英语精读4unit4部分背景知识介绍.pptVIP

Background informationof UNIT4 Content The Delacorte Theater Belvedere Castle Henry Luce Nature Observatory Shakespeare Garden The Delacorte Theater(戴拉寇特剧院） Area: 1,800-seat open-air?theater? Adress: Central Park, in the?borough?of?Manhattan?in?New York City Operator:Public Theater Opened:1962 The theater History The theater is named in honor of?George T. Delacorte, Jr., who donated money for its establishment. The first production, in 1962, was?The Merchant of Venice starring?George C. Scott?and?James Earl Jones. Over five million people have attended more than 150 free productions of Shakespeare and other classical works and musicals at the Delacorte Theater since its opening in 1962. Ticketing Tickets to Shakespeare in the Park are free and can only be obtained the day of a performance.? Belvedere Castle is a?folly?in?Central Park?in?Manhattan,?New York City. It contains exhibit rooms and an observation deck, and since 1919, the folly has also been the location of the official Central Park weather station. Belvedere Castle(眺望台城堡) Belvedere Castle was designed by?Frederick Law Olmsted?and?Calvert Vaux?in the late 1800s. An architectural hybrid of?Gothic?and?Romanesque?styles, Vaux‘s design called for a more weighty Manhattan?schist?and?granite structure with a corner tower with conical cap, with the existing lookout over parapet walls between them.To reduce costs it was revised in November 1870, and completed under the new?Tammany Hall?regime as an open painted-wood pavilion. Belvedere means beautiful view or panoramic view in Italian. Henry luce nature observatory（亨利.鲁斯 自然观测中心） Named for philanthropist Henry Luce (founder of Time Magazine) the Nature Observatory is housed inside one of the parks most beautiful buildings, Belvedere Castle. The Castle also houses the Central Park center of the National Weather Bureau. Every minute the current climate conditions are sent to the weather center at Brookhaven, Long