Shakespeare,莎士比亚.ppt

Renaissance (I) William Shakespeare (1564~1616) Contents 1. Background 2. Profile 3. Sonnet 18 4. Romeo and Juliet 1. Background (1) Elizabethan Age (1558~1603) Renaissance Golden Age A. Religious tolerance (Catholics, Protestants, etc.) B. Economic prosperity (domestic employment overseas market) → Social stability contentment → Freedom of mind emphasis on human beings (2) Renaissance A. Time: transition from the medieval to the modern world (14th~mid-17th) B. Meaning: a new emphasis on the newly discovered Greek and Roman classics C. Form: combination or compromise between newly interpreted Christian tradition pagan classical culture D. Essence: attempts to get rid of feudalist ideas and justify the interests of the rising bourgeoisie 2. Profile (1) Birth: a merchant’s family in Stratford-upon-Avon A small but important market town between Manchester (90 miles) and Oxford, 45 miles from Birmingham (3) Works: 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 long poems (4) Drama Four great comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (仲夏夜之梦) The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night As You Like It (皆大欢喜) Four great tragedies: Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Penetrating exposition of human nature, lively painting of human life, truthful reflection of human reality 3. Sonnet 18 (1) Shakespeare and his sonnets A. 154 in all (during 1589~1598) B. Emotional themes About life, love, friendship, society C. All in popular English form Structure: 3 quatrains+ a couplet Rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg D. /sonnets1-40.htm Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wa