英文兒童文學 week 7－kiwiguo的部落格

1. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. The play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet is called on to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius. Claudius had murdered his own brother, Hamlet's father King Hamlet , and subsequently seized the throne, marrying his deceased brother's widow. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature.

***Shakespeare's four mainly tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth

2. The Lake District, also known as The Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests and mountains (or fells) and its associations with the early 19th century writings of William Wordsworth and the other Lake Poets.

3. The Lake Poets were a group of English poets who all lived in the Lake District of England , United Kingdom at the turn of the nineteenth century. As a group, they followed no single "school" of thought or literary practice then known. They were named, only to be uniformly disparaged, by the Edinburgh Review . They are considered part of the Romantic Movement.

The three main figures of what has become known as the Lakes School were William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey . They were associated with several other poets and writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Charles Lloyd , Hartley Coleridge , John Wilson, and Thomas De Quincey .

4. Robert Southey (桂冠詩人) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets ". Although his fame has long been eclipsed by that of his contemporaries and friends William Wordsworth. William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge , helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

5. Charles Lamb was an English writer and essayist , best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare.He also wrote a number of poems, and was part of a literary circle in England, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, whom he befriended. He has been referred to by E. V . Lucas , his principal biographer, as "the most lovable figure in English literature".

6. The Holiday is a romantic comedy film written, starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean , who temporarily exchange homes to escape heartbreak during the holiday season . Jude Law and Jack Black are the movie's leading men , with Eli Wallach , Shannyn Sossamon , Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell playing key supporting roles.

7. Sappho was a Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. The Alexandrians included her in the list of nine lyric poets. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired through much of antiquity, has been lost; however, her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

8. Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are enjoyed by children.Modern children's literature is classified in two different ways: genre or the intended age of the reader.Children's literature can be traced to stories and songs, part of a wider oral tradition , that adults shared with children before publishing existed. The development of early children's literature, before printing was invented, is difficult to trace. Even after printing became widespread, many classic "children's" tales were originally created for adults and later adapted for a younger audience.

9. Halloween, also known as Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve, or All Saints' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on 31 October, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows' Day . It begins the three-day observance of Allhallowtide, the time in the liturgical year dedicated to remembering the dead, including saints (hallows), martyrs, and all the faithful departed believers.

10. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is an absurdist, existentialist tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard. The play expands upon the exploits of two minor characters from Shakespeare's Hamlet, the courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern .

11. Miss Potter movie reflection

(1) Do you love the story?Why or why not?

I like this story because it describes the journey that Miss Potter pursues her dream and the stories between her and men are romantic and interesting.

(2)Which character or episode impress you most?

Potter's mother impress me most. Although she wants to protect her daughter, but the behavior that she always obstructs Norman Warne and Potter's amour really makes me unhappy.

12. No preservatives, no artificial flavor. 無添加物，無人工香料