莎士比亚与他的创作阶段讲课.pptx

Chapter 6 Shakespeare 141班 Life The Frist Period (1590 - 1594) The historical play(first historical tetralogy): Henry Ⅵ, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Richard Ⅲ Comedy: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love’s Labour’s Lost The revenge tragedy: Titus Andronicus The romantic tragedy: Romeo and Juliet (earlist great success in tragedy) Narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece The Frist Period (1590 - 1594) Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet combines a tragic situation with comedy and gaiety(愉快): 1. There are more comedy factors in the first half of a drama; 2. Romeo and Juliet both die for love, but the two sides family eventually reconcile and the ending is not typical tragedy; 3. It is lyrical(感情夸张的, 有抒情味的) and optimistic in spirit, lit up by the spring and sunshine of South Europe. Features 1. the period of apprenticeship in play – writing 2. He beard the mark of youth, but of youth with astonishing versatility and wonderful talent. So far as language is concerned, his early plays show an extraordinary facility in expression and a felicity in the choice of phrases and epithets(绰号). 3. He used misunderstanding coincidence to weave plot, performance figures. But the plots often end in every Jack having his fore – appointed Jill. He also created a series of ideal characters. 4. He tried to handle political themes and give historical lessons in early history plays. He focused on the new ideas, the new moral Acura praise humanism. Language At first, Shakespeare’s work consists of five rigid iambic(抑扬格的) feet, and the custom of rhyming made the verse even more mechanical and unfit for dramatic expression. But under the influence of Marlowe, he began to use blank verse(无韵诗). The First Period shows a general tendency of the gradual diminishing and disappearance of rhyme as the principal impediment in Shakespeare’s dramatic composition. The Second Period(1595 - 1600) 6