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急需关于英国文学史的一些问题

请帮我找一些英国文学史上关于英国斯图亚特王室时期的戏剧，poetry-Donne to Milton,文艺复兴，英国18世纪文学，小说的兴起，还有浪漫主义时期的资料。非常感谢。

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英国的house of stuart统治时期为1603-1714，这个时期实际上是莎士比亚的余热期，文学史上常把莎翁的最后几部历史剧归到斯图加特时期，这些历史剧包括：《新白林》，《亨利八世》，《亨利四世》，《理查德三世》等等。由于莎翁的第二创作期正处于英国王室剧变，即由于原先的亨利家族没有男性血脉，则改由亨利7世的女儿继承王位，史称斯图加特王朝的开始。而有些文学评论家也常把莎翁第二创作期的作品作为斯图加特王朝时期的戏剧，这些戏剧包括：哈姆莱特》（1601）、《奥瑟罗》（1604）、《李尔王》（1606）、《麦克白》（1606）和《雅典的泰门》（1607）。

Donne, John
leading English poet of the Metaphysical school and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, London (1621–31). Donne is often considered the greatest love poet in the English language. He is also noted for his religious verse and treatises and for his sermons, which rank among the best of the 17th century.

John Milton
Milton is best known for Paradise Lost, widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English. Together with Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, it confirms Milton's reputation as one of the greatest English poets. In his prose works Milton advocated the abolition of the Church of England and the execution of King Charles I. From the beginning of the English Civil Wars in 1642 to long after the restoration of Charles II as king in 1660, he espoused in all his works a political philosophy that opposed tyranny and state-sanctioned religion. His influence extended not only through the civil wars and interregnum but also to the American and French revolutions. In his works on theology, he valued liberty of conscience, the paramount importance of Scripture as a guide in matters of faith, and religious toleration toward dissidents. As a civil servant, Milton became the voice of the English Commonwealth after 1649 through his handling of its international correspondence and his defense of the government against polemical attacks from abroad.

The Renaissance period: 1550–1660
In a tradition of literature remarkable for its exacting and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan and early Stuart periods have been said to represent the most brilliant century of all. (The reign of Elizabeth I began in 1558 and ended with her death in 1603; she was succeeded by the Stuart king James VI of Scotland, who took the title James I of England as well. English literature of his reign as James I, from 1603 to 1625, is properly called Jacobean.) These years produced a gallery of authors of genius, some of whom have never been surpassed, and conferred on scores of lesser talents the enviable ability to write with fluency, imagination, and verve. From one point of view, this sudden renaissance looks radiant, confident, heroic—and belated, but all the more dazzling for its belatedness. Yet, from another point of view, this was a time of unusually traumatic strain, in which English society underwent massive disruptions that transformed it on every front and decisively affected the life of every individual. In the brief, intense moment in which England assimilated the European Renaissance, the circumstances that made the assimilation possible were already disintegrating and calling into question the newly won certainties, as well as the older truths that they were dislodging. This doubleness, of new possibilities and new doubts simultaneously apprehended, gives the literature its unrivaled intensity.

The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras

Self-consciousness was the quality that John Stuart Mill identified, in 1838, as “the daemon of the men of genius of our time.” Introspection was inevitable in the literature of an immediately Post-Romantic period, and the age itself was as prone to self-analysis as were its individual authors. Hazlitt's essays in The Spirit of the Age (1825) were echoed by Mill's articles of the same title in 1831, by Thomas Carlyle's essays "Signs of the Times" (1829) and "Characteristics" (1831), and by Richard Henry Horne's New Spirit of the Age in 1844.

你的问题涵盖了几乎整个英国文学史，不是只言片语就能说明白的，建议你还是买本书看看吧