英国文学史习题全集(含答案)

Part One Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.

1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in

invading and defeating England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is

____ .

A. Langland

B. Wycliffe

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. romance

D. essay

4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian

romances.

A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B.Beowulf

C. Piers the Plowman

D. The Canterbury

Tales

5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream

vision.

A. Kubla Khan

B. Piers the Plowman

C. The Dream of John Bull

D. Morte d’Arthur

6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in

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England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.

A. French

B. English

C. Latin

D.

Swedish

7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and

the first translator of the Bible.

A. Langland

B. Gower

C.Wycliffe

D.

Chaucer

8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams

the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.

A. primitive

B.feudal

C. bourgeois

D.

modern

9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly

emphasized in romances.

A.loyalty

B. revolt

C. obedience

D.

mockery

10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the

stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.

A. Morte d’Arthur

B. Robin Hood

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Piers the Plowman

11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the

greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in 4

about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Dryden

12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in

____.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D.

Westminster Abbey

13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a

translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.

A.The Romaunt of the Rose

B. “A Red, Red

Rose”

C. The Legend of Good Women

D. The Book of the

Duchess

14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of

occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.

A. engineer

B. courtier

C. office holder

D. soldier

E. ambassador

F. legislator (议员)

15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____

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based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.

A. The Legend of Good Women

B. Troilus and

Criseyde

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D. Beowulf

Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB

Ⅱ. Questions

1.What are the features of Beowulf?

https://www.docsj.com/doc/6315134383.html,ment on the social significance and language in The

Canterbury Tales.

Part Two The English Renaissance

Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.

1.Thomas More

2.Holinshed

3.Hakluyt

4.Richard Tottel

5.Philip Sidney

6.Walter Raleigh

A.Apology for Poetry

B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets

C.Utopia

D.Discovery of Guiana

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E.Principal

Navigations,

Voyages and Discoveries F.Chronicles

The key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.

1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of

a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising

bourgeoisie.

A. Henry V

B. Henry VII

C. Henry VIII

D.

James I

2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______,

“the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.

A. William Tyndal

B. James I

C. John Wycliffe

D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews

3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial

expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.

A. Henry V.

B. Henry VII

C. Henry VIII

D. Queen Elizabeth

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4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the

fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.

A. Spain

B. France

C. America

D. Norway

5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first

English colonies.

A. Francis Drake

B. Lancelot Andrews

C. William Caxton

D. William Tyndal

6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.

A. Ben Johnson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Thomas More

D. Christopher Marlowe

7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.

A. Lyly

B. Peele

C. Greene

D. Marlowe

8.Morality plays appeared after_____.

A. miracle plays

B. mystery plays

C. interlude

D. Classical plays

9._____ is used to say and do good things.

A. Mercy

B. Folly

C. Vice

D. Peace

10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.

A. Phillip Sidney

B. Edmund Spenser

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C. Thomas More

D. Walter Raleigh

11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.

A. Thomas North

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. George Chapman

D. John Florio

12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius

Caesar.

A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》

B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets

C.Don Quixote

D.History of the World

13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth

and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.

A. John Wycliffe

B. William Caxton

C. Geoffrey Chaucer

D. Thomas More

14.U topia was written in the form of _____.

A. prose

B. drama

C. essay

D. dialogue

15.O ne of the popular morality plays was ____.

A. The Shepherds

B. Everyman

C. The Play of the Weather

D. Gammer Gurton’s Needle

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16.S hakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes

called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.

A. 1590 and 1594

B. 1595 and 1600

C. 1601 and 1607

D. 1608 and 1612

17.M iranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.

A. Pericles

B. Cymbeline

C. The Winter’s Tale

D. The Tempest

18.I n _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before

Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.

A. 1606

B. 1607

C. 1608 1609

19.S hakespeare is one of the founders of ____.

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. classicism

20.A mong many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at

home (good at) with the _______.

A. dramatic blank verse

B. song

C. sonnet

D. couplet

21.I n the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.

A. 15000

B. 16000

C. 17000

D. 18000

22._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.

A. Christopher Marlow

B. Francis Bacon

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C. W. Shakespeare

D. Ben Johnson

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.

1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.

2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of

the struggle between ____ and ___.

3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.

4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____,

“the morning star of the _____”.

5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old

Tes tament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.

6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was

made in 1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.

7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version

has had a great influence on English ___ and ____.

8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the

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standard modern English has been _____ and _____.

9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily

English speech as household words.

10.T he ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has

colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.

11.____ was the first English printer.

12.W illiam Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he

was fond of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.

13.H e translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English

from French which was the ___ book printed in English. 14.T he Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and

Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》

15.A fter having established his printing press, William Caxton

devoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____.

16.W illiam Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which

were translated by himself.

17.B y rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton

exercised the youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.

18.T he influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing

a ____ language in England.

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19.A s the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the

profession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole.

20.T he Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in

the ______century.

21.T he word, “renaissance” means ________, which was

stimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________.

22.I n the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried

to get rid of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which

emphasized the capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.

24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem,

______, in which the rhyme scheme is ____.

25.T he Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of

___ and the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.

26.B ecause of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church

and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___

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took place in England, started by Henry VIII.

27.A fter ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants,

being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.

28.T he introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476)

brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.

29.T he 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up

____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.

30.B ecause the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a

time when, according to Thomas More, “___”.

31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries

and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.

32.T ogether with the development of bourgeois relationships

and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____. 33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first

English blank verse.

34.R ichard Tottel’s Mi scellany of Songs and Sonnets contained 14

_____ poems by ______ and _____ by _____.

35.P hilip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over

philosophy and history.

36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible

exposure of the ___ among the laboring classes.

37.M ore points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of

social wealth.

38.S onnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.

39.T he highest glory of the English Renaissance was

unquestionably its ____.

40.T he “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.

41.T here are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled

The Shepherds.

42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with

_____personages.

43.V ice was the predecessor of the modern _____.

44.T hrough the revival of classical literature, English

playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama.

45.F rom the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English

playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.

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46.E nglish comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared

in the middle of the ____ century.

47.T he first English comedy is ______.

48.T he first English tragedy is _____.

49.M iracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays

paved the way for the flourishing of ____.

50.I n the 16th century _____ became the centre of English

drama.

51.B y ____, professional actors were organized into companies.

52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with

tiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.

53.I n the Elizabethan Theater, t here were no ____ and women’s

parts were always taken by ____.

54.S hakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of

vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.

55.S hakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.

56.S hakespeare’s drama tic creation often used the method of

_____.

57.S hakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English

______.

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58.S hakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.

59.S hakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities

and implications of real life.

Key to the blanks:

https://www.docsj.com/doc/6315134383.html,tin Bible

2.Protestantism;

Catholicism

3.Protestants

4.John Wycliffe;

Reformation

5.William Tyndal

6.Authorized Version,

James I; King James

Bible.

https://www.docsj.com/doc/6315134383.html,nguage; literature

8.fixed; confirmed

9.Bible coinages

10.s imple; dignified

11.W illiam Caxton

12.R eading; literature

13.F irst 14.S hakespeare

15.P rinter; publisher

16.100; 24

17.15th ; prose

18.N ational

19.P ublisher; culture

20.14th; 17th

21.R eligious reformation

22.f eudalist ideas; interests; purity

23.H umanism; human mind; human

culture

24.S penserian; Edmund Spenser;

The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc

25.L ancaster; York

26.T he Reformation

27.t he Enclosure Movement;

proletarians

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28.p rinting

29.f eudal; capitalism

30.s heep devours men

31.W illiam VIII

32.R enaissance

33.H enry Howard, Earl

of Surrey

34.96, Sir Thomas

Wyatt, 40, Henry

Howard, Earl of

Surrey

35.p oetry

36.U topia, Book One;

poverty

37.p rivate ownership

38.I talian/Petrarchan ;

Shakespearean

39.D rama

40.B ible

41.r eal

42.C onflict; evil;

allegorical

43.C lown

44.G reek; Latin

45.S tructure; style; comedy; tragedy

46.16th

47.G ammer Gurton’s Needle《葛

顿大娘的缝衣针》

48.G orboduc 《高波特克》

49.D rama

50.L ondon

51.1567

52.E lizabethan theatres

53.a ctress; boys

54.c ountryside

55.m aster

56.a daptation (revision)

57.R enaissance

58.m aster-hand (能手)

59.f ull-blood

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Ⅳ. Say true or false.

1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped

out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.

2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the

reign of Queen Elizabeth.

3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a

powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.

4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious

movement in a political guise.

5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally

used by the Catholic churches.

6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in

imprisonment.

7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.

8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.

9.Translations occupied an important place in the English

Renaissance.

10.P hilip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and

Stella.

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11.T he Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches

after the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.

12.T he writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.

13.T wo lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville

(托马斯·萨克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.

14.S hakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups:

Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.

15.S hakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.

16.E ngels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, t he

truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.”

17.S hakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own

time.

18.S hakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more

than one theme)

19.T o 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.

20.E ngels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean

vivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.

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21.U topia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters

between More and Hythloday, a voyage.

22.S ir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.

23.C arl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and

mentioned it in his great work, The Capital.

24.T he highest glory of the English Renaissance was

unquestionably its poetry.

25.T he miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories,

such as the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.

26.G rammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy,

Gorboduc the first English tragedy.

27.B oth the gentlemen and the common people went to the

theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.

28.A fter Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected

and published his plays in 1623.

29.F rom Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that

Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time.

30.I n Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not

strictly regarded.

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31.K ing Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave

soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.

32.C oming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the

summit of Shakespeare’s art.

33.S hakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world

literature.

34.G enerally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama

was undergoing a process of prosperity.

35.E nglish Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama,

and was an age of prose.

36.T here are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and

Rosalind.

37.B en Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and

every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”.

38.I n Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of

his time.

Key to the True/False statements:

1.T

2.T

3.T

4.F. (a political movement in

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英国文学史及选读__期末试题及答案

考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷 考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX 考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班 I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. 1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B.England’s domestic rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ? A.Lover. B.Time. C.Summer. D.Poetry. 7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct. A.God’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s

英国文学史及选读 复习要点总结

《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释） 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读） 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读） 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。 16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress 17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images. 18. Enlightenment（名词解释） 19. Neoclassicism（名词解释） 20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler” 21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。 22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions 23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations 24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。 25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature. 26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。 27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison” 28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted V illage” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),

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