关于莎士比亚你不知道的10件事_BEC初级作文

关于莎士比亚你不知道的10件事

The beautiful young man and the Dark Lady of Shakespeare's sonnets may have originals, at some remove. More likely is that when Shakespeare wrote sonnets the essential dramatist in him kicked in, creating characters and drama.

莎士比亚十四行诗中的俊朗青年和“黑女郎”或许有原型，不过进行了删减。更有可能的是，莎士比亚在创作十四行诗时发挥了剧作家的潜质，编造了其中的人物和情节。

6. Shakespeare's daughter was illiterate.

莎士比亚的女儿是文盲。

Of William and Anne Shakespeare's three children, two daughters survived: Susannah and Judith. While Susannah seems to have been able to sign her name, Judith could only make her mark. But in this period, literacy was a skill, useful in certain trades and professions, mainly male. Shakespeare was a man of his time, and his time didn't value literacy in women.

威廉·莎士比亚和安娜·莎士比亚共有3个子女，活下来的有2个：苏珊娜和朱迪斯。苏珊娜好像会写自己的名字，但朱迪斯却不识字。在那个时代，识字主要是男人在从事某些贸易和行业时所掌握的技能。莎士比亚是生在那个时代的杰出人物，但那个时代并不主张女性识字。

7. Shakespeare didn't care about posterity.

莎士比亚不关心作品的延续传承。

At least, as far as his plays went. He took care to supervise the printing of his two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, because these were prestige projects for influential patrons. But it was not until seven years after his death that his theatrical associates put together the First Folio edition of his plays. I