聖誕節常演的戲
● 胡桃鉗
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", by way of Alexandre Dumas' adapted story 'The Nutcracker'. It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on Sunday, December 18, 1892, on a double-bill with Tchaikovsky's opera Iolanta.
外國人會用爆米花裝飾聖誕樹,所以才會有老鼠
● 小氣財神
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
大亨小傳也是個novella, 十日談是個frame story(裡面的故事都是novella組成的)
十日談是為了躲瘟疫
Quarantine是檢疫的意思, qua代表4,在但丁神曲地獄裡有提到當時為了躲黑死病將船隔離40天為了讓老鼠死掉
當時威尼斯疫情最嚴重(因為都是水)所以才會有面具節(因為得病臉上會長東西)
● 麥琪的禮物
"The Gift of the Magi" is a short story, written by O. Henry (a pen name for William Sydney Porter), about a young married couple and how they deal with the challenge of buying secret Christmas gifts for each other with very little money. As a sentimental story with a moral lesson about gift-giving, it has been a popular one for adaptation, especially for presentation at Christmas time. The plot and its "twist ending" are well-known, and the ending is generally considered an example of comic irony. It was allegedly written at Pete's Tavern on Irving Place in New York City.
The Magi 東方三賢人(wise men)
看著星星找到耶穌的(所以聖誕樹上面才要放星星)
找到耶穌後,將盒裝禮物送給耶穌(所以現在才會送禮物時要包裝)乳香incense,黃金gold,跟墨藥myrrh
伊索寓言
●Aesop's Fable
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct短的 fictional story
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in popular as well as artistic media.
Quiz 10
6: The Grimms protested the abolition of their current German:
A) Monarchy
B) Constitution
C) Legal system
D) Import/export standards
ab負面字 abortion, abandon, abolish
7: The first version of a Cinderella story appeared in:
A) England
B) France
C) China
D) India
中國有葉限故娘的故事
8: In the original version of their story, which hero(es) did not survive?
A) Hansel and Gretel
B) Red Riding Hood
C) Sleeping Beauty
D) Snow White 被生時是雪裡面一抹血
*puberty青春期
10:Who directed the recent film based loosely寬鬆地 on the life of the Brothers Grimm?
A) Tim Burton
B) Ron Howard
C) Quentin Tarantino
D) Terry Gilliam
格林童話
Cannibalism Hensel and Gretel 的故事含有食人意涵
*lexicographer製作字典的人
Pied Piper of Hamelin 魔音傳腦
有歷史元素牽扯在裡面的