文档介绍：Midsummer Night’s Dream
William
Presented by Jolly Tan
Content
* Background
* Author
* Main Characters
* Role Relationship
* Analysis
* Plot Summary
* My Views
A Midsummer Night‘s Dream (仲夏夜之梦) is a edy by William Shakespeare written sometime in the 1590s. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian [ə'θi:njən] lovers and a group of amateur actors in a moonlit forest, and their interactions(互相交流) with the fairies who inhabit it and Duke(公爵) [dju:k, du:k]of the Athenians. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular and is widely performed across the world.
Background
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English poet and playwright(剧作家), widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world‘s pre-eminent ['eminənt](杰出的) dramatist.
He is often called England‘s national poet and the “Bard(吟游诗人) of Avon(埃文河,英国西南部一河)".
His surviving works, including some collaborations(协作)[kə,læbə'reiʃən] , consist of about 38 plays,154 s, two long narrative(叙述)poems, and several other poems.
His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwrights .
Between 1585 and 1592, he began a essful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a pany called the Lord Chamberlain's ['tʃeimbəlin]Men, later known as the King's Men.
He appears to have retired to Stratford['strætfəd]around 1613, where he died three years later.
Author
Lysander
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Hermia
Helena
Demetrius
Hermia’s father
Oberon
Puck
Titania
Her father Egeus
Hermia
Lysander