
剧本角色

Will
男,0岁
莎士比亚

Narrator
女,0岁
旁白

Thomas
男,0岁
戏剧演员

Robert
男,0岁
戏剧演员

ElizabethI
女,0岁
Queen Elizabeth I
说在前面:
1.该本的内容来自BBC官网提供的transcript;主要以情景演绎的形式,借由莎士比亚“本人”与他人的对话,介绍他在戏剧中创造出的一些短语,及“出处”和“现代例句”。(喜欢的小伙伴可以自己去BBC官网 or B站看原版)
2.可以轮本,只读含义和例句;也可以分角色演绎情景剧(2-3人即可,一人演Will+适当兼职,另一个人兼职所有);
内容简介:(from 官网)
莎翁妙语系列,由BBC Learning English 与 The Opening University联合出品。本系列含20个视频,讲述了威廉莎士比亚的生平、时代与所创作的词语。
The Shakespeare Speaks series is a co-production between BBC Learning English and The Open University.Shakespeare Speaks is a 20-part series about the life, times and language of William Shakespeare.
目录:该本 8-14
· 08. The world's mine oyster:describes situations that contain wonderful opportunities;from《The Merry Wives of Windsor (温莎的风流娘儿们)》
· 09. A tower of strength:a person that you can rely on to help, protect and comfort you when you are in trouble;from《Richard III (理查三世)》
· 10. Spotless reputation:a person or organisation that has a good, clean character and behaves decently and honestly;from《Richard II (理查二世)》
· 11. The green eyed monster:the dangers of uncontrolled jealousy in relationships;from《Othello(奥赛罗)》
· 12. In a pickle:Nowadays, when someone has drunk a lot of alcohol, they can say: I'm pickled - and when they've got problems, they can say: I'm in a pickle.;from《The Tempest(暴风雨)》
· 13. Forever and a day:something – either good or bad – will last indefinitely, or for a very, very long time;from《The Taming of the Shrew(驯悍记)》
· 14. Give no words but mum:don't tell anyone - it's a secret;from《Henry VI (亨利六世)》
08. The world's mine oyster
【含义】
Narrator:The Merry Wives of Windsor was Shakespeare's only comedy to be set entirely in England, and it's considered to be his most realistic portrayal of the daily lives of ordinary people. Think of it as the original 'Real Housewives'. In Shakespeare's play, the phrase the world's mine oyster was used as a threat - but today, it has become the world's my oyster - or your oyster - and it describes situations that contain wonderful opportunities. Take US entrepreneur Chris Gardner, who wrote in his autobiography The Pursuit of Happyness:
例句1:The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.
Narrator:It can describe the opportunities that open up when you take risks, have money or learn new skills.
例句2:If you learn foreign languages, the world's your oyster.
【情景剧】
Narrator:The year is 1599. William Shakespeare is at the palace of Queen Elizabeth I of England. The Queen has ordered Shakespeare to write another play.
ElizabethI:Mr Shakespeare. Tell me about my new play.
Will:Your Majesty, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy, in which Sir John Falstaff tries to trick two married ladies into giving him money behind their husbands' backs.
ElizabethI:Falstaff! Hahaha! He is such a wicked man... that's why I like him. Or maybe he reminds me of our dear friend Sir Walter Raleigh, who brings me treasure from around the world. Look at my pearls, taken from a Spanish ship by Raleigh and brought to me as a gift.
Will:They are beautiful, your Majesty. Whoever could guess that such a creature, deep in the ocean, could contain the most beautiful, precious treasure: a pearl?!
ElizabethI:Yessss... to Raleigh, the whole world is an oyster... full of treasure, ready for the taking. By force if need be... he is not afraid to use the sword to bring me my treasure.
Will: Mr Raleigh is your loyal servant, your Majesty, as am I.
ElizabethI: To Falstaff. What of his trickery?
Will: Your Majesty, while Falstaff is trying to get money from the wives, his friend Pistol is trying to get money out of him!
ElizabethI: Hahaha! Does he get it?
Will: Falstaff tells Pistol he won't give him a penny. Pistol becomes angry and says he'll get his sword and open up Falstaff's money bag - or any money bag he can find - like he's opening an oyster with a knife! It goes like this. I will not lend thee a penny...
Thomas Swann as Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny.
Robert Harley as Pistol:Why, then the world's mine oyster. Which I with sword will open. 【出处】《The Merry Wives of Windsor( 温莎的风流娘儿们)》
ElizabethI:The world's mine oyster. It's full of money and treasure. Quite right, Mr Shakespeare, quite right. Mr Shakespeare,I am pleased. Your actors will perform this play for me.
Will:To perform, or not to perform: I'll just do what she tells me.
09. A tower of strength
【含义】
Narrator: In Richard III, or as I like to call it, the Mafia play, King Richard murdered everyone that stood between him and the absolute power that he wanted, including the Prince of Wales, his brother Clarence, Misters Rivers, Vaughn and Grey, Lord Hastings, King Edward IV's two young sons - and his own wife! Of course, these days, you don't have to kill your family to be described as a tower of strength - you just have to be strong, reliable, trustworthy, dependable and good in a crisis. Like footballer David Beckham, who said:
例句1:Alex Ferguson was like a father to me. He was a tower of strength.
例句2:My husband was a tower of strength when I had that operation - he really looked after me well.
【情景剧】
Narrator:It was a dark and stormy night. Thomas Swann is in his favourite pub, the Duck and Whistle. He's rehearsing the role of King Richard in Shakespeare's Richard III.
Thomas:The King's name is a tower of strength... Hmmm. I could play it quietly: The King's name is a tower of strength... or angrily: The King's name is a tower of strength...
Barmaid:Here you go Mr Will, Mr Thomas, two more ales.