文档介绍：Shakespeare
By Tiger
Content
1. Life
2. A Chronological List of Shakespeare’s Plays
3. Periods of Shakespeare’s position
4. The Four edies
5. The Mature Histories
6. The Four Great Tragedies
7. The Poems
8. Features of Shakespeare’s Drama
9. Exercises
1. Life
English playwright William Shakespeare was born in this house on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564. Shakespeare’s father, John, purchased the building in two stages, in 1556 and 1572. Today, Shakespeare’s birthplace is a museum, furnished as it might have been in Shakespeare’s time. It also houses an exhibit on Shakespeare’s life.
A. Early years
1. Birth
2. Education
3. Marriage
4. Anecdote
B. Arrival in London
1. Social background
2. Shakespeare the Walk-on
3. Shakespeare the actor
4. Shakespeare the playwright and Robert Greene’s sneer
C. Actor and Playwright
The Globe Theatre, where dramatist William Shakespeare saw his plays performed 400 years ago, has been rebuilt near its original location on the south bank of the Thames River in London, England. The rebuilt theater opened in 1997 and offers performances of Shakespeare’s plays during the summer. Traditional materials were used in the rebuilding. A thatched roof covers the galleries where the audience sits, and the outer walls are made of lime plaster.
Globe Theatre Interior
Audience members at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London can sit on benches in one of the three covered galleries or stand in the open yard, just as audiences did in the original Globe Theatre of Shakespeare’s time. The projecting stage has a thatched roof and an elaborately decorated back wall. Large oak pillars, painted to look like marble, support a canopy, which has been painted to represent the heavens.
D. Last Years
Shakespeare’s Burial Site
England’s greatest playwright, William Shakespeare, died on April 23, 1616, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, shown here. His epitaph reads: Good friend for