Part 1. Old and medieval
Beowulf 貝爾武甫(the national epic of the English people) stricking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements.
William Langland 威廉。蘭格倫 Piers the Plowman耕者皮爾斯
Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利•喬叟1340-1400 長詩：The House of Fame聲譽之堂;Troilus and Criseyde特羅勒斯與克麗西德
小說：Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集----英國文學現實主義第一部杰作
（他是最早有人文主義思想的作家，現實主義文學的奠基人）
his contribution to English poetry: introduced from france the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter (the heroic couplet), is the first great poet who wrote in the English language. Who making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.
Part 2. The English renaissance
Thomas More托馬斯。莫爾 Utopia烏托幫
Philip Sidney菲力普。錫德尼 Astrophel and Stella Apology for Poetry詩辯
Edmond Spenser埃德蒙。斯賓塞 The Faerie Queene 仙后 The Shepherds’s Calender 牧羊人日歷
Francis Bacon培根1561-1626 Advancement of Learning學術的進展;Novum Organum新工具;New Atlantic新大西島;Essays論文集（Of Studies論學習;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self）
The founder of English materialist philosophy
Christopher Marlowe克里斯托夫。馬洛 Tamburlaine鐵木耳大帝 Dr.Faustus浮士德的悲劇 The Jew of Malta馬耳他的*人 The Passionate Shepherd多情的牧羊人致情人
William Shakespeare莎士比亞1564-1616 The Tempest暴風風雨;The Two Gentlemen of Veronaz維羅納二紳士;The Mercy Wives of Windsor溫莎的風流婦人;Measure for Measure惡有惡報;The Comedy of Errors錯中錯;Much Ado about Nothing無事自擾;Love’s Labour’s Lost空愛一場;A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之夢;The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人;As You Like It如愿;The Taming of the Shrew馴悍記;All’s Well That Ends Well皆大歡喜;Twelfth Night第十二夜;The Winter’s Tale冬天的故事;The Life and Death of King John/Richard the Second/Henry the Fifth/Richard the Third約翰王/理查二世/亨利五世/理查三世;The First/Second Part of King Henry the Fourth亨利四世（上、下）;The First/Second/Third Part of King Henry the Sixth亨利六世（上、中、下）;The Life of King Henry the Eighth亨利八世；Troilus and Cressida脫愛勒斯與克萊西達;The Tragedy of Coriolanus考利歐雷諾斯;Titus Andronicus泰特斯•安莊尼克斯;Romeo and Julet羅密歐與朱麗葉；Timon of Athens雅典的泰門;The Life and Death of Julius Caesar;朱利阿斯•凱撒；The Tragedy of Macbeth麥克白;The Tragedy of Hamlet哈姆雷特/王子復仇記;King Lear李爾王;Othello奧塞羅;Antony and Cleopatra安東尼與克利歐佩特拉;Cymbeline辛白林;Pericles波里克利斯;Venus and Adonis維諾斯•阿都尼斯;Lucrece露克利斯;The Sonnets十四行詩
The Great Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之夢;The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人;As You Like It如愿;;Twelfth Night第十二夜;
The Great Tragedies: The Tragedy of Hamlet哈姆雷特/王子復仇記; Othello奧塞羅King Lear李爾王; The Tragedy of Macbeth麥克白;
The Later Comedies(romances): Pericles波里克利斯; Cymbeline辛白林; The Winter’s Tale冬天的故事; The Tempest暴風風雨;
Beowulf 貝爾武甫(the national epic of the English people) stricking feature: alliteration, metaphors and understatements.
William Langland 威廉。蘭格倫 Piers the Plowman耕者皮爾斯
Geoffrey Chaucer杰佛利•喬叟1340-1400 長詩：The House of Fame聲譽之堂;Troilus and Criseyde特羅勒斯與克麗西德
小說：Canterbury Tales坎特伯雷故事集----英國文學現實主義第一部杰作
（他是最早有人文主義思想的作家，現實主義文學的奠基人）
his contribution to English poetry: introduced from france the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter (the heroic couplet), is the first great poet who wrote in the English language. Who making the dialect of London the standard for the modern English speech.
Part 2. The English renaissance
Thomas More托馬斯。莫爾 Utopia烏托幫
Philip Sidney菲力普。錫德尼 Astrophel and Stella Apology for Poetry詩辯
Edmond Spenser埃德蒙。斯賓塞 The Faerie Queene 仙后 The Shepherds’s Calender 牧羊人日歷
Francis Bacon培根1561-1626 Advancement of Learning學術的進展;Novum Organum新工具;New Atlantic新大西島;Essays論文集（Of Studies論學習;Of Wisdom for a Man’s Self）
The founder of English materialist philosophy
Christopher Marlowe克里斯托夫。馬洛 Tamburlaine鐵木耳大帝 Dr.Faustus浮士德的悲劇 The Jew of Malta馬耳他的*人 The Passionate Shepherd多情的牧羊人致情人
William Shakespeare莎士比亞1564-1616 The Tempest暴風風雨;The Two Gentlemen of Veronaz維羅納二紳士;The Mercy Wives of Windsor溫莎的風流婦人;Measure for Measure惡有惡報;The Comedy of Errors錯中錯;Much Ado about Nothing無事自擾;Love’s Labour’s Lost空愛一場;A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之夢;The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人;As You Like It如愿;The Taming of the Shrew馴悍記;All’s Well That Ends Well皆大歡喜;Twelfth Night第十二夜;The Winter’s Tale冬天的故事;The Life and Death of King John/Richard the Second/Henry the Fifth/Richard the Third約翰王/理查二世/亨利五世/理查三世;The First/Second Part of King Henry the Fourth亨利四世（上、下）;The First/Second/Third Part of King Henry the Sixth亨利六世（上、中、下）;The Life of King Henry the Eighth亨利八世；Troilus and Cressida脫愛勒斯與克萊西達;The Tragedy of Coriolanus考利歐雷諾斯;Titus Andronicus泰特斯•安莊尼克斯;Romeo and Julet羅密歐與朱麗葉；Timon of Athens雅典的泰門;The Life and Death of Julius Caesar;朱利阿斯•凱撒；The Tragedy of Macbeth麥克白;The Tragedy of Hamlet哈姆雷特/王子復仇記;King Lear李爾王;Othello奧塞羅;Antony and Cleopatra安東尼與克利歐佩特拉;Cymbeline辛白林;Pericles波里克利斯;Venus and Adonis維諾斯•阿都尼斯;Lucrece露克利斯;The Sonnets十四行詩
The Great Comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏夜之夢;The Merchant of Venice威尼斯商人;As You Like It如愿;;Twelfth Night第十二夜;
The Great Tragedies: The Tragedy of Hamlet哈姆雷特/王子復仇記; Othello奧塞羅King Lear李爾王; The Tragedy of Macbeth麥克白;
The Later Comedies(romances): Pericles波里克利斯; Cymbeline辛白林; The Winter’s Tale冬天的故事; The Tempest暴風風雨;