Francis Bacon Essays 说文集 笔
Knowledge is powerBacon
Edmund Spencer Faerie Queen 仙
Our sweetest songs are those that sing of saddest feelings Spencer
William Shakespeare (15641616)
1 23rd April 1564 StratfordonAvon
2 His Father a leather merchant 皮货商
3 His school a local Grammar school for 6 years
4 His life dramatist actor poet proprietor
5 His first son Hamnet
6 4 tragedies Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth (Romeo and Juliet)
7 Main works 37 plays 154 sonnets 2 narrative plays
戏剧 14行诗 叙事诗
Titus Andronicus 泰特斯·安德洛尼克斯
Taming of the Shrew 驯悍记
The Two Gentlemen of Verona 维罗纳二绅士
Love's Labor's Lost 爱徒劳
A Midsummer Night's Dream 仲夏夜梦
King John 约翰王生逝世
Much Ado about Nothing 事生非
The Merry Wives of Windsor 温莎风流娘
Julius Caesar 朱力叶斯·凯撒
The Merchant of Venice 威尼斯商
As you like it 皆欢喜
8 Carl Marx Aeschylus and Shakespeare are the two greatest dramatic genius the world has ever known
9 His friend He does not belong to one time but belongs to all times
William Shakespeare's writing feature
1 A play in the play
2 Borrow plots from other stories such as Roman Greek and ancient myth
3 Several threads running through the play
4 Combination of tragic and comic elements
William Shakespeare's writing style
1 Tremendous vocabulary (16000 words invent words)
2 Literary devices (alliteration simile metaphor)
3 Use poetry in his play
William Shakespeare's humanistic ideas
1 Against cruelty and antinatural character of civil wars
2 Against religious persecution racial discrimination social inequality
3 Hates rebellion and despises democracy
Themes in Shakespeare's sonnets
1 Express love and praise to a young man
2 Immortalize beauty through verses
3 Friendship or betrayal of friendship
Sonnet
Origin Italy
Most famous and influential sonneteer Petrach
Selected Reading of Shakespeare
1 [P37] Shakespeare's Sonnet 18
a Ladies in the eyes of Shakespeare are not good and beautiful His wife is 8 years older than him
b Iambic pentameter
c Main ideas
i Quatrain 1 praise the beauty of the young man
ii Quatrain 2 changes in life and nature
iii Quatrain 3 your beauty will last forever
iv Couplet your beauty will live in my poem à Immortalize beauty
2 [P39] An Excerpt from The Merchant of Venice
a How does Shylock justify himself according to the accusation of Duke and Bassanio
[P4041] There are 3 reasons
b Why does Shylock stick to his bond instead of taking twice his principle
He hates the Christians and is determined to revenge on them because his daughter elopes with a Christian
c What do you think of Shylock in
the early court scene What about him later
In the early court scene Shylock is cruel eloquent stubborn tricky isolated from law and friendship
In the later court scene Shylock is greedy sympathetic and oppressed by Christians
d What is Shakespeare's attitude towards Shylock
He sympathizes those who are oppressed Antonio is oppressed by Shylock Shylock is oppressed by Christians
e The whole play is a tragicomedy In the scene Shylock is the tragic side Antonio and his friends is the comic side
John Donne (15721631)
1572 Born in a merchant family
1591 Learn law at the Inns of Court in London
Private Secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal
1601 29y Married Egerton's niece Ann More He worked hard to fight against poverty However it's a secret marriage When the marriage was exposed he was put into jail The Egertons regarded the marriage as an offence
1617 His wife died He devoted his time and efforts to his priestly duties writing sermons and religious poems
1621 Donne was appointed the Dean of St Paul's and kept the post until his death
John Donne's major work
1 Songs and Sonnets wrote before 1600 55 love poems
2 The Elegies and Satires his elegies wrote for love whereas others' wrote for mourning dead people
3 Holy Sonnets & Sermons Sonnets wrote about God sexual life problem of death and life Sermons are Christian preaching
John Donne is famed for 3 things
1 A great visitor of ladies
2 A great frequenter of plays
3 A great writer of conceited verses
At his time John Donne was famed as a preacher Today he is famed as a lyric poet John Donne compared parting love to compass flea compared to the union of lovers John Donne's conceit can be seen from his Go catching the falling star in which he listed many impossible thingsthe most impossible thing is a woman's faith and heart
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