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1、Shakespeare'sInfluenceonTheatre,LiteratureandEnglishLanguageInfluenceontheatreandliteratureShakespeare'sworkhasmadealastingimpressiononlatertheatreandliterature.Inparticular,heexpandedthedramaticpotentialof characterization,plot, language,and genre. Until RomeoandJuliet,forexample,romance
2、hadnotbeenviewedasaworthytopicfortragedy.Soliloquieshadbeenusedmainlytoconveyinformationaboutcharactersorevents;butShakespeareusedthemtoexplorecharacters'minds.Hisworkheavilyinfluencedlaterpoetry.The RomanticpoetsattemptedtoreviveShakespeareanversedrama,thoughwithlittlesuccess.Critic Geor
3、geSteiner describedallEnglishversedramasfrom Coleridge to Tennyson as"feeblevariationsonShakespeareanthemes.Shakespeareinfluencednovelistssuchas ThomasHardy, WilliamFaulkner,and CharlesDickens.TheAmericannovelist HermanMelville's soliloquiesowemuchtoShakespeare;hisCaptainAhabin Moby-Dick
4、isaclassic tragichero,inspiredby KingLear. Scholarshaveidentified20,000piecesofmusiclinkedtoShakespeare'sworks.Theseincludetwooperasby GiuseppeVerdi, Othello and Falstaff,whosecriticalstandingcompareswiththatofthesourceplays. Shakespearehasalsoinspiredmanypainters,includingtheRomanticsand
5、the Pre-Raphaelites.TheSwissRomanticartist HenryFuseli,afriendof WilliamBlake,eventranslated Macbeth intoGerman. The psychoanalyst SigmundFreud drewonShakespeareanpsychology,inparticularthatofHamlet,forhistheoriesofhumannature.InfluenceontheEnglishlanguageWilliamShakespeare'sinfluenceexte
6、ndsfromtheatreandliteraturetopresent-daymoviesandtheEnglishlanguageitself.WidelyregardedasthegreatestwriteroftheEnglishlanguage,andtheworld'spre-eminentdramatist,ShakespearetransformedEuropeantheatrebyexpandingexpectationsaboutwhatcouldbeaccomplishedthroughcharacterization,plot,languagean
7、dgenre.Shakespeare'swritingshavealsoinfluencedalargenumberofnotablenovelistsandpoetsovertheyears,includingHermanMelvilleandCharlesDickens.ShakespeareisthemostquotedwriterinthehistoryoftheEnglish-speakingworld,afterthevariouswritersoftheBible,andmanyofhisquotationsan
