Lecture7 William Shakespeare.pptVIP

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare His Works The Merchant of Venice Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare an English poet and playwright the greatest writer in the English language the worlds preeminent dramatist Englands national poet and the “Bard of Avon” His surviving works consist of 38 plays,154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. Shakespeare or Somebody Else? Few records of Shakespeares private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Stratford-on-Avon 班可罗夫特公园（Stratfords Bancroft Gardens）：莎士比亚和他喜剧中的四大著名人物的雕塑群掩映在公园里靠近路边的绿树白花之中，莎翁风度优雅地坐在碑顶的一把椅子上，纪念碑四周立着4尊雕像，分别是哈姆雷特（Hamlet）、霍尔王子（Prince Hal)，即亨利五世(Henry V)、麦克白夫人(Lady Macbeth)和法尔斯塔夫(Falstaff)，他们都是莎剧中的重要人物，分别象征着哲学和历史、悲剧和喜剧 the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon （圣三一教堂) Poets’ Corner SHYLOCK ????To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, ????it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and ????hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses, ????mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my ????bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine ????enemies; and whats his reason? I am a Jew. Hath ????not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, ????dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with ????the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject ????to the same diseases, healed by the same means, ????warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as ????a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? ????if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison ????us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not ????revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will ????resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, ????what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian ????wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by ????Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you ????tea