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写莎士比亚的英语作文Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights of the world. H e was born in 1564 in Stratford on Avon in England which is a really p retty town and he opened the Globe theatre in London I think at some s tage but the main thing why Shakespeare is so famous… he had a reall y short life. Back in those days to make it to 40 was considered old a ge but in his relatively short life he produced an enormous body of w ork. He produced historical plays, tragedies, comedies, poetry, sonne ts… So he was an extremely prolific writer and I think the reason th at he's so famous even today is because the themes he chose for most o f his work were universal. They're themes that touch us whether we sp eak English, whether we speak Spanish or Russian, whether we're in th e 21st century or in the 16th century. They're themes that are eterna l and they concern humanity, and have concerned humanity for such a l ong time.莎士比亚是世界上最知名的剧作家之一。
背景材料：莎士比亚简介William Shakespeare, the world’ s most popular writer, was born to middle-class parents in the small market town of Stratford-upon-Avon in 15 64. Shortly after he married at the age of eighteen, he left his hometown and went to London. Within a few years, he became one of the city ’ s lea ding actors and playwrights. By 1612 ，he had been England ’ s most popular playwright. William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have meaning beyond the time and place of his plays. His characters are individual human beings, struggling just as people do in real life, sometimes successfully and sometimes with painful and tragic results. Shakespeare wrote at least thirty-seven plays, which gave an index to hi s extensive knowledge on various subjects Plays like Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet are so popular among Chinese readers that they have become the household institutions in this country. The writing of sonnets( 十四行诗) was a fashion in Shakespeare ’ s day. Partly in conformity with the popular vogue Shakespeare wrote his sequence of 154 sonnets. In these sonnets he exalted friendship and love, and sang the praises of youth and beauty. The following is Shakespeare ’ s we ll-known 18th sonnet, in which he immortalized his loved one.伟大的英国剧作家、诗人威廉·莎士比亚1564年生于英格兰斯特拉福镇。
莎士比亚对于任何一个英国人来说，谁是世界上最伟大的诗人和最伟大的戏剧家，这个问题根本用不着讨论。
他可能想到的只是一个人的名字，那便是莎士比亚。
每个英国人都对我们最伟大的作家的作品有所了解，不管他知道的是多么少。
我们大家都使用莎士比亚作品里的词和短语，引用他的话，他的作品已经成为说英语的人民的共同财产的一部分。
大多数时候，我们可能没有意识到我们所使用的词语的出处，就像一位被带去观看《哈姆雷特》的老太太抱怨说：“戏里尽是大家熟知的谚语和引语。
”莎士比亚或许比任何一个作家都更充分地使用了英语的巨大资源。
我们大多数人平时使用5 000左右的英语词，而莎士比亚在他的作品里使用了大约25 000个词!对于外国人(甚至还有英国人!)来说，要欣赏丰富多彩的英语，学习莎士比亚使用英语的各种方法可能是最佳的途径。
这种方法是很值得学习的(当然，对英语初学者我们不提这样的建议)，即使英语的有些习惯用法以及许多词的意思自莎士比亚时代以来发生了变化。
令人难以理解的是，我们对这位英国最伟大的作家的生平所知甚少。
我们知道莎士比亚l564年出生在艾冯河畔的斯特拉特福，1616年在那里去世。
几乎可以肯定，他是在镇上念的文法学校，但对此我们没有绝对把握。
我们知道，他在1582年娶了安•哈塞威，他有三个子女，一男二女。
我们知道，他一生大部分时间是在伦敦度过的，在那里写出了杰作。
但是，我们所知道的差不多就是这些。
然而，莎士比亚生平中最重要的不是无关紧要的琐事，而是其作品——戏剧和诗歌。
多少年来，学者们一直在努力发掘一些关于莎士比亚生平的事实，为我们已掌握的少量资料增添一些内容；与此同时，批评家们也一直在对莎士比亚戏剧进行理论探讨。
的确，有时候看起；来由于评论莎士比亚诗歌的文章大量出现，他的诗歌反而将湮没其间。
所幸的是，这种情况不大可能发生。
莎士比亚的诗歌及其笔下的人物(如麦克佩斯、奥赛罗、哈姆雷特、福斯塔夫和所有其他人物)，长期以来不仅为英国人所喜爱，而且也为世界各地的文学爱好者所喜爱，在那些学者和评论家及其所有论著统统被遗忘之后，人们照样还会喜爱莎士比亚的作品。
