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,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Unit 4 A man from Stratford -William Shakespeare,1/72,In your opinion,what is Shakespeare famous for?,Could you give some names of Shakespeares famous work/play?,Pre-reading Activity,Pre-reading questions:,2/72,Background Information,William Shakespeare(1564-1616),born in Stratford-on-Avon in England,is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets in the world.He has established his giant position in the world literature with his 38 plays,154 sonnets and 2 long poems.,3/72,William Shakespeare,Many well-known English sayings come from Shakespeares work,and he has a great influence on the English language and English literature.Surprisingly little is known about his life.,4/72,Shakespeare lived in an age when the old feudal social and economic order was being destroyed and a new capitalist society was being born and when London took a leading part in that destruction and that new birth.The theatrical companies actively participated in all the current affairs of London and by their performances helped to propagate new ideas.,5/72,a.Apprenticeship period.,b.Highly individualized period.,c.Greatest tragedies and dark comedies,period.,d.Romantic tragicomedies period.,6/72,Histories历史剧,约翰王,里查二世,亨利四世,亨利五世,亨利六世,里查三世,亨利八世,King John,Richard,Henry（part 1 and 2）,Henry,Henry （part 1、2 and 3）,Richard,Henry,7/72,Comedies 喜剧,Troilus and Cressida,The Tempest,The two Gentleman of Verona,Measure For Measure,Comedy Of Errors,Much Ado About Nothing,Loves Labours Lost,A Midsummer Nights Dream,Merchant Of Venice,As You Like It,Taming Of The Shrew,Alls Well That Ends Well,Twelfth Night,Winters Tale,特洛埃勒斯与克莱西达,暴风雨,维洛那二绅士,一报还一报,错中错,无事生非,爱徒劳,仲夏夜之梦,威尼斯商人,皆大欢喜,驯悍记,终成眷属,第十二夜,冬天故事,8/72,9/72,Tragedies 悲剧,Cymbeline,Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth,Othello,Romeo And Juliet,Timon Of Athens,Coriolanus,Julius Caesar,Antony and Cleopatra,辛柏林,哈姆雷特,李尔王,麦克白,奥赛罗,罗密欧与朱丽叶,雅典泰门,科利奥兰纳斯,恺撒大帝,安东尼与克利欧佩特拉,10/72,11/72,The common features:,Each portrays some noble hero,who faces the,injustice of human life,and is caught in a,difficult situation,and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.,12/72,famous lines and statements,Frailty,your name is woman!,脆弱啊，你名字是女人！,To be or not to be，thats a question.,生存还是毁灭，那是个值得思索问题。,Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.,宁为聪明愚夫，不作愚蠢才子。,A light heart lives long.,豁达者长寿。,Dont gild the lily.,不要给百合花镀金/画蛇添足。,13/72,Before Reading_4_1,Detailed Reading,Global Reading,After Reading,bay(bark at)the moon,对月亮吠叫（干徒劳无益事）,Whats done is done.,事情干了就算了（既往不咎）,Murder will out.(Truth will come to light.),纸包不住火（真相终将大白）。,strange bedfellows,同床异梦,to gild the refined gold/to paint the lily/to smooth the ice,多此一举,measure for measure,一报还一报,much ado about nothing,无事生非,14/72,Achievements,A).,The characters,B).,Construction,C).,Language and style,15/72,The character,a.Applying a,psycho-analytical,approach;,Great in exploring the characters,inner mind,.,b.Portraying characters in pairs；,Contrasts,are frequently used to bring,vividness to his characters.,16/72,The construction,a.Shakespeares plays are well-known for their,adroit plot,construction.,He borrows them from some,old plays,or,storybooks,or from ancient Greek and Roman sources.,b.He would shorten the time and,intensify,the story.There are usually,several threads,running through the play.,17/72,Language and style,a.,Irony,is a good means of dramatic presentation.,Disguise,is also an important device to create dramatic irony,usually with woman disguised as man.,b.He has an amazing wealth of,vocabulary,and,idiom,.His,influence,on later writers is immeasurable.Almost all English writers after him have been influenced by him either in,artistic point of view,in,literary form,or in,language,.,18/72,Stratford-upon-Avon,Stratford-upon-Avon,is a market town in south Warwickshire,England.It lies on the,River Avon,.The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare,receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world.,19/72,Stratford-upon-Avon shown within Warwickshire,20/72,Stratford-upon-Avon,21/72,Historic map from 1908,22/72,John Shakespeares house in Stratford-upon-Avon,23/72,River Avon,24/72,The River Avon by the Royal ShakespeareTheatre in Stratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire,25/72,Renaissance,Renaissance:,the period of time in Europe between 14th and 17th centuries,when art,literature,philosophy,and scientific ideas became very important and a lot of new art etc was,produced,26/72,Global reading,27/72,Skimming,1.Decide which of the following statements best sums up the text.,(2)William Shakespeare has written a lot of great works.,William Shakespeares life story is supposition rather than fact.,William Shakespeares life is full of adventure and coincidence.,28/72,Skimming,2.Which type of writing does the text belong to?,Narration.,3.How does the writer organize the text?What technique,does the writer use in the narration?,The writer organizes the story in the usual chronological order.He classifies Shakespeares life into chronological periods,the division of which is based on a time order.He uses the flashback technique,i.e.to begin with the signing of the will and then turns back to the beginning,the middle,and the end of Shakespeares life.,29/72,skimming,Skim the text and find out the words or sentences in each paragraph which best sums up the main idea of the paragraph.,Nothing remains of the writers own handwriting but his signature.,Para.1,Para.2,Para.3,Para.4,Para.5,Para.6,Para.7,The last sentence,The first sentence,The first sentence,traveled abroad,The last sentence,The first sentence,30/72,Further reading T or F,Anne Hathaway and Susanna Hall got Shakespeares real estate.,2.For Anne Hathaway and his married daughter the most interesting part of the will was his signature because without it,the will would not have been valid.,3.Every detail of,Shakespeares,life is fact as well as supposition.,4.Shakespeare is considered to have been born in Roman times.,5.People in every country read Shakespeares works with fear.,6.Shakespeares Elizabethan English is not very difficult to people who understand modern English.,7.It is a waste of time for tourists to go to Shakespeares birthplace.,8.It is not surprising that Shakespeare left us nothing but his signature.,F,(),F,F,F,F,F,F,F,(),(),(),(),(),(),(),31/72,Detailed reading,32/72,L.1 master:,n.,someone who is very skilled at something.Here it refers to a person who is recognized as having achieved a very high degree of skill.,大师,master of:,a person who is skilled at sth.,He was a master of short stories.,他擅长写短篇小说。,He is a master of disguise.,他是个精于伪装人。,master at(doing)something,Shes a master at manipulating people.,33/72,L.2 legacy:,n.,1.money or property that you receive from someone after they die,They each received a legacy of 5000.,2.,something that happens or exists as a result of things that happened at an earlier time,后遗症，遗留问题,The problems were made worse by the legacy of centuries of neglect.,这些问题因为长久无人过问，情况变得愈加严重。,Future generations will be left with a legacy of pollution and destruction.,留给子孙后代将是环境污染与破坏。,34/72,L.3 estate:,n.,She left her estate to her husband.,1.(law)all of someones property and money,especially everything that is left after they die,2.a large piece of land in the country,usually with one large house on it and one owner,房地产,3.a piece of land on which buildings have all been built together in a planned way,庄园,35/72,Fill in the blanks with“estate”or“legacy”.,He has a beautiful near London.,（他在离伦敦不远处有一个漂亮庄园。）,b)These are the cultural of the Renaissance.,（这些是文艺复兴时期文化遗产。）,c)The old man left an of two million dollars when he died.,（那老人逝世时留下二百万美元遗产。）,d)He settled part of his on his son.,（他把部分财产转让给儿子了。）,estate,legacies,estate,estate,_,_,_,_,36/72,e)His weak chest was a of a childhood illness.,（他,那瘦弱胸脯是儿时患病后遗症。）,f)He invited us to his country for a weekend shoot.,（他邀请我们到异乡下庄园去过一次打猎周末。）,g)Remove a from a will,because the item concerned,no longer exists.,（因为相关物品已不再存在，从遗嘱中将其除,消。）,legacy,estate,legacy,_,_,_,37/72,L.2 second best bed and furniture,Before an adjective of the superlative degree,we can often use“second”or“third”or“by far”to modify it.,John received the title of vice president at the bank and became the second most important figure.,38/72,L.3 comfortably off:,having enough money to live in comfort,His family is badly off,so they cant send him to university.,The less well-off pensioners are finding it hard to survive on what they get.,那些比较贫穷领养老金者以为极难靠所得养老金生存下去。,Other expressions:,well off,badly off,39/72,They are very well-to-do.,他们很阔绰。,well-to-do:,equal to“rich and wealthy”,meaning the possession of more than enough money or property,Demonstrators protested that the tax bill favored the well-to-do.,示威者们抗议征税法案偏袒富人。,40/72,L.4 amount to:,Our monthly expenditure on food usually amounts to 150 yuan.,His debts amount to$1000.,Your words amount to a refusal.,1.add up to,reach,2.be equal in meaning,be the same as,This conversation amounts to a difference of opinion between us.,他欠债高达1000美元。,41/72,She was in awe of her grandfather,but adores her grandmother.,We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach.,The imprisoned soldiers were in awe of their captors.,L.8 awe,42/72,Paraphrase the sentence.,People all over the world read Shakespeares work with a feeling of profound respect and wonderment because there is something about him that made people charmed,L.7,There is no country where Shakespeares work is not read with something very like awe because there is something fascinating about a man,43/72,Paraphrase the sentence.,We do not base every minute and particular detail of his personal life on facts,but only on guesswork.,L.10,almost every detail of his personal life is supposition rather than fact.,44/72,Why does the writer say“Historically speaking,Shakespeare lived only yesterday”?,From the historical point of view,four hundred years is only a short period of time.Besides,historians set the date 1453 as the beginning of modern history.Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616.So to historians,Shakespeare lived in the same time as we do,not far away from us in history,as if he were living only yesterday.,L.11,Historically speaking,Shakespeare lived only yesterday,45/72,L.12 vague:,adj,.,unclear;not having a clear shape or form,The governor gave only a vague outline of his tax plan.,be vague about,Julia was vague about where she had been and what she had been doing.,have a vague idea/feeling/recollection,etc.(that):,to think that something might be true or that you remember something,although you cannot be sure,Larry had the vague feeling hed done something embarrassing the night before.,Larry 隐约以为前一天晚上他做了很丢人事情。,46/72,Paraphrase the sentence.,We are often uncertain about the things and people in the,ancient,time.We are so uncertain about Shakespeares activities that we might as well say that he was born when the Romans occupied Britain a long time ago.,L.11,but his activities,like those of nearly every playwright of his day,are so vague that he could have been born in Roman times.,47/72,L.14 thrive:,v.,to become very successful or very strong and healthy,New businesses thrive in this area.,These animals rarely thrive in captivity.,thrive on something:,enjoy or be successful in a particular situation,especially one that other people find difficult or unpleasant,I wouldnt want that much pressure,but she seems to thrive on it.,48/72,thriving:,adj.,being very successful,My business is thriving.,Tangshan has developed into a thriving city over the past thirty years since the disastrous earthquake.,49/72,Paraphrase this sentence.,Because of its most famous citizen William Shakespeare,Stratford-upon-Avon has made a lot of money for a long time.,L.14,had made a thriving business out of its most famous citizen for a long time.,50/72,Cultural background:Shakespeares Elizabethan English,Shakespeare lived during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I(1558-1603).The English language used in that period is called Elizabethan English,which is classified as early modern English and which is different from present-day English in many respects,such as pronunciation,spelling,grammar and vocabulary.Thats why many tourists have difficulties in understanding it.,L.15,many of them would have the greatest of difficulty in understanding Shakespeares Elizabethan English.,51/72,Shall I compare thee to a summers day?,我怎么能够把你来比作夏天？,Thou art more lovely and more temperate:,你不独比它可爱也比它温婉：,Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,狂风把五月溺爱嫩蕊作践，,And summers lease hath all too short a date:,夏天出赁期限又未免太短,Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,天上眼睛有时照得太酷烈，,And often is his gold complexion dimmd;,它那炳耀金颜又常遭掩蔽；,And every fair from fair sometime declines,被机缘或无常天道所摧折，,By chance or natures changing course untrimmd;,没有芳艳不终于雕残或销毁；,：，,52/72,But thy eternal summer shall not fade,不过你长夏永远不会雕落，,Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;,也不会损失你这皎洁红芳；,Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,或死神夸口你在他影里漂泊，,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:,当你在不朽诗里与时同长：,So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,只要一天有些人类，或人有眼睛,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.,这诗将长存，而且赐给你生命。,(Sonnet 18),（梁宗岱译）,53/72,L.17 well:,a lot,or to a great degree,to a considerable extent,It was well after 12 oclock when they arrived.,Stand well back from the bonfire.,The village is well below sea level.,The amphitheatre is well worth a visit.,well before/after/above/below,etc.,Im well aware of the problems involved.,I went out and got well and truly drunk.,54/72,What is meant by this sentence?,Anyone who wants to make an outline of Shakespeares life finds himself in a difficult situation.He is like a detective trying to find out about a case.He has only a lot of clues but hardly any facts or evidence.,L.20,To plot Shakespeares life is to become involved in a kind of detective story where there are plenty of clues but very little else.,55/72,L.22 confirm:,v.,The king confirmed that the election would be on June 20th.,2.to give approval to(a person,agreement,position),Please confirm your telephone message in writing.,After a six-month probationary period,her position was confirmed.,When do you think the President will confirm you in office?,1.to support,make certain,give proof of,国王核实了选举将会在6月20号举行,56/72,L.22 baptize:,v.,to perform the ceremony of baptism,baptism:,a Christian religious ceremony in which a person is touched or covered with water to make him pure to show that he has been accepted as a member of the church,57/72,58/72,59/72,60/72,L.30 conviction:,n.,the feeling of being sure about something and having no doubts,He was able to say with conviction that he had changed.,He said he agreed but his voice lacked conviction.,with conviction:,必定、深信,without/lack conviction:,不必定,他说他同意了，不过他声音里流露出不确定。,61/72,What is meant by this sentence?,It means“After Shakespeare had seen some of the performances put on by some of
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