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1、William Shakespeare（15641616）Shakespeare (1564-1616)English playwright and poetone of the greatest dramatists.The most widely quoted author in historyHis plays have probably been performed more times than those of any other dramatist.To be or not to be,that is a question.（生存还是毁灭，这是一个问题。）Better a wit

2、ty fool than a foolish wit.(宁为聪明的渔夫，不做愚蠢的才子。）A light heart lives long.（豁达者长寿）Words,words,only words,no matter from the heart.（空话，空话，只有空话，没一点是真。）The course of true love never did run smooth.(A Midsummer Nights Dream)真爱无坦途。仲夏夜之梦 Famous sayingLove is merely a madness.（爱情不过是一种疯狂。皆大欢喜）It is a wise father

3、 that knows his own child.（知子之父为智。威尼斯商人）A little more than kin,and less than kind.(超乎寻常的亲族，漠不相关的路人。哈姆雷特)Nothing will come of nothing.(一无所有只能换来一无所有。李尔王)Keep up your bright swords,for the dew will rust them.(收起你们明晃晃的剑，它们沾了露水会生锈的。奥赛罗)Famous sayingShakespeares Birthplace-He was born in this house on Hen

4、ley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 23,1564.Shakespeares Burial Site-He died on April 23,1616,and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon,Warwickshire,shown here.HIS COMEDIESMature Comedies-The romantic plays As You Like It,The Merry Wives of Windsor,and Twelfth Night are

5、 often characterized as joyous comedies because of their generally happy mood and sympathetic characters.Written around 1599 and 1600,they represent Shakespeares triumph in the field of high comedy.第十二夜第十二夜皆大欢喜皆大欢喜仲夏夜之梦仲夏夜之梦无事生非无事生非威尼斯商人威尼斯商人驯悍记驯悍记among the most powerful studies of human nature in a

6、ll literature appropriately as the greatest achievements of his dramatic artistry.his unforgettable tragic characters,such as Romeo and Juliet,Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,and MacbethHIS tragedies哈姆雷特奥赛罗李尔王麦克白History plays（sometimes known as chronicle plays）-a highly popular form of drama in Shakespeare

7、s time.Shakespeare wrote ten plays listed in the 1623 Folio.Eight of them re-create the period in English history from 1399His history playsWilliam Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.the first 126 Shakespearean sonnetsto a handsome young manThe latter Shakespearean sonnets are addressed to a dark lady of

8、 ill repute Sonnet20Sonnet201 A womans face with natures own hand painted,2.Hast thou,the master mistress of my passion;3.A womans gentle heart,but not acquainted4.With shifting change,as is false womens fashion:5.An eye more bright than theirs,less false in rolling,6.Gilding the object whereupon it

9、 gazeth;7.A man in hue all hues in his controlling,8.Which steals mens eyes and womens souls amazeth.9.And for a woman wert thou first created;10.Till Nature,as she wrought thee,fell a-doting,11.And by addition me of thee defeated,12.By adding one thing to my purpose nothing.13.But since she prickd thee out for womens pleasure,14.Mine be thy love and thy loves use their treasure