莎士比亚常识讲解课件.ppt

Who is Shakespeare? Don’t be obsessed with him, for he is just a legend. 不要迷恋他，他不过是个传说。 1564-1616 Before1588 or 1560 his life is full of ups and downs Education(1571-1578): 6 years ( small Latin and less Greek) Ups and downs(1578-1590) Golden age(1590-1612) at least one play a year (1594: three plays including Romeo and Juliet) Retire 1611/1612 If he is not a cheat, he must be a genius! Church records, folk stories, and comments of his peers Seem to do, must have learned, must have been… Achievements Drama Sonnet （十四行诗） Heroic couplet（英雄双韵体） Dramatic blank verse （戏剧无韵体） Hamlet Characters: Hamlet, Claudius, Polonius, Laertes, Gertrude, Ophelia Denmark Plot Famous lines: To be, or not to be: that is the question. What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words. Frailty, thy name is woman! 牛人朱生豪 Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother’s death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe, Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature That we with wisest sorrow think on him, Together with remembrance of ourselves. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, The imperial jointress of war-like state, Have we, as it were with a defeated joy, With one auspicious and one dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole,\ Taken to wife… 虽然我们亲爱的王兄哈姆雷特新丧未久， 我们的心里应当充满了悲痛，我们全国都应当表示一致的哀悼， 可是我们凛于死者责任的重大，不能不违情逆性， 一方面固然要用适度的悲哀纪念他，一方面也要为自身的利害着想； 所以，在一种悲喜交加的情绪之下，让幸福和忧郁分据了我的双眸，殡葬的挽歌和结婚的笙乐同时并奏， 用盛大的喜悦抵消沉重的不幸 我已经和我旧日的长嫂，当今的王后，这一个多事之国的共同统治者，结为夫妇。 Romeo and Juliet Characters: Romeo, Juliet, Montague, Capulet, Tybalt, Mercutio, Paris Italy Plot Famous scenes The balcony ( Act Ⅱ Scene Ⅰ) The parting ( Act Ⅲ Scene Ⅴ) Balcony O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn by love, And I will no longer be a Couplet. What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other