▪ Poetry (5): ▪ The Sonnets ▪ A Lover’s Complaint ▪ The Rape of Lucrece ▪ Venus and Adonis ▪ Funeral Elegy by W.S. ▪ He also wrote 154 sonnets, two long
II. Introduction to William Shakespeare
Shakespeare (1564-1616)
▪ Will was born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England and died in 1616. He was one of the greatest poet and playwright, one of the founders of realism in world literature, and a great master of the English language. He
narrative poems, and several other poems. The popularity of Shakespeare is not confined to the English or European people only. His name has been known to the Chinese people for a hundred years. He is world famous.
▪ History (10): ▪ Henry IV, part 1 ▪ Henry IV, part 2 ▪ Henry V ▪ Henry VI, part 1 ▪ Henry VI, part 2 ▪ Henry VI, part 3 ▪ Henry VIII ▪ King John ▪ Richard II ▪ Richard III
Unit 3
Text Young William Shakespeare
I. Author
▪ Jennifer Bassett is an experienced teacher and the writer. She lives and works in the Devon , in the northwest of England. Jennifer is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library, for which she has written the original stories OneWay Ticket, The President's Murderer, The Phantom of the Opera, and William Shakespeare, along with many adaptations. She is series co-adviser, with H.G Widdowson, of the Oxford Bookworms Collection. Jennifer has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series
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▪ Comedy (17) : ▪ All’s Well That Ends Well ▪ As You Like It ▪ The Comedy of Errors ▪ Love’s Labours Lost ▪ Measure for Measure ▪ The Merry Wives of Windsor ▪ The Merchant of Venice ▪ A Midsummer Night’s Dream ▪ Much Ado About Nothing
was skilled in many poetic forms.
▪ He has been universally acknowledged to be the summit of the English Renaissance. Within about twenty-two years of his writing career, he gave to the world 38 plays, no two of which invoke the same feeling or image among the audience. He wrote lots of comedies, tragedies, histories and poetry. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.
▪ Pericles, Prince of Tyre ▪ Taming of the Shrew ▪ The Tempest ▪ Troilus and Cressida ▪ Twelfth Night ▪ Two Gentlemen of Verona ▪ Winter’s Tale
▪ Tragedy (10): ▪ Antony and Cleopatra ▪ Coriolanus ▪ Hamlet ▪ Julius Caesar ▪ King Lear ▪ Macbeth ▪ Othello ▪ Romeo and Juliet ▪ Timon of Athens ▪ Titus Andronicus
Pic. of some of Will’s comedies
Pic. of some of Will’s tragedies
III. Structure of the Text