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William Shakespeare1564-1616;Main Contents;△ Shakespeare was born in Britain in April 23, 1564, central Warwick County along the Evan River in Stratford, a wealthy families.;Shakespeare (1564~ 1616) the Great Renaissance dramatist, poet, European Renaissance humanism literature synthesizer.;△1571：went to a good grammer school but had to learn  Latin and Greek.During the six years,he got  command of the basical writing skill and rich  knowledge.△1577：was took back from school by his father, and did all kind of jobs,which riched his social experience.;△1582：married Anne Hathaway and later had 3 children. △1588：started to write plays △1990：The drama was becoming popular, so he worked in troupe as factotum at first, then as actor or director and finally as the stockholder. △1597：bought one of the largest houses in Stratford,which showed his financial affairs went well. △1610：retired to Stratford but still went on writing. ;Masterpiece;;A problem play△racial prejudice△Jews;What you will;Tragedy;;;Hamlet is a revenge story and it is perhaps the most discussed of the four.What has caused the long dispute over this tragedy is the question why Hamlet delays in taking action.;Samuel Johnson:Hamlet is too cruel to be liked.Goethe:Hamlet is a humanist and a thinker.A new literary theories:Oedipus complex.;;king Lear;This tragedy depicts an aged king who believes in superficial words and is vain enough to judge rashly that the daughter who fails to say flatteries things doesnt love him.But the price he pays for his mistake is too heavy. ;;The shortest tragedies of Shakespeare’ work It is Shakespeare’s great artistic power that renders a murderer to stir in us the kind of sympathy ;Tells how a brave and noble Moor Othello walks into the trap set for him by the villain Iago and kills his beautiful and faithful wife Desdemona. Many critics say that Othello is actually Iago’ play.;