Lecture 2, Shakespeare I莎士比亚.ppt

Shakespeare;All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances And one man in his time plays many parts… ------William Shakespeare;The origin of western drama ;Dramatic terms ;Character: any person appearing in a drama or narrative;Tragedy ; Aeschylus Agamemnon Prometheus Bound Sophocles Oedipus the King Antigone ;Euripides Electra Medea Sooner would I stand Three times to face their battles, shield in hand, Than bear one child!;; The most influential writer?in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in?1564?to a successful middle-class glove-maker in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Around?1590?he left his family behind and traveled to London to work as an actor and playwright. Public and critical success quickly followed, and Shakespeare eventually became the most popular playwright in England. ; As the author of the 37 plays and?154?sonnets , Shakespeare has left an immense legacy. A number of Shakespeare’s plays seem to have transcended even the category of brilliance, becoming so influential as to profoundly affect the course of Western literature and culture ever after. ;Nurse:[Within] Madam!Juliet:I come, anon.—But if thou meanest not well,I do beseech thee—Nurse:Madam!Juliet:By and by, I come—To cease thy strife, and leave me to my grief.To-morrow will I send.;Romeo:So thrive my soul—Juliet:A thousand times good night! [Exit above]Romeo:A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.Act 2, scene 2, 149–157 ; With her nurse on the lookout, Juliet wraps up, for now, her famous balcony conversation with Romeo [ O ROMEO, ROMEO, WHEREFORE ART THOU ROMEO?]. Punctuated by the nurses warnings, Juliets speech becomes distracted. ;Still unsure of her feelings and of Romeos love, she nervously pleads that if his intentions are merely