THANK YOU
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 wander'st 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.
Shakespeare’s works have made a lasting impression on later theatre and literature. His writing is widely regarded as one of the three main sources of the English literature, while the other two are Greek and Roman myths and the Bible. In Shakespeare’s day, English grammar and spelling were less standardised than they are now, and his use of language helped shape modern English.
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rich philosophy of life, profound knowledge and deep thought about human nature. rgarded as the greatest achievements of his dramatic artistry his unforgettable tragic characters, such as Romeo , Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
OLD ENGLISH
Hwæt! Wē Gār-Dena in ġeārdagum, þēod-cyninga, þrym ġefrūnon, hū ðā æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Sċyld Sċefing sċeaþena þrēatum, monegum mǽgþum, meodo-setla oftēah, egsode eorlas, syððan ǽrest wearð fēasċeaft funden; hē þæs frōfre gebād, wēox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þāh, oðþæt him ǽġhwylc þāra ymbsittendra ofer hron-rāde hýran scolde, gomban gyldan. Þæt wæs gōd cyning. ——《Beowulf 》

Shakespeare’s Language
A mix of old and new Rural and urban words Understandable by the lowest peasant and the higher
Thee=you
生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题；默然忍受命运的 暴虐的毒箭，或是挺身反抗人世的无涯的苦难，通过斗争把 它们扫清，这两种行为，哪一种更高贵？死了；睡着了；什 么都完了；要是在这一种睡眠之中，我们心头的创痛，以及 其他无数血肉之躯所不能避免的打击，都可以从此消失，那 正是我们求之不得的结局。
Influence
William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
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Shakespeare’s Works
154 sonnets
2 long poems
Comedies
十四行诗
38 plays
Tragedies History plays Tragicomedies
HIS TRAGEDIES




我怎么能够把你来比作夏天？ 你不独比它可爱也比它温婉 狂风把五月宠爱的嫩蕊作践 夏天出凭的期限由未免太短 天上的眼睛有时照得太酷烈 它那炳耀的金颜又常遭掩蔽 被机缘或无常的天道所摧折 没有芳艳不终于凋残或销毁 但是你的长夏永远不会凋落 也不会损失你这皎洁的红芳 或死神夸口你在他的影里漂泊 当你在不朽的诗里与时同长 只要有人类，或人有眼睛 这诗将长存，并赐给你生命

Well-known Comedies
Histories
2 Henry VI 3 Henry VI 1 Henry VI Richard III Richard II

King John 1 Henry IV 2 Henry IV Henry V Henry VIII

Shakespeare’s Poetry
Poetry
Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece

`A Lover's Complaint' The Passionate Pilgrim The Phoenix and The Turtle

十四行诗 十八 The sonnet18
Four Great Tragedies
Hamlet(1601) 哈姆雷特
Othello(1604) 奥赛罗 King Lear(1605) 李尔王 Macbeth(1606) 麦克白
HIS COMEDIES

His comedies celebrate human social life even if they expose human folly . By means of something humiliating （ degrade ） , even painful, characters learn greater wisdom and have a clearer view of reality.

The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商人 A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏夜之梦 Twelfth Night 第十二夜 As You Like It 皆大欢喜 All’s Well That Ends Well 终成眷属 Much Ado about Nothing 无事生非

Hamlet’s soliloquy

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,— No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;—