莎士比亚英文简介.ppt

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,*,*,William Shakespeare,1564-1616,“,All the world s a stage,and all the men and women,merely players.”,Main Contents,1.,Shakespeares literary position,2.,Shakespeares Legend life,3.,Shakespeares masterpiece,Shakespeare was born in Britain in April 23,1564,central Warwick County along the Evan River in Stratford,a wealthy families.,Shakespeare(1564 1616)the Great Renaissance dramatist,poet,European Renaissance humanism literature synthesizer.,1571：went to a good grammer school but had to learn Latin and Greek.During the six years,he got command of the basical writing skill and rich knowledge.1577：was took back from school by his father,and did all kind of jobs,which riched his social experience.,Youth,1582：married Anne Hathaway and later had 3 children.,1588：started to write plays,1990：The drama was becoming popular,so he worked in troupe as factotum at first,then as actor or director and finally as the stockholder.,1597：bought one of the largest houses in Stratford,which showed his financial affairs went well.,1610：retired to Stratford but still went on writing.,Troupe career,Masterpiece,Comedy,Tragedy：,S,onnets,The Merchant of Venice,The Twelfth Night,As You Like It,Measure for Measure,A Mid-Summer Nights Dream,A problem play,racial prejudiceJews,What you will,Tragedy,Hamlet,King Lear,Macbeth,Othello,As the first of the great tragedies,it is generally regarded as Shakespeares most popular play on the stage.,The famous line in the play,to be,or not to be,by Hamlet is often quoted by people.,Hamlet,is a revenge story and it is perhaps the most discussed of the four.What has caused the long dispute over this tragedy is the question why Hamlet delays in taking action.,Samuel Johnson,:Hamlet is too cruel to be liked.,Goethe,:Hamlet is a humanist and a thinker.,A new literary theories,:Oedipus complex.,Oedipus complex,(俄狄浦斯情结),Boys do not hate their fathers because they would like to have sex with their mothers.,Oedipus i,s,a prince.U,nknowingly,he,killed his father and married his mother.,king Lear,This tragedy depicts an aged king who believes in superficial words and is vain enough to judge rashly that the daughter who fails to say flatteries things doesnt love him.But the price he pays for his mistake is too heavy.,The shortest tragedies of Shakespeare work,It is Shakespeares great artistic power that renders a murderer to stir in us the kind of sympathy,Tells how a brave and noble Moor Othello walks into the trap set for him by the villain Iago and kills his beautiful and faithful wife Desdemona.,Many critics say that Othello is actually Iago play.,Thank you,