Bravo for Harold Bloom's insistence on recognizing the aesthetic power of art, and particularly Shakespearean drama, to do things for the human imagination that no other form of discourse can: In the Bardolatry of Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), we are surely meant to hear ...
Play is not the thing in Shakespeare test.Reports on the changes in the Shakespeare test in Great Britain. Complaint of English teachers regarding the changes in the syllabus; Relevance of the writing element to the Shakespeare test; Account of the inclusion of compulsory Shakespeare in the key ...
An early tragedy about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths" ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic effect. It was among Shakespeare's most popular
22、Man's knowledge more wide, the person's itself also will be. 人的知识愈广,人的本身也愈臻完善。 23、The world's fastest while the slowest, the longest while the shortest, the most ordinary while the most valuable, the most easily overlooked and most regret is time. 世界上最快而又最...
比尔•布莱森(Bill Bryson)的畅销书《威廉•莎士比亚传》(William Shakespeare)带领读者踏上了一段迷人的旅程,穿越了伊丽莎白时代的英国,领略了莎士比亚学术研究的古怪之处——为了纪念莎士比亚逝世400周年,作者在书中添加了新的介绍。 威廉·莎士比亚是最著名的诗人之一,他留下了近一百万字的文字,但他的传记长期以来...
It does help to find out a little bit about the story before reading a Shakespeare play. It’s worth the effort. As Shakespeare wrote, “All the world is a stage.” And in his plays you’ll find that an entire world is waiting for you. ...
31. Macbeth by William Shakespeare Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No. This hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. William Shakespeare uses hyperbole to show how shameful and revolted Macbeth feels after killing King Duncan. He says ...
Everyone is entitled to an opinion, even I am. If your opinion is that Professor Vender was the best American critic of poetry of the 20th century, you're entitled to it. I thought Professor Vendler was well worth reading when she addressed poets from earlier periods: Shakespeare, George He...
All the world's a stage By William Shakespeare Allthe world's a stage, By William Shakespeare And all the men and women merelyplayers: They have their exits and theirentrances; And one man in his time plays manyparts, His acts being seven ages. Atfirst, the infant, Mewling and puking ...
Shakespeare went to London, where he worked in a theatre for some years before he began to write his own plays. Shakespeare soon became well-known in London. Every play he wrote was very good and new to the people of the capital. Queen Elizabeth liked Shakespeare’s plays. By the end ...