首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field M
Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field M
admin
2010-02-17
48
问题
Moreover, insofar as any interpretation of its author can be made from the five or six plays attributed to him, the Wake field Master is uniformly considered to be a man of sharp contemporary observation. He was, formally, perhaps clerically educated, as his Latin and music, his Biblical and patristic lore indicate. He is, still, celebrated mainly for his quick sympathy for the oppressed and forgotten man, his sharp eye for character, a ready ear for colloquial vernacular turns of speech and a humor alternately rude and boisterous, coarse and happy. Hence despite his conscious artistry as manifest in his feeling for intricate metrical and stanza forms, he is looked upon as a kind of medieval Steinbeck, indignantly angry at, uncompromisingly and even brutally realistic in presenting the plight of the agricultural poor.
Thus taking the play and the author together, it is mow fairly conventional to regard the former as a kind of ultimate point in the secularization of the medieval drama. Hence much emphasis on it as depicting realistically humble manners and pastoral life in the bleak hills of the West Riding of Yorkshire on a typically cold bight of December 24th. After what are often regarded as almost "documentaries" given in the three successive monologues of the three shepherds, critics go on to affirm that the realism is then intensified into a burlesque mock treatment of the Nativity. Finally as a sort of epilogue or after-thought in deference to the Biblical origins of the materials, the play slides back into an atavistic mood of early innocent reverence. Actually, as we shall see, the final scene is not only the culminating scene but perhaps the raison d’etre of introductory "realism."
There is much on the surface of the present play to support the conventional view of its mood of secular realism. All the same, the "realism" of the Wakefield Master is of a paradoxical turn. His wide knowledge of people, as well as books indicates no cloistered contemplative but one in close relation to his times. Still, that life was after all a predominantly religious one, a time which never neglected the belief that man was a rebellious and sinful creature in need of redemption, So deeply (one can hardly say "naively" of so sophisticated a writer) and implicitly religious is the Master that he is less able (or less willing) to present actual history realistically than is the author of the Brome "Abraham and Isaac." His historical sense is even less realistic than that of Chaucer who just a few years before had done for his own time costume romances, such as The Knight’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida, etc. Moreover Chaucer had the excuse of highly romantic materials for taking liberties with history.
Which of the following statements about the Wakefield Master is NOT True?
选项
A、He was Chaucer’s contemporary.
B、He is remembered as the author of five or six realistic plays.
C、He writes like John Steinbeck.
D、He was an accomplished artist.
答案
C
解析
细节理解题。第一段作者说韦是一位世界公认的具有敏锐洞察力的作家。韦写的是诗歌形式的韵文,而斯坦贝克写的是小说和散文剧。所以说韦像斯坦贝克那样写作就错了。故选C。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/60nK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
PassageFourWhat’stheauthor’sattitudetowardstheindustrialsubsidypolicyofthegovernment?
PassageOne(1)WhenCarolineMeeberboardedtheafternoontrainforChicago,hertotaloutfitconsistedofasmalltrunk,
PassageOne(1)WhenCarolineMeeberboardedtheafternoontrainforChicago,hertotaloutfitconsistedofasmalltrunk,
PassageTwo(1)Britain’seconomywilllosemomentumthisyearamidsqueezedlivingstandardsanduncertaintyoverBrexita
PassageTwo(1)Britain’seconomywilllosemomentumthisyearamidsqueezedlivingstandardsanduncertaintyoverBrexita
PassageThree(1)Despitethetemptationforparentstosayyestotheirchildren’swishes,researchshowsthere’saninsid
Educationgivesustheknowledgeoftheworldaroundus.Itdevelopswithusaperspectiveoflookingatlife.Ithelpsusform
Georgehadstolensomemoney,butthepolicehadcaughthimandhehadbeenputinprison.Nowhistrialwasabouttobegin,and
Georgehadstolensomemoney,butthepolicehadcaughthimandhehadbeenputinprison.Nowhistrialwasabouttobegin,and
Thechairman______allthesuggestionsputforwardintoasingleplanofactionwhenthetragedytookplace.
随机试题
按照能力的倾向划分,可将能力分为一般能力和
对以下描述正确的是()。
关于专有信息和保密信息的内容,下列表述错误的是()。
在教学设计的学习者分析过程中,最需要分析的因素是()。
利用三颗位置适当的地球同步卫星,可使地球赤道上任意两点之间保持无线电通讯。目前,地球同步卫星的轨道半径约为地球半径的6.6倍。假设地球的自转周期变小,若仍仅用三颗同步卫星来实现上述目的,则地球自转周期的最小值约为()。
下列诗(词)句与抒情话语的修辞方式,对应恰当的一项是()。
钱穆先生在《国史新论》中说:“汉代宰相是首长制,唐代宰相是委员制。”造成这一现象的原因主要是()的实行。
A、 B、 C、 A
A、NorthernandsouthernEurope.B、AsiaandEasternEurope.C、Ireland,GermanyandWesternEurope.D、AfricanandotherpartsofA
Whoeverhasskillsshouldbeproperlytreatedandrewarded______hiseducationalbackground.
最新回复
(
0
)