William Shakespeare,（15641616）,Shakespeare(1564-1616),English playwright and poetone of the greatest dramatists. The most widely quoted author in history His plays have probably been performed more times than those of any other dramatist.,To be or not to be, that is a question. （生存还是毁灭，这是一个问题。） Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.(宁为聪明的渔夫，不做愚蠢的才子。） A light heart lives long.（豁达者长寿） Words , words, only words, no matter from the heart.（空话，空话，只有空话，没一点是真。） The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Nights Dream) 真爱无坦途。 仲夏夜之梦,Famous saying,Love is merely a madness. （爱情不过是一种疯狂。皆大欢喜）It is a wise father that knows his own child.（ 知子之父为智。威尼斯商人 ） A little more than kin, and less than kind. (超乎寻常的亲族，漠不相关的路人。哈姆雷特 ) Nothing will come of nothing. (一无所有只能换来一无所有。李尔王)Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. (收起你们明晃晃的剑，它们沾了露水会生锈的。奥赛罗 ),Famous saying,Shakespeares Birthplace -He was born in this house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 23 ,1564.,Shakespeares Burial Site-He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shown here.,HIS COMEDIES,Mature Comedies -The romantic plays As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and Twelfth Night are often characterized as joyous comedies because of their generally happy mood and sympathetic characters. Written around 1599 and 1600, they represent Shakespeares triumph in the field of high comedy.,第十二夜,皆大欢喜,仲夏夜之梦,无事生非,威尼斯商人,驯悍记,among the most powerful studies of human nature in all literature appropriately as the greatest achievements of his dramatic artistry. his unforgettable tragic characters, such as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth,HIS tragedies,哈姆雷特,奥赛罗,李尔王,麦克白,History plays（sometimes known as chronicle plays ）-a highly popular form of drama in Shakespeares time. Shakespeare wrote ten plays listed in the 1623 Folio .Eight of them re-create the period in English history from 1399,His history plays,Shakespeares sonnets,William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.,the first 126 Shakespearean sonnets to a handsome young man,The latter Shakespearean sonnets areaddressed to a dark lady of ill repute,Sonnet 20,1 A womans face with natures own hand painted, 2. Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; 3. A womans gentle heart, but not acquainted 4. With shifting change, as is false womens fashion: 5. An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, 6. Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; 7. A man in hue all hues in his controlling, 8. Which steals mens eyes and womens souls amazeth. 9. And for a woman wert thou first created; 10. Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, 11. And by addition me of thee defeated, 12. By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. 13. But since she prickd thee out for womens pleasure, 14. Mine be thy love and thy loves use their treasure,