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Unit 3 Text 1 A Man from Stratford — William ShakespeareTeam Member: Boat, Delia, Daisy

William ShakespeareOccupations: playwright poet actor

To be or not to be.That is a question.

Birthplace Stratford

London

Do not,for one repulse,give up the purpose that you resolved to effect .

King Lear

A Midsummer Night's Dream

The merchant of Venice

As you like it

Twelfth Night

Poem Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date; Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.

Pass away

Date: April 23rd,1616 Place: Stratford

Questions before Reading What kind of person is Shakespeare? Why Shakespeare wanted to be a playwright and how he managed to achieve it?

What type of writing does the text belong to? Narration of biography.

How does the author organize the text? Chronological order.

Main Idea?

(Line3)It was the will of a comfortably off man. Paraphrase:A comfortably off man is a man who is well-off or wealthy.

(Line6)There is no country where Shakespeare’s work is…so much better than that of anyone else.

Paraphrase: People all over the world read Shakespeare’s work with a feeling of profound respect and surprise because there is something about him that made people charmed.

Translation任何一个国家的人在阅读莎士比亚的作品时多少都带着一 份敬畏之心，因为一个人的作品能做到令所有人都望其项 背，自叹不如。这一点足以让人们着迷。

(Line9)…almost every detail of his personal life is supposition rather than fact. Paraphrase:We don’t base every particular detail of his personal life on facts, but just guess or speculate it.