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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 76: A woman¡¯s appearance is wrapped in the heart of a tiger

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    Other romances included Sophie Oersted, the daughter of physicist Hans Oersted, Louise Colin, the youngest daughter of his patron Jonas Colin, and the famous opera soprano Jenny Lind.

    One of Andersen's most famous fairy tales, "The Nightingale," was written to express his feelings for Jenny Lind, and this story inspired the birth of her nickname, Swedish Nightingale.  Andersen was too shy and was not good at interacting with women, so he delayed proposing to her. One time when Lind boarded a train to go to an opera house, he finally plucked up the courage to hand her a proposal letter.  However, Linde's feelings for Andersen were not like this. She regarded him more as a brother, and wrote to him in 1844:

    ¡°Farewell God bless my brother, these are the sincere wishes of his beloved sister.¡±

    Andersen not only has an unrequited love for women, but also for men.  For example, Andersen wrote to Edward Colin: I am infatuated with you as I am with a Calabrian girl. I feel for you as for a woman.  My sexual femininity and our friendship had to be kept secret.

    And Colin is a heterosexual. He wrote in his diary: I found that I could not respond to his love, which made the author feel uncomfortable.  Similarly, his passionate love affair with a Danish dancer and the minor hereditary Duke of Eisenach in Weimar Saxony, Karl Alexander, also failed.

    In recent years, some academic studies have discovered homosexual implications in Andersen¡¯s works.

    In the spring of 1872, Andersen fell from his bed and was seriously injured, from which he never fully recovered.  On August 4, 1875, Andersen died in a house called rolighed (meaning peaceful) near Copenhagen.  His remains were buried in G?hagen's cemetery.

    By the time of his death, Andersen was already world-famous.  He is known as Denmark's national treasure and enjoys a regular stipend from the Danish government.  Before his death, people had begun preparing to erect a large statue in his honor.  The statue now stands in a prominent position in the gardens of Rosenborg Palace in Copenhagen.

    One of the Demon Guardians - Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare, (1564-1616, Chinese society often respectfully calls Shakespeare; at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Lu Xun called Shakespeare "Chasper" in his Moro poems)

    He is the most outstanding dramatist in British academic history.  He is also one of the most outstanding writers in the history of Western art and one of the most outstanding scholars in the world.

    His surviving works include 38 plays, 155 sonnets, two long narrative poems and other poems.  His plays have been translated into every major language and have been performed far more than those of any other dramatist.

    Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon and married Anne Hathaway when he was 18.

    Shakespeare began a successful career in London for more than 20 years from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 17th century. He was not only an actor, playwright, but also a partner of the Lord Chamberlain's Company, which was later renamed the King's Company.

    Around 1613, Shakespeare retired to Stratford-upon-Avon and died three years later.  Very few records of Shakespeare's private life survive.  Mysteries remain about his sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and whether his writings were authored by someone else, although some believe it was Queen Elizabeth I of England.

    1590 to 1613 was the golden age of Shakespeare's creation.  His early plays were mainly comedies and historical dramas, reaching a peak of depth and artistry in the late 16th century.

    From the next to 1608, he mainly wrote tragedies. Shakespeare advocated noble sentiments and often described sacrifice and revenge.  Including "Othello", "Hamlet", "King Lear" and "Macbeth", are considered among the best examples of the English language.

    Towards the end of his life, he began to write tragicomedies, also known as romance plays, and collaborated with other playwrights.  During his lifetime, many of his works were published in multiple editions, with varying degrees of quality and accuracy.

    1623.  Two colleagues from his theater company published the First Folio, which included all of Shakespeare's works that have been recognized so far, except for two works.

    Shakespeare was revered as a poet and playwright during his lifetime, but it was not until the 19th century that his reputation reached the heights it enjoys today.  And its fame spread to Asia in the 20th century.  Africa and the three continents of Latin America have made more people aware of its reputation.

    The Romantic Era celebrated Shakespeare¡¯s talent, and the Victorian Era revered him like a hero.  Called Shakespearean worship by George Bernard Shaw.

    In the 20th century, his works were often adapted and rediscovered by new academic movements.  His works remain popular today.  Performed and interpreted globally in differentiated and political forms.

    Shakespeare¡¯s father was John Shakespeare, a wealthy glove merchant and city councilor, originally from Snitterfield, and his mother Mary Arden was the daughter of a wealthy landowner.

    Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.  Shakespeare's The King at Stratford-upon-AvonAn education was obtained at the school, a free school founded in 1553, a quarter of a mile from his home.

    The quality of junior high schools in Elizabethan times varied, but the curriculum throughout England was prescribed by law, and schools provided intensive education in Latin and classics.

    At the age of 18, Shakespeare married 26-year-old Anne Hathaway, and the Inquisition of the Diocese of Worcester issued a marriage certificate on November 27, 1582.  The next day two Hathaway neighbors guaranteed that there would be no obstacles to the marriage.

    The couple may have arranged the ceremony in a hurry, as a Worcester judge allowed the wedding notice to be announced only once, instead of the usual three.  The rush may have been the result of Hathaway being pregnant with Shakespeare's child at the time.

    Six months after their marriage, their daughter Susanna Shakespeare was born.  Two years later, his twin sons were baptized on February 2, 1585.

    After the birth of the twins, there are very few historical records of Shakespeare until he appeared in a London theater company in 1592.  Due to the absence of this period, some scholars refer to the years 1585 to 1592 as the years of Shakespeare's whereabouts.

    Biographers tried to illustrate his experiences during this period and described many fictional stories.  An 18th-century version of the story establishes Shakespeare's theatrical career as a theater partner in London.

    John Aubrey described Shakespeare as a country schoolmaster.  Some 20th-century scholars have suggested that Shakespeare may have been employed as schoolmaster by Alexander Horton of Lancashire, a Catholic landowner who named a certain William Shakespeare in his will.  There is no evidence to confirm that these stories differ from some of the rumors that followed his death.

    The exact time Shakespeare began writing remains a mystery, but clues and records of performances during the same period indicate that by 1592 several of his plays had been performed on the London stage.  By then he was well known in London, and the playwright Robert Greene wrote an article attacking him:

    "There is a crow beautifying his arrogance with our feathers, with a tiger's heart wrapped in his showman's exterior, who thinks he is as good at lining up a blank line as the best among you.  poetry; and he¡¯s a jack-of-all-trades who prides himself on being the only stage rocker in the country.¡±

    Scholars differ on the exact meaning of these comments, but most agree that Greene was poking fun at Shakespeare's efforts to achieve a higher-than-deserved status alongside university-educated writers such as Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nash, and Greene himself  .

    The performer¡¯s appearance is wrapped in the heart of a tiger, imitating the lines of Shakespeare¡¯s Henry VI Part 3. The woman¡¯s appearance is wrapped in the heart of a tiger.  The pun on the stage shaker alludes to the name of Shakespeare's target of Green's attack, the spear shaker.
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