Shakespeare Complete Works (5)

Author: Shakespeare
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Publish Date: 1997-06-01
Features: During the European Renaissance, the emerging bourgeoisie was still a revolutionary class in the making, with a revolutionary spirit to fight against the dark forces of feudalism and religion. As the thinkers and spokesmen of this class, humanists used the ideological weapons of humanism to criticize the worldview of feudalism and religion. This not only directly created public opinion for the bourgeoisie but also aligned with the wishes and interests of the broad masses, playing a significant progressive role in history. Most of Shakespeare's plays were adapted from old scripts, chronicles, or novels, but in the process of adaptation, the author infused his own advanced ideals, enriching and deepening the intellectual content of the old themes and giving them new life. He inherited and developed the fine traditions of ancient Greek and Roman drama and British folk drama, defying the rigid rules like the "three unities" and breaking the boundaries between comedy and tragedy, carrying out creative innovations in both content and form. Shakespeare's plays radiate the strong ideological of humanists' anti-feudalism and anti-religion from their themes to character portrayals and detailed descriptions. In his comedies, targeting the constraints of medieval feudalism and asceticism, he respected women, celebrated love, and created a series of lovable, idealized images of the new bourgeois women.