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Renaissance (I);Contents;1. Background;(2) Renaissance;2. Profile;(2) Life; (3) Works: 38 plays, 154 sonnets, 2 long poems; (4) Drama Four great comedies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (仲夏夜之梦) The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night As You Like It (皆大欢喜) Four great tragedies: Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth;Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed: But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.;(2) Sonnet 18 a. Techniques (a) Comparison “thou”— nature/summer (b) Use of images/metaphor: * a summer’s day/ summer: brilliance, light, life, youth, beauty, etc. * Images of a summer’s day: darling buds of May, the eye of heaven, gold complexion (personification) * Symbols of time, change and mortality rough winds, date of a lease, chance and nature’s changing course ;b. Theme: profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry/art to the one he loves ;Discussion;;(1) Story;Montague;(2) Discussion;(3) Themes ;d. Individual Versus society—humanistic ideas of Shakespeare and the Renaissance era Love Vs. feud Kinship Vs. duel Love Vs. planned marriage Death----reconciliation;(4) Classic Excerpts;(b) My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me That I must love a loathed enemy. (Juliet, I, v, 138) (c) That which we call a rose By any other name would s