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William Shakespeare —The Father of English Drama  Shakespeare I. Life experience Born on April 23, 1564；1616, he died on April 23. Literary Career 38 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. Comedy Tragedy Historical plays Comedies As You Like It Twelfth Night Midsummer Night’s Dream The Merchant of Venice The Taming of the Shrew Much Ado About Nothing Greatest Tragedies Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Principal Characters Hamlet: Prince of Denmark Claudius: King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle Gertrude: Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother Polonius: Lord Chamberlain under Claudius Ophelia: Polonius’ daughter, Hamlet’s love Laertes: Polonius’ son Horatio: Hamlet’s schoolmate loyal friend Rosencrantz Guildenstern: Hamlet’s schoolmates Fortinbras: Prince of Norway Ghost of King Hamlet Soliloquy Soliloquy is that a character speaks out his thought without addressing a listener. E,g. To be, or not to be, This is a question. To be or not to be To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? 生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题；默然忍受命运的暴虐的毒箭，或是挺身反抗人世的无涯的苦难，通过斗争把它们扫清，这两种行为，哪一种更高贵？ To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, tis a consummation Devoutly to be wishd. 死了；睡着了；什么都完了；要是在这一种睡眠之中，我们心头的创痛，以及其他无数血肉之躯所不能避免的打击，都可以从此消失，那正是我们求之不得的结局。 To be or Not to Be Main Idea: This is an internal philosophical debate on the advantages and disadvantages of existence, and whether it is ones right to end his or her own life. It presents a most logical and powerful examination of the theme of the moral legitimacy of suicide in an unbearably painful world. Functions of the soliloquy: 1) to give expression to a complicated state of mind and feeling of a character 2) to provide a point of