,William Shakespeare,-The peak of Humanism,William Shakespeare 1564-1616,“All the world s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.”,Main Contents,1.Shakespeares literary position 2.Shakespeares Legend life 3.Shakespeares masterpiece,1.Shakespeares literary position,In western literary history, only very individual writers have qualified say: without him, the literature will become another way. Shakespeare is one of the most qualified.,Shakespeare is the greatest playwright and poet in the world of the history.,2.Shakespeares life (1564-1616),Birthplace,Born in Warwickshire The 3rd of 8 kids Married at age 18 Worked as an actor before1590.,The home of Mary Arden, wee Willy Shakespeares mothers house,Anne Hathaways Shakespeares wife cottage,The Avon River, near Stratford-upon-Avon.,Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon,The son of groceries businessman in the town,18 married Leaving home for London to make living at about 22,doing as the groom, Dickinson Starting writing plays at about 30 years old 5 years later, becoming “universal“ shareholder of troupe.,The New Globe Theater,The life of Shakespeare,Arrive in London in 1586 Well-known in 1581 Died on the 23rd of April,1616,The tomb of Shakespeare,A respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the 19th century. His work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world,About his works,The works of William Shakespeare are a great land mark in the history of world literature. He was the first founders of realism(现实主义)，a masterhood at realistic portrayal of human characters and relations.,Karl Marx regarded Aeschylus and Shakespeare as “the two greatest dramatic geniuses the world has ever know.” Shakespeare took stories from old sources such as old drama, novel, chronicles(编年史)and folk legends.（民间传说) Under Shakespeares pen, those stories assumed new meaning and significance.,In the expression of art, he inherited three traditions of the dramas of ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Britain and the European Renaissance and developed, innovating creatively from the content to the form. His plays try hard to reflect the true life and explore the inner mysteries, thus can figure out many diverse and complex personalities, vivid characters that represent the typical figure and social life.,During the twenty-two years of his literary work he produced 37 plays, two narrative poems and 154 sonnets. His literary work may be divided into three major periods： The first period(1590-1600) The second period(1601-1608) The third period(1609-1612),His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry（复杂性和艺术性） by the end of the sixteenth century. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet(1601), Othello(1604),King Lear(1605), and Macbeth(1605), considered some of the finest works in the English language,3.Shakespeares writing,1) 154 sonnets, two long poem,poetry 十四行诗（The Sonnets） 爱人的怨诉（A Lovers Complaint） 鲁克丽丝失贞记（The Rape of Lucrece） 维纳斯和阿多尼斯（Venus and Adonis） 热情的朝圣者（The Passionate Pilgrim 凤凰和斑鸠（The Phoenix and the Turtle）,Sonnet: a lyric poem comprising 3 quatrains with a rhyming scheme ababcdcdefef And a couplet rhyming gg,Sonnet 18 William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? Thou art more love ly and more tempe rate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of the heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or natures changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst; Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst: So long as a man can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives live to thee.,Shall I compare thee to a summers day? 能否把你与夏日相比？ Thou art more lovely and more temperate: 你却比炎夏更可爱温婉； Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 狂风摧残五月的蓓蕾， And summers lease hath all too short a date,夏日的时光何其短暂。 Sometimetoo hot the eye of heaven shines, 休恋那丽日当空， And often is his gold complexion dimmed; 转眼又云雾迷蒙； And every fair from fairsometime declines, 休叹百花凋零， By chance, or natures changing course untrimed 摧残于无常即或天命。,The furthest distance in the world Is not when I stand in front of you Yet you cant see my love But when undoubtedly knowing the love from both Yet cannot be together The furthest distance in the world Is not being apart while being in love But when painly cannot resist the yearning Yet pretending you have never been in my heart The furthest distance in the world Is not but using ones indifferent heart To dig