判断题 英国文学.doc

The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada. T The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise. F Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches. F Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues. T Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic. T Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage. F Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time. T Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity. F English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose. F Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society. F English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole. F The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton. F The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama. F Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one. F The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is written in heroic couplets. F The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced. F Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were