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Why Study
Shakespeare’s Works Shakespeare is not a dead poet who lived long ago, but a breathing
spirit thrusting himself into our everyday lives. In all countries of the
world, in all languages, Shakespeare continues to speak profoundly to mankind. His poems and plays have made him an immortal in literature, but not because
they are scholarly. He knew human life and human passion intimately, and told
about them in a sensitive, lively and intelligible way. Shakespeare, like us, lived in troubled years. Between 1564 and 1616
much of Shakespeare came on the scene when a blending force was needed. Eight of
his ten history plays present a sequence of wars in Physical glories were relatively rare, but the spirit of art and of
language was fertile. It was
Shakespeare who put into words, in dramatized form, the feelings, hopes, fears,
frustrations and triumphs of the people of that age. |
This is the material about English Renaissance and pre-Shakespearean poets. |
Some extracts from ballads about Robin Hood |
...Eleanor's life "revealed the
truth of a prophecy which had puzzled all by its obscurity: 'The eagle of the
broken bond shall rejoice in the third nestling.' They called the queen the
eagle because she stretched out her wings, as it were, over two kingdoms -
France and England. She had been separated from her French relatives through
divorce, while the English had separated her from her marriage bed by confining
her to prison . . . Richard, her third son - and thus the third nestling - was
the one who would raise his mother's name to great glory." |
Lord Randall. |
Literature of the XV C. Thomas Malory. Morte D’Arthur. Medieval English Ballads. |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE0MtENfOMU Listen,please! |
Read the Quotations in Russian and learn them by heart. |
Canterbury Tales Prologue in Middle English and translated into Russian by I.Kashkin,one of the greatest translators. |
Canterbury Tales Summary in Russian |