Unit 4 Stage and Screen Understanding ideas课件 2023-2024学年高一英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

Unit 4 When Hamlet Meets Peking Opera jinghu sanxian erhu yueqin sheng Facts about Peking Opera: 1.orchestra 2. costumes and masks 3. stage set Jingju, or Peking Opera, is an ancient performance art with a history of 200 years, has _____kinds of roles according to different identities and personalities.   five  4. characters the positive male role the positive female role a supporting male role with a striking character a supporting middle-aged male role with beard the clown or a negative character Facts about western opera 　　An opera is like a play in which everything is sung instead of being spoken. It combines a number of the performing arts, such as acting, scenery, costume, and sometimes dance or ballet. The singers who sing and act out the story are on the stage, and the orchestra is in front of the stage but lower down, in the orchestra pit(乐池), so that the audience can see the stage. William Shakespeare （1564—1616）is regarded as the greatest playwright of all time. Hamlet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Prince Hamlet takes revenge on his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered the king, Hamlet’s father, seized the throne （王位）and married Hamlet’s mother. When HAMLET meets PEKING OPERA 1 I thought I knew a lot about Hamlet. As a high school student with English literature as one of my main subjects, I have to! Shakespeare’s Hamlet is probably the most important play by the most important writer in English. Almost everybody knows “To be, or not to be”, right? Having seen quite a few productions of Hamlet and read the play many times, I was full of confidence - until the Peking Opera came to town! 2 Dating back to the 18th century, Peking Opera has over two hundred years of history. Does this mean it’s easier than a Shakespeare play to understand? To find out the answer, I just had to go and see The Revenge of Prince Zidan - the Peking Opera version of Hamlet. 3 Starting with an orchestra playing traditional Chinese instruments, t