英国文学史 莎士比亚 William Shakespeare(1564-1616)

Theme
• Eternal love and beauty
Sonnet 29
This is one of his more ambiguous sonnets: one does not know who the speaker is referring to or if the word "love" in this sonnet refers to a romantic love or a platonic love.
Two Narrative Poems Venus and Adonis 《维纳斯和阿多尼斯 》 The Rape of Lucrece
• 《露易丝受辱记 》
Sonnet 18
• Sonnet 18, often alternately titled Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?, is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English poet William Shakespeare.
Hyperbole （夸张）
• Hyperbole （exaggeration) is any rhetorical device or figure of speech that employs exaggeration. It may be used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression, but is not meant to be taken literally.
Theme
• Its theme involves the vulnerability of the narrator's disposition and the power of love.
Pun (双关语）
• The pun is a form of word play word which exploits numerous meanings of a statement, allowing it to be understood in multiple ways for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect
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Then there was the man in the restaurant. • “ You are not eating your fish,” the waitress said to him. • ‘Anything wrong with you ?” • “ Long time no see,”the
structure
• Sonnet 18 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet. It consists of three quatrains followed by a couplet , and has the characteristic rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.
Shakespeare‟s Sonnets • Shakespeare's sonnets deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in a 1609 collection.
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The bag weighed a ton. I tried a thousand times. For she was beautiful----her beauty made the bright world dim. and everything beside seemed like the fleeting image of a shade.
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Structure
• The sonnet contains fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter, It is composed of three rhyming quatrains with a rhyming couplet at the end and follows the traditional English rhyme scheme of ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
• “fourth floor,” shouted the passenger to the elevator. • “Here you are, son.” • “How dare you call me „son‟”? • “Sir, I called ,or whatever, I have brought you up , anyway
His Major Plays
• I. 1590-1600 • comedies (keynote: optimism) • Henry VI; Henry IV; Julius Caesar; A Mid-Summer Night‘s Dream; Twelfth Night; Much Ado about Nothing; The Merchant of Venice; The Merry Wives of Windsor; Romeo and Juliet • II. 1601-1608: A series of tragedies Key-note: pessimism; merciless exposure Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth • III.1609-1612 Comedies (Key-note: conciliation) The Tempest •
William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
He was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's preeminent dramatist.