uncle tom's cabin 英文简介和作者简介,急!
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故事从英国女教师安娜（Anna Leonowens）应邀前往暹逻）担任暹逻王的家庭教师开始，直到暹逻王驾崩，太子朱拉隆功于父王病榻旁即位为止。
创作起源
1862年安娜·李奥诺文斯（Anna Leonowens）应暹罗王室的邀请，由新加坡前往当地担任拉玛四世的家庭教师直到1867年她搬到加拿大为止，后来她将此经历写成回忆录《安娜与国王:曼谷皇宫六年回忆录》（The English governess at the Siamese court : recollections of six years in the royal palace at Bangkok），描述暹罗王室的生活百态。
到了1944年，英国作家玛格丽特·兰登将此作品改编成小说《安娜与暹逻王》，该作不但大受欢迎，也得到1930年代百老汇女星葛楚德·劳伦斯（Gertrude Lawrence）青睐，将推荐该作给音乐剧创作搭档罗杰斯与汉默斯坦（Rodgers & Hammerstein），希望他们改编成音乐剧作品，可是两人皆兴趣缺缺，但又不愿得罪这位当红巨星，因此将创作计划搁置一旁。
1946年，《安娜与暹逻王》改编成同名电影，由雷克斯·哈里逊（Rex Harrison）和艾琳·邓恩（Irene Dunne）分饰国王与安娜。该部电影不但得到好评，也改变了理察·罗杰斯（Richard Rodgers）和奥斯卡·汉默斯坦二世（Oscar Hammerstein II）的想法，决定改编这部充满“异国情调”的小说成为他们新的音乐剧。
登上舞台
罗杰斯与汉默斯坦心中饰演安娜的女主角，自然是早先向他们推荐该题材的女星葛楚德·劳伦斯，但却始终找不著饰演国王的男主角：最早两人属意雷克斯·哈里逊或阿弗列·德雷克（Alfred Drake）等明星担当演出，但均未得到他们的同意，最后只好公开征选角色。于是，他们看上了玛莉·马汀（Mary Martin）推荐的法国男演员 — 尤·伯连纳（Yul Brynner）。除了演员之外，他们找了杰洛姆·罗宾斯（Jerome Robbins）负责编舞，全剧卡司至此大致底定。
剧情架构
剧情
全剧描述安娜·李奥诺文斯在泰国生活的情形，并以她与逻暹王之间的互动为主轴，穿*与王室成员、首相、泰婷之间的互动。剧中焦点摆在安娜与国王之间的关系：两人由见面，共同生活而发展出似有若无的情愫，进而出现两人共舞，以及剧终逻暹王“托孤”的情节·除此之外，《汤姆叔叔的小屋》（Uncle Tom's Cabin）改编成的泰国式戏剧也是剧中一大特点。
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1862年的某一天，安娜·李奥诺文与儿子路易搭著商船来到曼谷的港口。她是受逻暹王的邀请，担任王室的家庭教师。当船尚未靠岸时，逻暹首相卡拉宏已带著手下搭船前来迎接。由于迎接阵仗十分巨大，路易不禁有些害怕。于是安娜教儿子以口哨吹出快乐的曲调，这样害怕将离他而去...。终于，首相登船迎接母女俩。他用看似谦卑实则威吓的态度与安娜说话，并要他们将行李搬到皇宫去。但安娜却十分不满：根据契约，逻暹王答应给她宫外一间房屋住，但现在他却反悔了。为此她对首相表达*，但首相却说自己无权处理。此举另安娜对此行感到有些后悔，但既然到了曼谷，她决定还是和首相一同前往王宫见逻暹王。
华丽的皇宫令*两*开眼界，但国王此时却忙于政事：此时缅甸献来了贡品 — 一名叫泰婷的美丽少女，而国王也接受了她。而安纳趁著国王准备离开座位时，冲入厅堂要求国王履行约定，给她一间房屋。但国王毫不理会，只派皇后香夫人为她安顿行李，并令其先住在皇宫后，便自行离去。
1.《国王与我》(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049408/)
2.在互联网电影数据库（http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E4%BA%92%E8%81%94%E7%BD%91%E7%94%B5%E5%BD%B1%E6%95%B0%E6%8D%AE%E5%BA%93&;variant=zh-cn）
3.百老汇网络数据库上的《国王与我》(http://www.ibdb.com/proction.asp?id=1935)
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"汤姆叔叔的小屋"
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作者简介 . . .
Harriet Beecher Stowe was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the seventh of nine children. Her mother, Roxana Foote Beecher, died five years later of tuberculosis. For the rest of her life Stowe remembered her mother as the embodiment of the nineteenth-century conception of "true womanhood ": an ideally pious, benevolent woman who exerts her powerful Christian influence through gentle example and accomplishes her domestic tasks with quiet grace and impeccable skill. Roxana became a model for the mother heroines of Uncle Tom, characters who haunt their children and who resonated deeply with Stowe's audience. Stowe's father, Lyman Beecher, was an energetic clergyman, reformer, and ecator. He was also a stern, bullying patriarch.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin, described by Stowe herself as a "series of sketches" depicting the human cruelty of slavery, opens with a description of Arthur Shelby's Kentucky plantation ring the antebellum period. Although Shelby is not characterized as a cruel master, he has nevertheless incurred serious debts- prompting him sell some slaves to avoid financial ruin. Mr. Haley, the slave trader, purchases Uncle Tom, Shelby's loyal servant since childhood, and five-year-old Harry, a beautiful and talented child who sings, dances and mimes. Shelby regrets taking the child away from his mother, Eliza, as much as he regrets betraying Uncle Tom's faithfulness. Eliza overhears Mrs. Shelby, a very religious woman, protesting her husband's decision, and decides to flee the plantation with her son. George, her husband from a neighboring plantation, has already left for Canada via the "underground railroad," a secret network of people who usher runaway slaves to freedom in the North. Eliza plans to do the same, and tries to convince Uncle Tom to save himself and come with her. Uncle Tom, however, must remain loyal to his master, despite his betrayal and the risk of death at the cruel hands of a new master, and does not accompany Eliza on her journey to the Ohio River.
Haley searches for Eliza in vain, for she is spurred on by fear of losing her child and reaches the river quickly. Amazingly, Eliza crosses the river by jumping from one ice flow to the next. Upon reaching the shore in Ohio, Mr. Symmes, a man who has observed her brave feat, listens to her story. Fortunately, Symmes hates slave traders and thus takes Eliza and Harry to the house of Senator Bird, where they receive food and lodging. Ironically, Bird has just voted for a bill prohibiting aid to fugitive slaves, but the Senator is very moved by Eliza's story. He thus changes his convictions and takes the runaways to a Quaker settlement, where they stay with the Halliday family. Coincidentally, Eliza's husband George has sought refuge in this very community, and the young family is reunited. The Quakers help the family board a ship for Canada before Haley's hired slave hunters, Loker and Marks, can capture them.
After the hunt for Eliza and Harry fails, Haley returns to Shelby's to collect the other half of his purchase, Uncle Tom. The slaves at the plantation are very mournful, but Tom remains placid and tries to read his Bible for comfort. On the steamboat to New Orleans, where Tom is to be sold, Tom befriends an angelic little girl, "Little Eva" St. Clare. Uncle Tom saves the five-year-old beauty from drowning, and she convinces her father to buy Tom for her own family. Tom finds life on the St. Clare plantation agreeable, for although he is head coachman he spends most of his time with Little Eva. The love and goodness of which she constantly speaks influences those around her, convincing people of their inner value and that of the people around them. Eva even manages to convince the impish slave girl Topsy that she deserves to be loved, and touches the heart of her stern aunt, Miss Ophelia, who has traveled from Vermont to manage the plantation because Mrs. St. Clare is a hypochondriac.
Tom's contentment does not last, however, because Eva soon falls ill. Dying, she asks that all the slaves surround her bedside, where she gives each of them a golden lock of hair and tells them they must Christian so that they can see each other in heaven. Eva implores Mr. St. Clare to free Tom after her death. Mr. St. Clare is so distraught by her death, however, that he never legally frees Tom before he himself is killed trying to mediate a barroom scuffle. Mrs. St. Clare sells the slaves to settle her husband's debts, and the deplorable Simon Legree purchases Tom. Legree is a drunkard who beats his slaves brutally. Only one of his slaves, Cassy, defies her master by threatening to do voodoo on him. Cassy tries to help Uncle Tom, but he is a pacifist and will not resist the terrible beatings Legree inflicts upon him.
Mr. Shelby, in the meantime, has been tracking Tom down, and arrives at the Legree plantation one day. By this time, however, Tom is very near death. Once Tom is dead and buried, Shelby takes a steamboat to Kentucky, where he meets Cassy and another slave from Legree's, Emmeline, who are fleeing the plantation. The three then meet Emily de Thoux, who is George Harris's sister, and discover that Cassy is the mother of Eliza. Once in Kentucky, Shelby frees his slaves. Cassy, Emmeline, and Emily travel to Canada where they are reunited with Eliza and George. The Harris family and Cassy eventually travel to Liberia to found a freedom colony for ex-slaves. The novel ends with a chapter summarizing the lesson learned from these "sketches" of experiences with slavery: that slavery is indeed a very cruel and evil institution that should be abolished.
