文選 莎士比亞及其風格.pptx

1、The style of shakespeare,The real shakespeare,April 26, 1564 April 23, 1616,Married to Anne Hathaway on (most likely) December 2, 1582.,1583-84 Birth of ChildrenD.Susan S.Hamnet,In 1588,arrived in london， began to work as an actor and dramatist,1594 Golden time(3839),1611 retired and lived in Stratf

2、ord,othello,The Merchant of Venice,Hamlet,Twelfth night,Romeo and Juliet,Winters Tales,macbeth,King lear,Midsummer nights dream,As you like it,His famous works,Language StyleShakespeare wrote in verse. He used a style known as iambic(短長格的) pentameter (五音步詩行)for most of his plays. Iambic pentameter r

3、equires that each line has 10 syllables(音節(jié)). The syllables are five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables. The rhythm of each line is ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM. To use a line from Hamlet,“Is this / a dag- / -ger I / see be- / fore me?”Each beat (ba-BUM) represents a

4、 pair of syllables called an iambus(短長格). Shakespeare is considered a master of iambic pentameter, but he didnt invent it. It was around long before Shakespeare arrived on the scene and it remains a popular form of verse today.,Shakespeares Sonnet StyleShakespeare is considered a master of playwrigh

5、t, but he also wrote beautiful sonnets, or love poems. The structure of a sonnet is 14 lines. Each line contains a very concentrated expression of love in which the rhythm and rhyme, along with many metaphors, produce a significant amount of meaning. Poets in Elizabethan times found the sonnet the p

6、erfect vehicle to express to ladies how much they loved them. The sonnet was not only an expression of love; Elizabethan poets often used it as a way to display their poetic skills.Shakespeare was well aware of his great skill in writing sonnets and frequently joked about his abilities in his sonnet

7、s.,Poetic style After Hamlet, Shakespeare varied his poetic style further, particularly in the more emotional passages of the late tragedies. The literary critic A. C. Bradley described this style as “more concentrated, rapid, varied, and, in construction, less regular, not seldom twisted or ellipti

8、cal(簡要的). In the last phase of his career, Shakespeare adopted many techniques to achieve these effects,In Macbeth, for example, the language darts from one unrelated metaphor or simile to another: “was the hope drunk/ Where in you dressed yourself?” The listener is challenged to complete the sense. The late romances, with their shifts in time and surprising turns of plot, inspired a last poetic style in which long and short sentences are set against one another, cl