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1、姓名：陈志红学号：200940927122班级：09英语教育班BritishLiterature'Britishliterature'referstoliteratureassociatedwiththeUnitedKingdom,theIsleofManandtheChannelIslandsaswellastoliteraturefromEngland,WalesandScotlandpriortotheformationoftheUnitedKingdom.MostBritishliteratureisintheEnglis
2、hlanguage.WilliamShakespeareWilliamShakespeare(baptised26April1564;died23April1616)wasanEnglishpoetandplaywright,widelyregardedasthegreatestwriterintheEnglishlanguageandtheworld'spre-eminentdramatist.1HeisoftencalledEngland'snationalpoetandthe"BardofAvon".Hissurviving
3、works,includingsomecollaborations,consistofabout38plays,154sonnets,twolongnarrativepoems,andseveralotherpoems.Hisplayshavebeentranslatedintoeverymajorlivinglanguageandareperformedmoreoftenthanthoseofanyotherplaywright.IntheFirstFolio,theplaysofWilliamShakespeareweregr
4、oupedintothreecategories:comedies,histories,andtragedies"Comedy",initsElizabethanusage,hadaverydifferentmeaningfrommoderncomedy.AShakespeareancomedyisonethathasahappyending,usuallyinvolvingmarriagesbetweentheunmarriedcharacters,andatoneandstylethatismorelight-heartedt
5、hanShakespeare'sotherplays.Patternsinthecomediesincludemovementtoa"greenworld",1bothinternalandexternalconflicts,andatensionbetweenApollonianandDionysianvalues.Shakespeareancomediestendtoalsoinclude:"tragediesShakespearewrotetragediesfromthebeginningofhiscareer.Oneofh
6、isearliestplayswastheRomantragedyTitusAndronicus,whichhefollowedafewyearslaterwithRomeoandJuliet.However,hismostadmiredtragedieswerewritteninaseven-yearperiodbetween1601and1608.TheseincludehisfourmajortragediesHamlet,Othello,KingLearandMacbeth,alongwithAntony&Cleopatr
7、a,Coriolanusandthelesser-knownTimonofAthensandTroilusandCressida.RomeoandJulietRomeoandJulietisatragedywrittenearlyinthecareerofplaywrightWilliamShakespeareabouttwoyoung"star-cross'dlovers"1whosedeathsultimatelyunitetheirfeudingfamilies.ItwasamongShakespeare'smostpopu
8、lararchetypalstoriesofyoung,teenagelovers.HamletHamlet,isatragedybyWilliamShakespeare,believedtohavebeenwrittenbetween1599an
