Melancholy（忧郁） – Father’s death His disappoint with his mother Impulsive （冲动）– When he stabs Polonius through a curtain without even checking who he is Looking down upon women – His words often indicate his disgust with all distrust of women in general Hesitation – He thinks a lot before action To be or not to be On finding out the murder
language. He used more than 16000 different words and enriched the English language with his own coinage.
He uses the English language the greatest freedom and ease, so that all the speeches fit all the characters that use them.
•哈姆雷特 哈姆雷特Hamlet 哈姆雷特
•克劳狄斯 克劳狄斯Claudius 克劳狄斯
乔特鲁德Gertrude 哈姆莱特之母
奥菲利亚Ophelia 波洛涅斯之女 奥菲利亚
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波洛涅斯Polonius （御前大臣） 御前大臣） 波洛涅斯 波洛涅斯之子） 雷欧提斯 （波洛涅斯之子） 霍拉旭（哈姆雷特之友） 霍拉旭（哈姆雷特之友） 多森格兰兹（朝臣）吉尔登斯吞（朝臣） 多森格兰兹（朝臣）吉尔登斯吞（朝臣） 奥斯克里（宫廷大臣） 奥斯克里（宫廷大臣）
Characteristics of Shakespeare’s Drama Shakespeare’s success as a great playwright chiefly rest on the following five aspects: 1) The progressive significance of his themes; 2) His successful character portrayal; 3)His master-hand in constructing plays; 4) The ingenuity of his poetry; 5)His mastery of English language.
Question ？
This is one of the most famous soliloquies of Hamlet’s. ▼ Soliloquy is the act of talking to oneself, whether silently or aloud. In drama it denotes the convention by which a character, alone on the stage, utters his or her thoughts aloud.
Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night’s Dream
《哈姆雷特》讲述了丹麦王子哈姆雷 特为父复仇的故事。哈姆雷特从父王的鬼魂 口中得知叔叔克劳地杀兄篡位的秘密，但却 一直犹豫该如何着手报仇。结果哈姆雷特误 杀未婚妻奥菲莉娅的父亲波洛涅斯，导致她 因此发疯坠河而死。他的母亲后来也误饮毒 酒身亡。优柔寡断的王子终于在怒不可遏之 下杀死万恶的叔叔。
poetry In his creation of dramas, he succeeded in combing the two sides of his talent— Shakespeare the poet and Shakespeare the dramatist—into one and produced the most remarkable poetic dramas in England or perhaps in the whole world. Shakespeare not only produced wonderful poetry in different forms, like songs, sonnets, rhymed couplets, and especially dramatic blank verse, he was also a master of prose of various styles, both effective and powerful.
The First Period ：In this period, he wrote the chronicle plays Henry VI and Richard III ；the crude tragedy of blood Titus Andronicus; and four comedies.
William Shakespeare
------(1564～1616)
●To be or not to be, that is a question. 个问题。 还 灭，这 个问题。 ●Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. 为聪 渔 ， 。 ●A light heart lives long. 达 长寿 ●Words , words, only words, no matter from the heart. 空话 空话，空话， 空话，没 真。 ● A little more than kin, and less than kind. 超乎寻常的亲族，漠不相关的路人。 超乎寻常的亲族，漠不相关的路人。——《哈姆雷特》 《哈姆雷特》 ● Nothing will come of nothing. 一无所有只能换来一无所有。——《李尔王》 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。 收起你们明晃晃的剑，它们沾了露水会生锈的。——《奥赛 《 罗》
He was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He left us a great wealth of 154 sonnets, 37 plays, including 14 comedies, 12 tragedies, and 11 historical plays, as well as two long poems.
constructing plays
Shakespeare is a master-hand for every form of drama—comedy, tragedy, and historical plays. Moreover, his tragedies may have comic elements, and his comedies include sardonic commentaries on human frailty. The action is developed freely, without being hindered by the rules of the classical unities (action, place and time).
themes Through his plays, he touched almost every aspects of human life, of human pleasures and human tragedies.
Moreover, he is perhaps the perfect expression of Renaissance humanism.
Four major periods of Shakespeare’s literary life
The First Period : The Experimental Period (1590～ 1594) The Second Period: The Period of Comedies and Histories (1595～1600) The Third Period: The Period of Tragedies(1601～ 1609) The Fourth Periodቤተ መጻሕፍቲ ባይዱ: The Period of Dramatic Romances (1609～1612)
Shakespeare’s Birthplace --He was born in this house on Henley Street in Stratford-on-Avon in April 23 ,1564.
Shakespeare’s Burial Site-----He died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, shown here.
character portrayal
In his 37 dramas, Shakespeare created a large group of lifelike characters who live and struggle, suffer and rejoice—representing all the complexities and implications of real life.