Brief introduction to the poet: Shakespeare's creative peak is marked by four tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Hamlet is the best tragedy in the world, and the protagonist Hamlet has become one of the most complicated literary models. In his later years, Shakespeare turned to writing magic plays, hoping for a utopian ideal world. His works include cymbeline and The Tempest.

Selected Works: Selected Works of Shakespeare;

Poetry as a mask

Author: muriel Rukeyser

When I write about women's dance and wildness, it is a mask.

On their mountains, gold panning, singing and reveling,

This is a mask; When I write about God,

Fragmented, exiled, his life, his love disappeared with the song dynasty,

That's me, cracked, unable to speak, exiled by myself.

There are no mountains, no gods, only memories.

My torn life, my own split in sleep, the saved child

Among the doctors next to me, there is another sentence

Saved from great eyes.

No more masks! No more myths!

Now, God raised his hand for the first time,

These fragments blend into me with their own music.

Selected Poems of Shakespeare 2:

The poet of bray

John Heath stubbs

Back to the dear thirties

When politics is passion.

I am a harmless left-wing poet.

So I grew up in fashion:

Although I never really joined.

Party of the masses

I am very close to her.

Proletarians.

This is the direction I will always grasp.

Until the stars go dark, sir.

No matter how the taste changes

I will keep up with the trend, sir.

But with the tide of war sweeping through

I became the apocalypse:

Symbols, myths and archetypes

My poem became obscure;

I swear with new romantic enthusiasm

Auden is a fake, sir,

Discovered Nicky Moore's mind

More interesting than Blake, sir.

The white knight on the new road has run away

But the taste needs to be improved:

I turned to meet the rising sun.

So I joined the movement!

Shiny, ambiguous

In villanelles, I showed off:

I agree with Dr. Reeves,

When he sneezed, I snorted.

But seeing John Wax may also decline.

I left that one-way street, sir;

I changed my style again,

Now I'm a beat, sir:

So, my soul was defeated.

Into an invisible jelly:

I now set my poem to jazz.

Watch it on TV.

Permanent nonconformist I

This is how I want to stay.

The angriest young man alive

(Although my hair has turned gray)

In my anger, I will not be soft.

No, not for a minute

Against al Qaeda

Unless, of course, I am one of them.

This is the direction I will always grasp.

Until the stars go dark, sir.

No matter how the taste changes

I will keep up with the trend, sir.

Character evaluation:17th century. Contemporary people are the masters of the drama world. Jonson praised him. Who is he? The soul of the times? . Say him? Don't belong to an era, but to a thousand generations? . 17 and 18 century English classicist Dryden thinks? Shakespeare has a great heart. He can understand all characters and passions. ?

19th century, after the rise of romanticism and realism, Shakespeare swept Europe. Hugo, Stendhal and others held high the banner of Shakespeare and advocated the spirit of Shakespeare in the struggle against classicism. Hugo said? The arrival of Shakespeare's genius makes art, science, philosophy or the whole society look brand-new. His brilliance shines on all mankind, from one end of the times to the other. ? The hurricane movement in Germany is also singing Shakespeare's hymns and carrying his flag forward. Goethe said: I read his first page and let me belong to him all my life. After reading the first book, I was like a born blind man. A strange hand made my eyes see the light again in an instant, thanks to the gods who gave me wisdom. ? Balzac, Dickensian, Pushkin, Turgenev, etc. All follow the example of Shakespeare's works. Pushkin believes that Shakespeare has the great quality of being close to the people. Duborolyubov regards Shakespeare as? A ray of light in dark kingdom? He said? Several new stages of human development are pointed out. what's up The best representative of the highest stage of human understanding? , his works? Show the fullest moral ideal. ? Belinsky worships Shakespeare very much. He wrote in The Fantasy of Literature:? Shakespeare, the sacred and noble Shakespeare, knows hell, earth and heaven like the back of his hand. He is the master of nature and has passed his eye of inspiration. I saw the pulse of the universe. Each of his plays is a microcosm of the world. It includes the present, the past and the future. ?

Goethe, the great German poet, pointed out when talking about Shakespeare. What interests Shakespeare's great mind is the things in our world: because although magic factors such as prophecy, madness, nightmares, premonitions, omens, fairies, ghosts, rare spirits and magicians are interspersed in his poems at the right time, these illusory images are not the main components of his works, but the truth and subtlety in his life are the great foundation of these works, so everything in his hands comes from him. ?

Shakespeare's position in Marx's mind is also unique. No other writer can compare with it. In Marx's works, only from the quantitative point of view, there are as many as three or four hundred quotations or talks about Shakespeare. So some people say that in the process of scientific research, Shakespeare is always Marx's best companion. He provided examples, models and historical contents for Marx's scientific theory and the embryonic form and trend of capitalist social development, and provided a lot of vivid arguments for revolutionary theory. It even coincides with the beautiful ideal of the future of mankind. It's basically the same.

Engels pointed out in the article Landscape written in his youth:? No matter where the plot in his play takes place in Italy, France or Navarra, it will always be the hometown of the eccentric civilians, clever teachers and lovely but eccentric women he described, merryEngland (English: Happy Britain); In short, you will see that these plots can only happen under the British sky. Only a few comedies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, have the same characters as those in Romeo and Juliet, which makes people feel influenced by the south and its climate. ?

Literary achievements: Shakespeare's plays are mostly based on old scripts, novels, chronicles or folklore, but they have been rewritten with their own ideas, giving new, rich and profound contents to the old themes. In artistic expression, he inherited and developed the three traditions of ancient Greek and Roman drama, medieval England and Renaissance European drama, and made creative innovations in content and form. His plays are not bound by the three laws, break through the boundary between tragedy and comedy, strive to reflect the true nature of life, and dig deep into the inner mysteries of characters, thus shaping many typical characters with complex and diverse personalities and vivid images, and depicting a broad and colorful picture of social life, which is famous for its profoundness, poetry and philosophy. Shakespeare's plays are popular plays written for the British stage and audience at that time. Therefore, in the18th century, it was criticized by the classicists represented by Voltaire, and was arbitrarily deleted during the performance, because it was a blend of sadness and joy, appealing to both refined and popular tastes, and free in time and space, trying to mobilize the imagination of the audience and make up for the simplicity of the stage. It was not until the beginning of19th century that the real value of Shakespeare's plays began to be known under the discussion of critics such as Coleridge and Khazri. However, Shakespeare's performances at that time were still often included in the model of five-act drama. 19 end, w? Bohr and h? Glanville? Pearl S. Buck strongly opposed the spectacular tradition of Shakespeare's plays at that time, and advocated performing in Elizabethan theaters without scenery to restore its inherent characteristics.

Since the beginning of17th century, Shakespeare's plays have been introduced to Germany, France, Italy, Russia and Northern Europe, and then gradually spread to the United States and even the rest of the world, which has had a great and far-reaching impact on the development of drama in various countries and has become an important link and source of inspiration for the development and exchange of world culture. China began to introduce and translate Shakespeare's plays at the beginning of this century. 1902, students from St. John's College in Shanghai performed The Merchant of Venice in English for the first time. The Complete Works of Shakespeare is based on Zhu Shenghao's translation and published in 1 1 volume. According to incomplete statistics, there are 65 professional and amateur performing groups in China, which have performed 265,438+0 Shakespeare plays, including most of his important works, in five languages: English, Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Cantonese, in six forms: civilized drama, modern drama, traditional drama, radio drama, ballet and puppet show. Shakespeare's plays have become the teaching materials of middle schools, universities, especially drama schools in China. The important role of Shakespeare's plays has opened up a vast world for the cultivation and improvement of actors in China.

Shakespeare left 37 plays to the world, including some general plays that he co-wrote with others.

Shakespeare is second to none among all literary figures. Few people talk about Chaucer, Virgil or even Homer today, but if Shakespeare's plays are to be staged, there will definitely be a large audience. Shakespeare's genius in writing is unparalleled, and his words are often quoted-even those who have never seen or read his plays. Besides, his fame is not a flash in the pan. In the past 400 years, his works have brought a lot of joy to readers and critics. As Shakespeare's works have stood the test of time, it is reasonable to speculate that they will be widely welcomed in many centuries to come.

When evaluating Shakespeare's influence, readers should take into account that without him, his works would not exist at all (of course, a similar statement applies to every literary figure, but this factor is not particularly important when evaluating the influence of ordinary artists).

According to statistics, Shakespeare used more than 20 thousand words. It widely uses folk languages (such as folk songs, slang, old proverbs and humorous sketches). ), paying attention to absorbing foreign words, and using metaphors, metaphors and puns extensively, can be described as the masterpiece of English at that time. Many sentences in Shakespeare's plays have become idioms, allusions and aphorisms in modern English. Relatively speaking, his early plays like to use gorgeous and sonorous words; The later mature works are more handy, which can not only vividly express the characteristics of different characters in rich and varied languages, but also convey exciting feelings and thoughts in simple and natural words.

Although Shakespeare wrote in English, he was indeed a world-famous figure. Although English is not a complete world language, it is closer to the world language than any other language. In addition, Shakespeare's works have been translated into many literary works, and many countries have read his works and staged his plays.

Shakespeare and World Book and Copyright Day: April 23rd is a symbolic day for the world literature field, because William? Shakespeare died on 16 16. The UNESCO General Conference held in Paris from 65438 to 0995 chose this day to pay tribute to books and authors all over the world. Encourage everyone, especially teenagers, to find the pleasure of reading, and once again pay tribute to those who have made irreplaceable contributions to promoting human social and cultural progress. 1995165438+10 In October, the 28th General Conference of UNESCO passed a resolution declaring April 23rd as World Book and Copyright Day.