Unit-3-Young-William-Shakespeare年轻的莎士比亚概要.pptVIP

Literary Achievements 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 merry wives of Windsor Much Ado About Nothing Greatest Tragedies Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Hamlet: Soliloquy Shakespeare Festival Geoffrey Chaucer 杰弗雷·乔叟(1343-1400年10月25日)，英国文学之父，被公认为中世纪最伟大的英国诗人，也是首位葬在维斯特敏斯特教堂诗人之角(Poet of Westminster Abbey)的诗人。 Francis Drake 法兰西斯·德瑞克（1540年—1596年1月28日），英国探险家、著名海盗，据知他是第二位在麦哲伦之后完成环球航海的探险家。关于德瑞克的生平，有记载的不多，仅知他为海盗出身。 Queen of Egypt Puritan 清教徒 清教徒信奉加尔文主义(Calvinism)，认为《圣经》才是唯一最高权威，任何教会或个人都不能成为传统权威的解释者和维护者。 * * Unit 3Young William Shakespeare “All the world s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.” ——Shakespeare Pre-reading Questions: What do you know about Shakespeare? What amusing anecdotes did you learn about Shakespeare? Does the world really know much about his personal life? * * Born on April 23, 1564 as the 3rd of 8 kids in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Central England. 7, attended the local grammar school 14, he dropped out because his father was in debt. 18, he got married and later they had three children. 22, he left for London where he got some odd jobs in a theater. He began to play some roles and write plays and poem and he became very famous and rich. 52, he died on April 23. Shakespeare’s Birthplace * 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，这是一个问题； 是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？ 1.2 Structure of this text This passage can be roughly divided into three parts: Part 1 (Paragraph 1-20): Part 2 (Paragraph 21-41): Part 3 (Paragraph 42-51): * 1.3 Difficult words, phrases and sentences (P7) ran like the wind 飞快跑走；迅速逃走；风驰电掣般逃走 More examples: sleep like a log (sleep like a baby) 睡得香