Part 2 The English Renaissance A Chronological List

Part 2 The English Renaissance A Chronological List of Shakespeare’s Plays Pair Work How many literary periods?

Part 2 The English Renaissance Discussion The features of the four periods: 1) early apprenticeship 2) growth and maturity 3) great tragedies and dark comedies

Part 2 The English Renaissance The 3 rd Period of Gloom and Sadness The comedies written in the third period are dark because they give ______ somber known as ______ pictures of the world. vulgarest(最普遍的) reality: mean(卑鄙自私), low motives, mere wanton(奢侈享乐的荡妇) carnal(好色的) lust class pride blood-proud, unfaithful, vicious, nauseating(另人作呕的) personality, trick

Part 2 The English Renaissance The 3 rd Period of Gloom and Sadness (1601— 1607) • Three pure and saintlike figures Isabella, Volumnia and Cordelia rise: _______________. • But the world around them is a foul (evil) vice cauldron(大锅) of _____. wide • Shakespeare’s reading is _____and ______. varied

Part 2 The English Renaissance The 4 th Period of Romantic Drama(1608 -12) 4 romances or “reconciliation plays”(和谐剧) and 1 historical play All should a great peacefulness of light and be well in a harmony of earth and heaven the end. Calm and reconciliation: the change of life and mood in the later years of Shakespeare placed his hopes and aspiration (理想, 目标) with the future of mankind.

G. Comedies Contents G. Tragedies Later Plays Pa rt 2: En gli sh Re na is s an ce Part 2 The English Renaissance Paper Writing

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Great Comedies 4 comedies:

Part 2 The English Renaissance Chapter 6 Shakespeare Student’s Presentation Shakespeare’s Four Comedies

Part 2 The English Renaissance Themes of 1) Love ultimately triumphs in The moral: the end. Dare to presents dream and your陷阱, 危险 dream. 2) Love pitfalls will. Appearances come true—or least you 3) areatdeceiving. will. Father have fun and life. 4) does notenjoy always know best. 5) Dream the impossible dream. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Part 2 The English Renaissance Themes of 1) Prejudice and intolerance. 2) Humanity and inhumanity. 3) Law, mercy and revenge. 4) Greed vs. generosity. 5) Love and friendship. The Merchant of Venice

Part 2 The English Renaissance Themes of 1) Loyalty between brothers, lovers, friends 2) The regeneration of society through the affirmation of certain Christian values such as brotherly love, marital union, tolerance for different views, and optimism about life at large As You Like It

Part 2 The English Renaissance Themes of 1)It presents different kinds of love filled with joy and pain. 2)It explores the difference between appearance and reality. 3)The idea of a woman is the head of the house. Twelfth Night Back

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Great Tragedies 4 tragedies:

Part 2 The English Renaissance Third Period of Gloom and Sadness (1601— 1607) • great tragedies and dark comedies: p. 65 • aggravated (加重) tragic note (tone), • influenced by social upheavals • England, ill at ease (不安定的) Background • the Crown, absolutist专制主义者, co-operation • In the atmosphere of general unrest, that Shakespeare exposed mercilessly the complicated social contradictions.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Tragedies of Gloom and Sadness 4 tragedies:

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s 4 Tragedies Student’s Presentation

Part 2 The English Renaissance The 3 rd Period of Gloom and Sadness murder, lust(不纯洁的欲望), treachery(背叛), ingratitude(忘恩负义) and crime a mass of evil Hamlet: hesitations, suspenses, revenge Macbeth: traitor-couple murder Othello: cheats of Iago 埃古, King Lear: death of Desdemona his 3 daughters ingratitude of Goneril, Rogan. the death of Cordelia

Part 2 The English Renaissance An Analysis of Hamlet 1. Key facts 2. Major characters 3. Themes 4. Symbols

Part 2 The English Renaissance Key Facts of Hamlet 1. Full title: Hamlet p. 84 2. Genre: tragedy, revenge tragedy 3. Source: Old Danish legend pirated, 1603, (p. 85) 4. Publication: superior, 1604 5. Settings: 1) Time ~: late medieval period 2) Place ~: Denmark

Part 2 The English Renaissance An Analysis of Characters 1. Hamlet 2. Claudius 3. Gertrude 4. Polonius 5. Ophelia 6. Laertes

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet Student’s Presentation What is the character of Hamlet?

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet hardly intelligible(可理解的) 1. neither frail(脆弱的)and weakminded(优柔寡断的) youth nor a thought-sick(思想病态的) book-worm • Though he is deprived of his right to the throne, Hamlet is loved and respected by everyone.

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet The courtier’s , soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword; 锐利的眼力、语言和刀剑； The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 国家的期望和花朵， The glass of fashion, and the mould of form… 时尚的镜子，礼貌的典范。

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet 3. His intellectual genius is outstanding. He is a close observer of men and manners. A mass of evils: murder, lust, treachery, ingratitude and crime “Denmark is a prison. ” p. 87

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet 4. The key-note of Hamlet’s character is melancholy , and there can be no Hamlet without melancholy.

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet Summary: (p. 87) 1)not scholar; He is aa mere scholar, soldier and 2)meditative statesman. (thoughtful); 3)genius; His imageaccomplished reflects the (talented); 4)far-reaching(深远的， versatility of the men of the 广泛的)； 5)sparkling (才华横溢的) Renaissance.

Part 2 The English Renaissance The Character of Hamlet • Hamlet is a hero of the Renaissance. (p. 89) Hamlet’s learning , wisdom, noble nature, limitation and tragedy are all representative of the humanists at the turn of the 16 th and the 17 th centuries.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters：Claudius • The King of Denmark, • Hamlet’s uncle, • the play’s antagonist, • the villain of the play.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Claudius • Claudius is a calculating有计谋的, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows signs of guilt and human feeling—his love for Gertrude, for instance, seems sincere.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Gertrude • Gertrude - The Queen of Denmark, Hamlet’s mother, recently married to Claudius. • Gertrude loves Hamlet deeply, but she is a shallow, weak woman who seeks affection and status more urgently than moral truth.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Polonius • the father of Laertes and Ophelia. • The Lord Chamberlain 管务大臣of Claudius’s court, a pompous浮夸的, conniving纵容的 old man.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Ophelia • Ophelia - Polonius’s daughter, a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. • Ophelia is a sweet and innocent girl, who obeys her father and her brother, Laertes.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Ophelia • Dependent on men to tell her how to behave, Ophelia gives in to Polonius’s schemes to spy on Hamlet. • Even in her lapse into陷入 madness and death, she remains maidenly, singing songs about flowers and finally drowning in the river amid the flower garlands花环 she had gathered.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Laertes • Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother, • a young man who spends much of the play in France. • Passionate and quick to action

Part 2 The English Renaissance Other Characters: Ghost • The Ghost - The specter幽灵 of Hamlet’s recently deceased已逝去的 father. • The ghost, who claims to have been murdered by Claudius, calls upon Hamlet to avenge him.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Symbols: the skull 1. death’s inevitability必然性 and the disintegration分解 of the body 2. every human body’s eventual decay Polonius will be eaten by worms, that even kings are eaten by worms. 3. Decayed and disintegrated nation 瓦解了的

Part 2 The English Renaissance Themes of Hamlet 1. The Impossibility of Certainty 2. The Complexity of Action 3. The Mystery of Death 4. The Nation as a Diseased Body 1) Incest乱伦 and Incestuous Desire 2) Misogyny厌女症 3) Madness Back

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Later Comedies 《冬天的故事》 《波里克里斯》 《暴风雨》 《辛柏林》

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Later Works Group work How much do you know about Shakespeare’s Later comedies?

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Later Comedies 1. Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion. • A. 1590 and 1594 • B. 1595 and 1600 • C. 1601 and 1607 • D. 1608 and 1612 D

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Later Comedies 2. Miranda, Prospero and Ferdinand are the main characters in Shakespeare’s _____. • A. Pericles • B. Cymbeline • C. The Winter’s Tale • D. The Tempest D

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Later Comedies 3. Shakespeare’s most typical play in his later years is ______. • A. The Winter’s Tale • B. The Tempest • C. Pericles • D. Cymbeline B

Part 2 The English Renaissance Shakespeare’s Later Comedies • Shakespeare’s later plays have tragicomic nature, often starts in difficulties and ends in reconciliation and reunion with the emphasis of a renewal of hope, sometimes called romances. Back

Part 2 The English Renaissance Paper Writing • • Title: 名词短语式 作者 班级；学号 Abstract: purpose and importance, main idea, conclusion • Key Words: names characters colors • (3— 5, 空 2格)

Part 2 The English Renaissance Paper Writing Introduction: 3 paragraphs • Importance • Literature Review • What the paper is going to discuss Topic 1 Symbolism 1 Names 2 Colors 3 Plants Conclusion Topic 2 Structure 3. 1 Sentence Structure 3. 2 Narrative Structure

Part 2 The English Renaissance Paper Writing: Notes • （作者 年份：页码），如（梅·弗里德曼 1992： 166） • e. g. Shakespeare is a great literary figure in the English Renaissance. He “used about 16, 000 words”(Liu Pingshan 2000: 92) in his plays.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Paper Writing: Bibliography Bennett, Joan. George Eliot: Her Mind and Her Art [M]. London: Cambridge University Press, 1948. Qingzong, Zhang. The Affective and Cognitive Effect of Pictures in Reading Comprehension [J]. English Studies, 2003(1): 6. • 或 2003(1). 注意：一个文献书目需要移行时，需要空 4个格。

Part 2 The English Renaissance Assignments 1. Work on the internet, trying to Write a paper on one of his plays within 2000 words. 2. Try to act one of the plays.

Part 2 The English Renaissance Goodbye.