英美文学离线作业

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Unit 1

1. What year was Shakespeare Born? B

A 1562 B1564 C 1616 D 1617

2. What was the name of Shakespeare's theatrical company? D

A The King’s man B The Queen’s man C The Chess man D

The Lords man

3. All of the following plays are tragedies by Shakespeare except C

A、Othello B、 Hamlet C、 The Tempest D、 Macbeth

4. English Renaissance Period was an age of B

A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama

C. essays and journals

D. ballad and songs

5. Shakespeare’s four tragedies are__Othello, ___ Hamlet _, _ Macbeth ___

and__king lear__.

6. Please read the famous monologue and answer the following questions.

To be, or not to be ─ that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles.

And by opposing end them.

To die─ to sleep

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to.

'tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wishd

To die ─ to sleep,

To sleep ─ perchance to dream;

ay, there's the rub!

For in that sleep of death what may come

When we have shuffled off this mortal coil

Must give us pause.

There's the respect

That makes calamity of so long life.

For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

The oppressor's wrong, the proud

man's contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of the unworthy takes,

When he himself might his quietus make

With a bare bodkin?

Who would these fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

2 But that the dread of something after death

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn

No traveler returns ─ puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

Than fly to others that we know not of?

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,

And thus the native hue of resolution

Is sicklied o’ er with the pale cast of thought,

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

And lose the name of action.

1. Which famous play is the speech taken from? Who is the author of the play?

The play is the speech taken from Hamlet,William Shakespeare is author.

2. Who gives the speech in the play?

Hamlet

3. What does the speech indicate?

“to be or not to be” indicates to live or end one’s life. The whole drift of the

speech shows his belief in a future life. This speech shows Hamlet’s melancholy and

his delay and describes he faced the dilemma of action and mind

4. What is the story of the play?

Hamlet is considered is summit of Shakespeare’s art. One of the four tragedies of

Shakespeare, hamlet reflect the right of the english Renaissance. The story of the play

is set in Denmark. Gertrude, Queen of Danmark, widowed by the sudden death of the

king,marries of the king’s brother Claudius within to mouths, and thu s become the

queen of the new King Clardius. Prince Hamlet, son of the dead king, reture form the

University of Wittenberg after hearing the news. He suspects the murderous role in his

father’s dead played by Claudius, his uncle. Later his father’s ghost apper to tell him

the truth and confirms his suspicion. Hamlet undertakes the task te revenge against he

murderer. He pretends to be mad out of his passion for Ophelia who is daughter of

Polonius, an old courtier. Later Hamlet has a play acted, which father confirms his

suspicion. Claudius is deeply disturbed by the performance and decide to send Hamlet

to England after Hamlet mistakenly kills polonius. Meanwhile Claudius

sendsassassins to kill Hamlet on the voyage. But Hamlet succeeds in coming out of it

alive and reture to denmark again. Unfortunately Hamlet comes back at the time of

Ophelia’s funeral. Ophelia goes mad after the death of her father and drowned in a

stream. Laertes, Ophelia;s brother decides to avenge the death of his sister and father

by challenging Hamlet but is himself struck with the same poisoned rapier by Hamlet.

The Queen, at this moment, has drunk from a poisoned cup intended for Hamlet. Just

before death laertes tells Hamlet about a plot. Hamlet then in a passion, stabs Claudius.

therefore in the final scene of the play, nearly all the major characters die on the stage.

7. Explain the term “Renaissance”.

Renaissance is mean of rebrith and revival. The renaissance is a historical period in

which the European hunmanist thinkers sna scholars tried to get rid of those old

feudalistic ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that express the interests