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1、William Shakespeare,Chapter 4, Mengping Yang Xiaorong Liu,William Shakespeare1564-1616,“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 2

2、3, 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

3、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

4、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：,Sonnets,The Mercha

5、nt of Venice The Twelfth Night As You Like It Measure for Measure A Mid-Summer Nights Dream,A problem playracial 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 famou

6、s 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.

7、Goethe:Hamlet is a humanist and a thinker.A new literary theories:Oedipus complex.,Oedipus complex (俄狄浦斯情結(jié)),Boys do not hate their fathers because they would like to have sex with their mothers.,Oedipus is a prince.Unknowingly, he killed his father and married his mother.,king Lear,This tragedy depi

8、cts 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 t