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Hi everyone, and welcome back to酒馆. Good news, we have another new course!
Yeah!

 

By the way, hi, 安澜.

 

Hello.

 

我们的新专辑【莎士比亚扫盲班】, the Bluffer's Guide to Shakespeare上线了, 璐璐和安澜陪你走进莎士比亚十部最有名的戏剧, 解读文豪笔下的喜怒哀乐, 嬉笑怒骂, 让沙翁的戏剧不再遥远.

 

I think the last time we did this was to introduce our course the Bluffer's Guide to Literature. 上一次和安澜录发刊词还是在录上一个专辑【英文名著扫盲班】.

 

Yes, that's right. And as we were doing that course, we realized we didn't actually put any Shakespeare into that particular course. So I thought we should do one on Shakespeare.

 

The Bluffer's Guide to Shakespeare. I think everyone has heard of Shakespeare even if they have never really read anything that he wrote.

 

就算你没有读过任何莎士比亚的东西, 但至少也知道莎士比亚这个人.

 

Exactly.

 

Famous all around.

 

Pretty much.

 

Do you guys actually have to read Shakespeare in school?

 

Of course, pretty much in every English-speaking country, you have to study Shakespeare.

 

When I was younger, I had to read, I think it was about two of his plays? and then when I went to college, before going to university, I also read another one of his plays as well.

 

So a lot of the kids, even if they don't want to, they have to read Shakespeare.

 

They have to read it, they have to do exams on Shakespeare. Yeah, I would say a lot of kids don't really like it. It is quite old-fashioned.

 

But for me I personally loved it. I love Shakespeare. Well, put it this way, his works are the second most published in the English speaking world.

 

是英语世界里出版次数第二多的. What's the first?

 

The Bible.

 

Of course.  I know the 3rd one is Agatha Christie. 第三名是阿加莎·克里斯蒂.

 

That’s right.

 

He wrote many plays and also poems.

 

Yeah, he's famous for writing 37 plays and 154 sonnets.

 

Sonnet就是14行诗，是一种特别的诗体.

 

Yeah, it's a particular form of poetry. Because of his plays and also his poetry, he was regarded as a literary genius from the very moment he died.

 

中文里也把它叫做“文豪”, 这也是为什么很多时候我们听到说“莎翁”，这个就是对他的一个尊称.



And he also was famously inventing a lot of words.

 

That's right. It’s difficult to really calculate how many words he invented, but it's around 1,700.

 

And some of the words you wouldn't imagine was invented by him, was actually invented by him, like ‘advertising’ was invented by Shakespeare.

 

Yeah, luggage, gossip, and ... I'm a little bit confused about this myself, but apparently Shakespeare invented the word elbow.

 

就是一个肘部, 手肘, elbow.  Gossip, 八卦这个词是莎士比亚创造的, 我能信.

 

Yeah.

 

This were obviously things that if you check online, you would find about him, the fact sheets.



Who is Shakespeare?

 

Shakespeare was born in April 1564 in a small town called Stratford-upon-Avon.
That's why he was known as the Bard of Avon.
That's right. Now Shakespeare's family was, I won't say wealthy, but they were kind of relatively well off, they had money. But when he was a child, his family actually lost a lot of that money, so he was unable to go to university even though that he went to the local school and learnt Latin.
The two facts that I know about Shakespeare's personal life is, first of all, he married early and his wife's name is Anne Hathaway, 就是安妮·海瑟薇, 现在女演员的名字. Her parents probably got it from Shakespeare's wife.
Pretty much. So he married Anne Hathaway when he was only 18. And Anne Hathaway was actually quite a bit older than him.
这也是姐弟恋的先锋.
And also the other fact is one of his kids was actually named Hamlet or Hamnet, something like that.
That's right. His only son was called Hamlet or Hamnet, both forms of the name were used back then. It was when he died that Shakespeare wrote his famous play Hamlet.

So that's a bit of a sad story, background story.

Now of course, everyone knows Shakespeare is a famous playwright, 他是一个非常伟大的剧作家, but he was actually acting himself.

Well, yeah. There are quite a few plays where scholars think Shakespeare was playing maybe the lead or one of the supporting roles.
His money came from writing plays,