The European Renaissance was a giant era, and Shakespeare was the giant that came into being in this period.
Shakespeare is the greatest dramatic genius and poet in England. 1564 was born in Stratford, Avon River, central England, a wealthy citizen family. In the early days, I worked as a handyman in the theater, worked as an actor, toured around with the troupe, played a supporting role in the play, and later became a screenwriter. At first, he cooperated with others to change the old script, and soon began to create independently, and finally became a shareholder of London's "Globe Theatre". 1665438+died in his hometown on April 23rd, 2006. Seven years after Shakespeare's death, friends in the drama circle published the first collection of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's life is rich in works. Up to now, there are 37 plays, 2 long narrative poems, 14 sonnets 154 and some miscellaneous poems.
Shakespeare's creation can be divided into three stages.
The first stage is mainly historical dramas, comedies and poems, such as Henry IV and The Merchant of Venice. The works are full of youthful optimism and show humanistic thoughts. Even tragedies are comic in content and artistic style.
In the second stage, the writer began to realize the contradiction and sharpness of society, and his thoughts became gloomy and profound. He wrote four famous tragedies, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, and a series of great tragedies with more profound practical significance.
The third stage is the stage of creating drama, full of legends and brilliant fantasies. His masterpiece is The Tempest.
Of all Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet is regarded as the most outstanding. The theme of "Ha" is taken from the ancient legend that the Danish prince avenged his father. When Hamlet, a young Danish prince, returned to Denmark from Germany, he learned that his uncle Claudius had killed his father, became king and married his mother as his concubine. Hamlet's desire to avenge his father gradually turned into a great sense of social responsibility: this world full of unkindness, injustice, lies and hypocrisy, flatterers and schemers should be changed. But in the end, he was stabbed to death by his lover's brother, and the queen and Claudius died together. When the prince died, he asked to "tell the truth to future generations." Hamlet is an outstanding artistic model that shows the conflict between individual and society and the contradiction between ideal and reality. The image of Hamlet has a profound influence on European writers, who have created typical figures who have resisted society for more than 300 years.
In art, Shakespeare's plays are rigorous in structure, rich in plots, closely combined with individualization and versatility in characterization, and the characters are vivid and full. Shakespeare's dramatic vocabulary is extremely rich, and it is said that there are 17000 words. He is good at skillfully combining literary language with folk language, which is particularly vivid and refined. He was the first to break the boundary between tragedy and comedy, "mixing sublime and humble, horror and funny, hero and humor." He is also a great writer who can fully express human nature. He constantly asks us the most fundamental questions in life through his characters, and people can always find something related to themselves from his plays. These are the reasons why Shakespeare's works have eternal charm.