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Unit 2　King Lear Unit 2 King Lear 课件 教材背景链接 William Shakespeare (1564～1616) is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known.With his 38 plays，154 sonnets and 2 long poems，he has established his giant position in world literature. He has also been given the highest praises by various scholars and critics the world over.In the past 400 years or so，books and essays on Shakespeare and his works have kept coming out in large quantities. Shakespeare went to a London which afforded a wonderful environment for the development of drama. From about 1591 to about 1611，Shakespeare was in the prime of his dramatic career and his plays came out one after another.Shakespeare did not confine his genius merely to the theater. In 1593 and 1594，he published two narrative poems(叙事诗)．He also wrote sonnets，which were published in 1609.By 1597，Shakespeare was so prosperous that he bought the largest house in Stratford，known as New Place.About 1610 Shakespeare left London and retired to Stratford.He died on April 23，1616. Generally his dramatic career is divided into four periods. The first period was one of apprenticeship. He wrote five history plays：Henry Ⅵ，arts Ⅰ，Ⅱ and Ⅲ，Richard Ⅲ，and Titus Andronicus；and four comedies：The comedy of Errors，The Two Gentlemen of Verona，The Taming of the Shrew， and Love’s Labour’s Lost. In the second period，Shakespeare’s style and approach became highly individualized.In this Period he wrote five histories：Richard Ⅱ，King John，Henry Ⅳ，Parts Ⅰ and Ⅱ，and Henry Ⅴ；six comedies：A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice，Much Ado About Nothing， As you Like It，Twelfth Night，and The Merry Wives of Windsor；and Two tragedies：Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar. Shakespeare’s third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies.The tragedies of this period are Hamlet，Othello，King Lear，Macbeth，Antony and Cleopatra， Troilus and Cressida，and Coriolanus.The two comedies are All’s Well That Ends Well and Me