莎士比亚起来

创建于2005-12-18     组长： 支离疏

Shakespeare was born in 1564, married at eighteen, left Stratford at 21, perhaps because of a charge of poaching, reached London at the age of 22, and wrote Henry VI, Part One, at the age of 27 or 28. His first poems come out when he is 29, and his sonnets are written from the ages of 29 to 32. At 33, he’s made enough money – out of the theater, not the plays, until Henry IV – to buy a house in Stratford. From the ages of 35 to 37 he writes his most important comedies, from 36 to 40 his unpleasant plays, from 40 to 44 the great tragedies, and from 44 to 47 the romantic comedies. At 46 he appears to have retired to Stratford. At 47 he wrote The Tempest. At 52 he dies. （Auden’s account of Shakespeare’s life）


If ever any author deserved the name of an Original, it was Shakespeare...he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature, and ‘tis not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.
（Alexander Pope, “Preface to the works of Shakespeare）.



严复提起过“狭斯丕尔”，一提便完；梁启超说过“莎士比亚”，也不见有人注意；田汉译了这人的一点作品，现在似乎不大流行了。到今年，可又有些“莎士比亚”“莎士比亚”起来 －－ 鲁迅 《花边文学》




The best in this kind are but shadows
A Midsummer Night’s Dream