What does Shakespeare's famous saying "Everything in the past is a preface" mean?

Anything that has happened is a thing of the past. Philosophy is to stop thinking about the past, whether it is good or bad, but to face the future calmly.

Everything in the past is a preface. Love everyone, trust a few, and live up to no one. I wasted time, and time wasted me.

In the gloomy days, don't let the cold fate secretly rejoice; Since fate has insulted us, we should take revenge calmly. Smart people will never sit down and lament for failure. They must look optimistically for ways to save failure.

Source: Shakespeare's play The Tempest.

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The Tempest is a legendary play written by British playwright william shakespeare in his later years. It was written at about 16 1 1, first broadcast at the end of161,and first officially published at 1623. ?

The play tells the story that Prospero, the Duke of Milan, was usurped by his younger brother Antonio, and fled to a desert island with his only son Miranda, who became the owner of the island by magic.

Later, he created a storm, and brought the ships passing by the nearby King of Naples, Prince Ferdinand, Antonio and others to a desert island, and used magic to promote the marriage between the prince and Miranda. Finally, Prospero regained his title, forgave the enemy and returned home.

Acceptance and reconciliation is the theme of The Tempest. In the play, the loss is made up, and the evil is hit. The whole play is full of poetic and peaceful atmosphere, mysterious fantasy, magnificent description, vivid image and poetic background. ?

Like other works in Shakespeare's later period, the theme is the resurrection and rebirth of human nature, which makes people deeply realize how beautiful it is to get rid of evil, and it is a beauty that is covered up by bad phenomena on the surface. It not only shows the contrast between surface phenomena and the essence of things; It is also a reflection on the animal kingdom, human society and spiritual world.

This is the ideological basis of Shakespeare's understanding of people.

William shakespeare was a dramatist and poet in the English Renaissance.

Shakespeare was born in a wealthy citizen's family in Strafford, central England, on April 23rd, on 1564. When he was a child, he studied Latin, literature and rhetoric in the grammar school in his hometown. Later, when the family came down, he helped his father do business. He went to London alone to make a living around 1578. It is said that he worked as a groom or servant and was regarded as the "lowest occupation" at that time.

Later, he became an actor and screenwriter, and toured around with the troupe, widely touching the life of all walks of life. He played a supporting role in the troupe, such as the ghost in Hamlet, and also worked as a director, but mainly wrote plays. At first, he just processed the old script, and gradually rewritten it or created it himself from the beginning of processing.

He became a shareholder of the troupe and returned to his hometown from London around 16 13. 16 16 died on April 23rd.

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