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Education :He ent to the local Grammar School and learned the ′small Latin and less Greek ′which Ben Jonson attributed to him

William Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare
  • 1.Year of birth :1564. 4.23
  • 2.Year of death :1616.4.23
  • 3.Place of birth :Stratford -on-Avon
  • 4. Education :He ent to the local Grammar School and learned the ′small Latin and less Greek ′which Ben Jonson attributed to him
  • 5.Marriage: Anne Hathawa in 1585
    • Have a daughter and a set of twins
  • 6.Went to London :Round about 1580s he went to London
  • 7. Begin writing and acting: about 1590
  • 8.Shakespeare 's Long poems
    • two narrative poems
      • Venus and Adonis （1588）
      • The Rape of Lucrece(1594)
  • 9. Shakespeare's profession
    • artist
    • poet
      • lyriccs poem
      • sonnet
    • playwright
    • businessman
      • built the largest open-air amphithreatre-- Globe Threatre
    • entrepreneur
      • estate investment
  • Shakespeare 's sonnet
    • 154 sonnets
    • Sonnets 1-126:addressed to a young man
    • Sonnets 127－152：addressed to a "Dark Lady"
    • Sonnets 153－154：addressed to Cupid ,the God of love in Greek mythology
    • Themes
      • Praising the beauty of the young man
      • Transience of beauty in nature
      • Immortality of art in general ,of poetry in particular
  • shakespeare's plays
    • histories
      • first period
    • tragedies
      • Hamlet
      • Othello
      • King Lear
      • Macbeth
    • comedies
      • The Merchant of Venice
      • As you like it
      • Twelfth Night
      • Midsummer Night's Dream
    • tragic comedies
      • The Tempest
• Lambic Pentameter(抑扬格五音步）
  • Pentameter is simply penta,which means 5 meters
  • So a line of poetry written in pentameter has 5 feet ,or 5 sets of stressed and unstressed syllables
  • In basic iambic pentameter ,a line would have 5 feet of iambs ,which is an unstressed and then a stressed syllable