A brief introduction to Shakespeare's life and main deeds

Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon in central England, and his father was a businessman. At the age of 4, my father was elected as the "head of the city hall" and became the mayor of this small town with more than 2,000 residents and 20 hotels and restaurants. There are often troupe tours in this town. When Shakespeare watched the performance, he was surprised to find that a small stage and a few actors could show stories in history and real life. He felt amazing and fell in love with the play. He often works with children, learning the characters and plots in the play, and wants to work in the script when he grows up.

But unfortunately, his father failed in business, and Shakespeare, who was 14 years old, had to drop out of school to be his father's assistant. He got married at the age of 18, but less than 2 1 and has three children. His wife is eight years older than him. Shakespeare often regrets his marriage. He once said in his works: "Women should marry men older than themselves." . However, he still cares about his wife who works hard at home and raises children.

1586, enterprising Shakespeare went to London with a troupe and found a job to look after horses for the audience riding horses in the theater. Although this is a handyman, it is linked to drama after all. Shakespeare did his best to do the work, and he did it well. The audience on horseback is willing to give him the horse. Shakespeare is often so busy that he has to find a group of teenagers. They are called "children of Shakespeare".

Shakespeare is quick-thinking and eloquent. After work, he quietly watched performances on the stage, insisted on teaching himself literature, history, philosophy and other courses, and also taught himself Greek and Latin. When the troupe needed extras, he got the moon first by being close to the water. With his talent, he was finally able to play some supporting roles. When he played a supporting role, Shakespeare also played well. His excellent understanding and superb acting skills made him quickly absorbed into the troupe and became a formal actor.

At that time, the theatre company in London was in urgent need of scripts. Because if a play is not liked by the audience, it will be stopped immediately and a new play will be staged. While insisting on studying acting, Shakespeare also read a lot of books and learned about the history of his motherland and the unfortunate fate of the people. He decided to try to write some historical plays. At the age of 27, he wrote the historical drama Henry VI Trilogy, which was put on the stage and was well received by the audience. He won a high reputation and gradually gained a foothold in the London theatre.

1595, Shakespeare wrote a tragedy Romeo and Juliet. After the performance of the play, Shakespeare became famous in London, and the audience flooded into the theater to see the play, moved to tears. In this drama, the writer wrote about the value of free love, condemned the persecution of love by feudal system and praised the ideal love.

1599, Shakespeare was already rich. His troupe built a theater called Globe Theatre, and he became a shareholder. He also bought a house and land in his hometown, and prepared to use it when he got old. Soon, his two good friends launched a rebellion to reform politics. As a result, the former was hanged and the latter was put into prison. Shakespeare was very angry. He devoted himself to writing Hamlet and played the ghost in the play himself.

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/kloc-At the beginning of the 7th century, Shakespeare's plays were introduced into Germany, France, Italy, Russia and Northern Europe, and then spread all over the United States and even the world, which had a great and far-reaching impact on the development of drama in various countries and became an important link and source of inspiration for the development and exchange of world culture.

China began to introduce and translate Shakespeare's plays in the early 20th 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 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 drama.

Most of Shakespeare's plays are based on old scripts, novels, chronicles or folklore, but in rewriting, he injected his own ideas and endowed the old themes with novel, rich and profound contents. 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.

Shakespeare's plays are popular plays written for the British stage and audience at that time. Therefore, it is characterized by a blend of sadness and joy, a taste for both refined and popular tastes, freedom of time and space, and efforts to mobilize the imagination of the audience to make up for the simplicity of the stage. In the18th century, it was criticized by the classicists represented by Voltaire, and was arbitrarily deleted during the performance.

Shakespeare's plays are not bound by the three laws, break through the boundaries 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 meaningful philosophy.

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