Периоды английской литературы. Карпова В.А - 28 стр.

       Homely details and realistic treatment are significant features of the
interludes, which still followed the allegorical pattern of the Morality and yet
represented the growth away from the abstract and toward the individual and
particular.
       On the whole, the Interludes show the constant necessity for dramatic art
to seek new forms of appeal and the marked tendency in Renaissance art to
assert its own autonomy.
       To those, who know something of later dramatic achievement, the
Interludes may appear awkward in language and amateurish in structure. But
they were a series of innovations and experiment both interesting in themselves
and valuable in pointing the way for the Elizabethians. Taken along with the
Mysteries, Miracles, and Moralities, they help us to observe one of the most
interesting and continuous forms of evolution in the whole history of literature –
an evolution which, beginning with liturgical worship in mimetic or dialogue
form in the early ages of Christianity, can be traced up to the fullest
development of dramatic art in the early seventeenth century.
                                      Word Study
      I. Say the words in these pairs aloud, paying particular attention to where
      the stress lies.
      loyal – loyalty                               generate – generation
      scholar – scholarly                           participate – participation
      Arthur – Arthurian                            contemplate – contemplation
      sympathy – sympathetic                        combine – combination
      communal – community                          innovate – innovation
      high – height                                 personify – personification
      heresy – heretic                              modify – modification
      treat – treatment                             declaim – declamation
      judge – judgement                             possess – possession
      rite – ritual                                 resurrect – resurrection
      pagan – paganism                              protect – protection
      farce – farcial                               attract – attraction
      classics – classical                          evolve – evolution
      pervade – pervasive                           contribute – contribution
      mime – mimetic                                execute – execution
      II. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right. Place the
      letter of the definition in the space next to the word.
      literate ________________ a. widespread
      deal with ______________ b. to understand and assimilate mentally
      encourage _____________ c. to express very strong disapproval of
      challenge ______________ d. an aim or purpose

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