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2017年6月英语四级阅读理解100篇精析（26）
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2017年6月英语四级阅读理解100篇精析汇总
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.
1. Which of the following statements about the Wakefield Master is NOT
True?
[A]. He was Chaucer’s contemporary.
[B]. He is remembered as the author of five or six realistic plays.
[C]. He write like John Steinbeck.
[D]. HE was an accomplished artist.
2. By “patristic”, the author means
[A]. realistic. [B]. patriotic
[C]. superstitious. [C]. pertaining to the Christian Fathers.
3. The statement about the “secularization of the medieval drama” refers to
the
[A]. introduction of mundane matters in religious plays.
[B]. presentation of erudite material.
[C]. use of contemporary introduction of religious themes in the early
days.
4. In subsequent paragraphs, we may expect the writer of this passage
to
[A]. justify his comparison with Steinbeck.
[B]. present a point of view which attack the thought of the second
paragraph.
[C]. point out the anachronisms in the play.
[D]. discuss the works of Chaucer.
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