从《仲夏夜之梦》看莎士比亚的爱情观

Abstract

"A midsummer night's dream" is one of the most romantic comedies in Shakespeare's plays, its main characteristic of his thought is against the feudal marriage,shows the pursuit of free love and the freedom of marriage. Shakespeare skillfully sets circumstances,and makes the atmosphere of suspense through the myth manufacturing, and finally makes everyone get the happiness of love. This drama mainly pay attention to the creations of female images who are always fighting against difficulties to pursue of free love.All these images express Shakespeare’s pursuit of love, and shows a view of humanism love which is full of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Key words:Shakespeare;the view of humanism love;free love;the happiness of love.

摘要

《仲夏夜之梦》是莎士比亚戏剧中最富浪漫主义色彩的喜剧，其主要的思想特征是反抗封建的婚姻，追求自由恋爱以及自由婚姻。莎士比亚巧设情节，通过神话制造悬念，最后使每个人都获得了幸福的爱情。莎士比亚在戏剧中主要注重塑造追求自由恋爱的女性形象，寄托了自己对美好爱情的追求，同时表现了一种自由、平等、博爱的人文主义爱情观。

关键词：莎士比亚；人文主义爱情观；自由恋爱；美好爱情

Contents Introduction (1)

I.Basic Information of the author (1)

II.Introduction of the book (2)

III. Introduction of Shakespeare’s View of Love (2)

IV.Shakespeare’s View of Love Expressed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (3)

Conclusion (4)

Bibliography (5)

Analysis of Shakespeare’s View of Love from

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Introduction

William Shakespeare is one of the greatest dramatists during the period of the European Renaissance,he plays a very important role in the world history of literature and in the history of drama. The age in which he lived was the age of Renaissance in Europe, humanism was the main thought weapon. And Shakespeare's works brightly manifested the characteristic of humanism literature,he reached a high level in thought as well as art, which brought the European humanism literature to the peak.

"A midsummer night's dream" is one of his famous comedies.And it is also one of his typical works to express the humanism love.

The paper aims at analysing the reflect of his view of humanism love in "A midsummer night's dream".

I.Basic Information of the author

William Shakespeare was born on April 23,1564 in Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire.There is no official record of Shakespeare’s schooling,but it is widely believed that he attended the local grammar school and read widely. William Shakespeare is one of the greatest dramatists during the period of the European Renaissance.He has great contribution to the humanism.The humanism ideal, equality, fraternity, humanitarian thoughts and the praise for youth, friendship and love which reflect in his works are of great practical significance in today's society. In Shakespeare's masterpiece, the creation of his drama is his main achievements.Among them, the song of love is the basic major themes of Shakespeare's dramas. Shakespeare’s dramas about love are mainly reflected in some comedies, their contents are colorful, some are from the long Italian stories, some use ancient works, and some come from folklore. In these dramas, the basic theme is to sing for love and friendship,and the basic mode is that a pair of lovers or two young men and women fall in love with each other at first sight,we all know that true love never run smooth, so they have to come over all obstacles and finally go through all of them well that ends well,those stories happen in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like it",