

答案： A

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[52] The three trilogies of ______’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.

A John Galsworthy

B Arnold Bennet

C James Joyce

D H. G. Wells 答：

答案： A

英美文学选读-英国-新古典主义时期-练习题汇总

1. The 18th-century England is known as ( ) (浙0710) A. the Age of Puritanism B. the Age of Reason C. the Era of Capitalism D. the Age of Glory 2. English Enlighteners in the 18th century held ________ as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations. （一）1 A. property B. education C. emotion D. reason 3. In the Enlightenment Movement, the progressive representatives intended ______. (浙0810) A. to call the people to fight against poverty and hardship B. to tell people to economize and to accumulate wealth C. to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas D. to instruct people to obtain their present social status through hard work 4. As to education, the enlighteners thought that ______. （浙0310） A. human beings were limited, dualistic, imperfect, and not capable of rationality and perfection through education. B. universal education was unnecessary. C. if the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society. D. most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education. 5. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the people? ( ) (浙0710) A. Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education. B. If the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society. C. Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary. D. Because human beings were not capable of rationality and perfection through education. 6. About reason , the enlighteners thought _____. （浙0210） A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities B. reason couldn't lead to truth and justice C. superstition was above reason and rationality D. equality and science is contrary to reason and rationality 7. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about the tendency of ( ) A. realism B. puritanism C. neoclassicism D. romanticism 8. Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true? A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the

英美文学选读 傲慢与偏见

英 美 文 学 选 读 论 文 《傲慢与偏见》的女性 叙事视角解读 姓名： 班级： 学号：

《傲慢与偏见》的女性叙事视角解读 摘要: 奥斯丁在《傲慢与偏见》中，通过在全知视角下具有限制性的叙述模式向我们展示了灰姑娘的浪漫爱情故事，描绘出作者所处时代的社会道德风貌，表达了作者的女性抗争意识及对当时社会婚姻观的批判。 关键词: 全知视角;有限视角 在奥斯丁的著作中，《傲慢与偏见》一直深受读者的喜爱，并经受住了时间的考验，成为文学史上不休的名著。剖析其原因，发现这与奥斯丁高超的叙事技巧是分不开的。自小说发表以来，其叙述技巧引起了广泛的评论，纵观其评论，发现对其独特的女性视角分析还是不够。在这部小说中，奥斯丁颠覆了以往男权统治下的话语权，采用了全知视角下，从女性的有限视角展示故事，从女性的角度来描写生活，并首次让小说中的女性形象第一次成为真正意义上的主角，让女性有了话语权。因而，从女性视角这一角度对小说进行解读，对于理解和把握作品具有重要的意义。申丹曾指出：叙事者的性别不同，往往会对叙事模式及其意义产生影响。把性别和视角结合在一起的女性视角是指从性别入手来审视人类的文化遗产和文化创造的一种批评观念和批评角度。本文将从女性叙事视角对小说进行解读，发掘其对于展现女性意识的意义。 叙事视角，在文学作品中是指作品叙述者或者人物从什么角度观

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英美文学选读要点总结精心整理(只考26位作家) [英国』Chapter1 The Renaissance period（14世纪至十七世纪中叶）文艺复兴 1. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.人文主义是文艺复兴的核心。 2. the Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the measure of all things.人文主义作为文艺复兴的起源是因为古希腊罗马文明的基础是以“人”为中心，人是万物之灵。 3. Renaissance humanists found in then classics a justification to exalt human nature and came to see that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection, and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise but to question, explore, and enjoy.人文主义者们却从古代文化遗产中找到充足的论据，来赞美人性，并开始注意到人类是崇高的生命，人可以不断发展完善自己，而且世界是属于他们的，供他们怀疑，探索以及享受。 4. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.托马斯.摩尔，克利斯朵夫.马洛和威廉.莎士比亚是英国人文主义的代表。 5. Wyatt introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.怀亚特将彼特拉克的十四行诗引进英国。 6. The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.英国文艺复兴初期只是一个学习模仿与同化的阶段。 7. The goals of humanistic poetry are: skillful handling of conventions, force of language, and, above all, the development of a rhetorical plan in which meter, rhyme, scheme, imagery and argument should all be combined to frame the emotional theme and throw it into high relief.人文主义诗歌的主要目标是对传统习俗的熟练运用，语言的力度与气概，而最重要的是发展了修辞模式，即将格律，韵脚（式），组织结构，意象（比喻，描述）与议论都结合起来勾画出情感主题，并将其极为鲜明生动的表现出来。 8. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.文艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家有克利斯朵夫.马洛，威廉.莎士比亚与本.约翰逊。 9. Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the first important English essayist.费兰西斯.培根是英国历史上最重要的散文家。(III)William Shakespeare威廉.莎士比亚 17. The first period of his dramatic career, he wrote five history plays: Henry VI, Parts I, II, and III, Richard III, and Titus Andronicus; and four comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and Love’s Labour’s Lost.在他戏剧创作生涯的第一个阶段，他创作了五部历史剧：《亨利六世》，《理查三世》，《泰托斯.安东尼》以及四部喜剧：《错误的戏剧》，《维洛那二绅士》，《驯悍记》和《爱的徒劳》。 18. In the second period, he wrote five histories: Richard II, King John, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V; six comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; and two tragedies: Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar.在第二阶段，他写了五部历史剧：《理查三世》，《约翰王》，《亨利四世》，《亨利五世》以及六部喜剧《仲夏夜之梦》，《威尼斯商人》，《无事生非》，《皆大欢喜》，《第十二夜》，《温莎的风流娘儿们》，还有两部悲剧：《罗密欧与朱丽叶》和《裘利斯.凯撒》。 19. Shakespeare’s third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies. The tragedies of this period are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, and Coriolanus. The two comedies are All’s Well That Ends and Measure for Measure.第三阶段诞生了莎翁最伟大的悲剧和他自称的黑色喜剧（或悲喜剧），悲剧有：《哈姆雷特》，《奥赛罗》，《李尔王》《麦克白》《安东尼与克利奥佩特拉》《特罗伊勒斯与克利西达》及《克里奥拉那斯》。两部喜剧是《终成眷属》和《一报还一报》。 20. The last period of Shakespeare’s work includes his principle romantic tragicomedies: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest; and his two plays: Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.最后一个时期的作品主要有浪漫悲喜剧：《伯里克利》《辛白林》《冬天的故事》与《暴风雨》。他最后两部剧是《亨利八世》与《鲁克里斯受辱记》。21. Shakespeare’s sonnets are the only direct expression of the poet’s own feelings.这些十四行诗都是莎翁直抒胸臆的成果。 22. Shakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.莎翁的历史剧都有这样一个主题：在一个强大英明的君主统领下的国家，统一是非常必要的。 23. In his romantic comedies, Shakespeare takes an optimistic attitude toward love and youth, and the romantic elements are