【英语学习】莎士比亚ppt模版课件.pptVIP

1.Origin religious ceremony, church plays 2.Development Religious period miracle plays (mystery plays): biblical stories and the stories of the saints The Second Shepherd’s Play Moral period morality plays: dramatized allegory; the conflict between good and evil Everyman Interludes --- short plays played for light relief between the acts ---end of the 15th century ---a transition to Elizabethan drama 3.Renaissance drama ---comedy and tragedy were established as types of drama ---development of theaters ---growth of acting culture 4.University wits ---John Lyly, Robert Greene, George peele, Christopher Marlow, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Lodge ---technical innovations Free Renaissance tragedy for classical restraints Develop a comedy tradition more close to life John Lyly: write for a refined, aristocratic audience Thomas Kyd: start the tradition of revenge tragedy 5.Christopher Marlow ---most gifted “university wit” ---The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus Cause of the tragedy: blind faith in human intellect Theme: praise if individuality; conviction of the possibility of human efforts in conquering the universe ---make blank verse the principal instrument of English drama 6. William Shakespeare (1564-1616 ) Selected Reading Drama The Merchant of Venice Hamlet Sonnet Sonnet 18 Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Life born in Stratford-upon-Avon, his father is a tradesman neither a Londoner nor a courtier went to local grammar school married in 1582 not a university product an actor a shareholder in the theatre Two long poems Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece Shakespeare’s Sonnets The sonnets describe the devotion of a person, often identified as Shakespeare himself, to a young man whose beauty and virtue he praises and to a mysterious and faithless Dark Lady with whom the poet is infatuated. The first 126 s