The Dramas of William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world.
Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies and histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays "problem plays" that elude easy categorisation, or perhaps purposely break generic conventions, and has introduced the term romances for what scholars believe to be his later comedies.
内容简介
莎士比亚的戏剧，大部分都是根据旧剧本、编年史与小说故事创作的，在创作中注入了自己的先进理想，给旧的题材以丰富而深刻的内容，赋予它们新的生命，从内容到形式都进行了创新。莎士比亚是无与伦比的戏剧结构大师，他的剧本固然有悲、喜剧之分，但在创作实际中又打破了悲、喜剧的界限，不受严格的传统体裁划分的限制，从而展现出更丰富饱满的人性和人物的精神世界。他善于描写几条相互平行交错的线索，来促进生动复杂的情节发展。写作技巧上则表现出一种奇妙的戏剧紧迫感，逐渐加快的情节发展的节奏，往往有一种气呵成的神来之笔，令观众惊叹不已。
译者简介
朱生豪(1912—1944)，中国现代著名的翻译家、诗人。1912年2月2日生于浙江嘉兴，1929年入杭州之江大学。1933年大学毕业后，在上海世界书局任英文编辑，并创作诗歌。写有诗集多种，均毁于战火。1936年春着手翻译《莎士比亚戏剧全集》。他将莎士比亚戏剧分为喜剧、悲剧、历史剧、杂剧四类编排，自成体系，便于阅读。1941年日军进攻上海，他辗转流徒，贫病交加，仍以全部精力坚持翻译。1944年12月26日，因劳累过度，患肺病早逝，年仅32岁。他先后译有莎士比亚戏剧31种，部分散失。他所翻译的全部莎士比亚剧作富有激情，文辞华美，一直为广大的读者所喜爱。
目录
威尼斯商人(选段)
李尔王(选段)
罗密欧与朱丽叶(选段)
仲夏夜之梦(选段)
哈姆莱特(选段)
奥瑟罗(选段)
