欧洲文艺复兴是一个产生巨人的时代,莎士比亚便是这一时期应运而生的伟大巨人之一,马克思曾经称莎士比亚为“人类最伟大的戏剧天才”。1564年4月23日,莎士比亚出生在英国中部埃文河上的斯特拉特福镇一个富裕的市民家庭。家道败落后,他曾在屠宰场做过学徒工,做过书童,当过律师的书记员,也曾在当地学校做过教师助手和小学生的家庭教师。在他22岁时,他跟随一个戏班来到了伦 The European Renaissance was a generation of giants. Shakespeare was one of the great giants that came into being during this period. Marx used to call Shakespeare “the greatest human drama genius”. On April 23, 1564, Shakespeare was born into an affluent family of citizens in Stratford on the Avon River in central England. After the decline of the family road, he worked as an apprentice at the slaughterhouse, worked as a book boy, served as a clerk for a lawyer, and worked as a teacher’s aide and a pupil’s tutor at a local school. When he was 22, he followed a troupe