英语泛读教程1Unit 3 Young William Shakespeare.pptVIP

Unit 3 Text Young William Shakespeare I. Author Jennifer Bassett is an experienced teacher and the writer. She lives and works in the Devon , in the northwest of England. Jennifer is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, for which she has written the original stories One-Way Ticket, The Presidents Murderer, The Phantom of the Opera, and William Shakespeare, along with many adaptations. She is series co-adviser, with H.G Widdowson, of the Oxford Bookworms Collection. Jennifer has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series II. Introduction to William Shakespeare Will was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England and died in 1616. He was one of the greatest poet and playwright, one of the founders of realism in world literature, and a great master of the English language. He was skilled in many poetic forms. He has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance. Within about twenty-two years of his writing career, he gave to the world 38 plays, no two of which invoke the same feeling or image among the audience. He wrote lots of comedies, tragedies, histories and poetry. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Comedy (17) : All’s Well That Ends Well As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love’s Labours Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives of Windsor The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Winter’s Tale Tragedy (10): Antony and Cleopatra Coriolanus Hamlet Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus History (10): Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Henry VIII King John Richard II Richard III Poetry (5): The Sonnets A Lover’s Compla