哈姆雷特
李尔王
奥赛罗
麦克白
History plays（sometimes known as chronicle plays ）----a highly popular form of drama in Shakespeare’s time. Shakespeare wrote ten plays listed in the 1623 Folio .Eight of them re-create the period in English history from 1399
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
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Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. (ƒ 起你们 剑，它们 会 锈 。——《奥赛罗》 )
Shakespeare’s Birthplace --He was born in this house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 23 ,1564.
To be or not to be, that is a question.
还 灭，这 渔 ， 个问题。） 。）
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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.(—j为聪 A light heart lives long.（ 达 长寿） Words , words, only words, no matter from the heart.（空话，空话， 空话，没 真。） The course of true love never did run smooth. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 真爱
Shakespeare’s 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 celebrate human social life even as they expose human folly. By means that are sometimes humiliating, even painful, characters learn greater wisdom and emerge with a clearer view of reality.

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 Shakespeare’s triumph in the field of high comedy.
Early Comedies (until about 1595 )-- reflect in their gaiety and exuberant ( 丰 富 的 ) language the lively and self-confident tone of the English nation after 1588 。 --The Comedy of Errors Middle Comedies --A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Merchant of Venice from the mid-1590s provide evidence of Shakespeare’s growing mastery of the comic form and his willingness to explore and test its dramatic possibilities.
（1564—1616）
English playwright and poet——one 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.
Sonnet 20
1 A woman's face with nature's own hand painted, 2. Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion; 3. A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted 4. With shifting change, as is false women's 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 men's eyes and women's 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 prick'd thee out for women's pleasure, 14. Mine be thy love and thy love's use their treasure
William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.
the first 126 Shakespearean sonnets to a handsome young man
The latter Shakespearean sonnets are addressed to a 'dark lady' of ill repute
途。 ——《 梦》
Love is merely a madness.
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（爱
过
种疯狂。——《皆大欢
It is a wise father that knows his own child.（
为 。——《 尼 ， —《 关 》) 》） (Š¦Œã寻 亲 。— 。——《 》)
A little more than kin, and less than kind.