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England 's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " William Shakespeare

England 's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " William Shakespeare. 1564 – 1616. Early life. 1564 ： born in Stratford-upon-Avon 1582 ： married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway. Shakespeare's lost years. 1585 -1592

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England 's national poet and the " Bard of Avon " William Shakespeare

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  1. England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"William Shakespeare 1564–1616

  2. Early life • 1564：born in Stratford-upon-Avon • 1582：married the 26-year-old Anne Hathaway

  3. Shakespeare's lost years • 1585 -1592 • fled the town for London to escape prosecution for deer poaching • started his theatrical career minding the horses of theatre patrons in London

  4. London and theatrical career • 1592-1605 • 1592：plays were on the London stage • 1596：only son, Hamnet died of unknown causes • 1598：a selling point

  5. Later years and death • 1606-1616 • wrote fewer plays, and none are attributed to him after 1613 • buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church

  6. Plays • four periods • Until the mid-1590s：comedies and history plays • 1595-1599：greatest comedies and histories • 1600-1608：tragic period • 1608-1613： tragicomedies called romances

  7. Famous comedies • A Midsummer Night's Dream • The Merchant of Venice • Much Ado About Nothing • The Tempest

  8. Famous tragedies • Hamlet • Othello • King Lear • Macbeth

  9. Poems • Sonnets ：the last of Shakespeare's non-dramatic works to be printed • a profound meditation on the nature of love, sexual passion, procreation, death, and time "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate...“ Sonnet 18

  10. Influence • a lasting impression on later theatre and literature • expanded the dramatic potential of characterisation, plot, language, and genre • influenced novelists such as Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner and Charles Dickens • shape modern English

  11. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to showTo whom all scenes of Europe homage owe.He was not of an age, but for all time! ~Ben Jonson

  12. ~Thanks for your attention~ http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGATTeg1Os http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=S8Osse7w9fs&feature=related

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