文档介绍：1. William Shakespeare
《维纳斯与阿多尼斯》《路克丽丝的被奸》:两首叙事长诗题献给南安普敦伯爵。
喜剧生涯第一阶段:五部历史剧:《亨利六世》上中下、《理查三世》《泰特斯。安装尼克斯》;四部喜剧:《错中错》《维罗纳二绅士》《驯悍记》《空爱一场》
第二阶段:五部历史剧:《查理二世》《约翰王》《亨利四世》上下《亨利五世》;六部喜剧:《仲夏夜之梦》《威尼斯商人》《无事生非》《皆大欢喜》《第十二夜》《温莎的风流娘们儿》;两部悲剧:《罗密欧与朱丽叶》《裘利斯。凯撒》
第三阶段:悲剧:《哈姆雷特》《奥赛罗》《李尔王》《麦克佩斯》《安东尼与克里奥特佩拉》《特洛伊勒斯与克莱希达》《考利欧雷诺斯》;两部喜剧:《终成眷属》《恶有恶报》
最后一个阶段:包括他主要的浪漫悲喜剧《波里克利斯》《新柏林》《冬天的故事》《暴风雨》;他最后的两个剧本《亨利八世》《二位高贵的亲戚》
William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis The Rape of Lucrece: both of which were dedicated to the Earl of Southampton.
The 1st period of Shakespeare’s dramatic career: 5 history plays: Henry VI, Parts I, II and III, Richard III and Titus Andronicus; and edies: edy of Errors, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and Love’s Labour’s Lost
2nd period, 5 histories: Richard II, King John, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V; edies: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merry Wives of Windsor; and two tragedies: Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar
3rd period: Tragedies: Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth Antony and Cleopatra Troilus and Cressida Coriolanus; edies: All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
Last period: includes his principal romantic edies: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest; and his two final plays: Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen
Henry IV Parts I and II are undoutedly the most widely read among his history plays. It reveals a troubled reign in the 15th century. Shakespeare presents the patriotic spirit when mourning over the loss of English territories in France. He also dramatizes the class struggle between the oppressors and the oppressed during Jake Cade’s rising of 1450. He condemns the War of the Roses waged by the feudal barons in which innocent people were killed.
The Merchant of Venice is the most important play among edies, in which Shakespeare has created tension, armbiguity, a self-conscious and self-delighting artifice that is at