纷纷红紫已成尘，布谷声中夏令新。不知不觉中，春天的脚步渐渐远去，夏日的气息日渐浓郁。美好的夏夜里，总藏着妙趣横生的奇遇。今天，我们继续为大家推荐英国作家威廉·莎士比亚的经典喜剧《仲夏夜之梦》。盲目而炽热的爱情，荒诞却温柔的梦境，莎翁的一支妙笔，写尽了有情人的痴狂、世俗的羁绊和大自然的浪漫。此刻，让我们一同徜徉于这片仲夏森林，在轻松欢笑中感受戏剧的独特魅力。

INTRODUCTION（节选自A Midsummer Night’s Dream）

...Certianly, if you want gritty realism, you’ll find little of it in the text of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Instead, you find fairies, autocrats, rural buffoons, and a bizarre mixture of ancient and modern, of what is supposedly the legendary Grecian past and rural Elizabethan England. It’s a surrealistic world in which the magic wielded in the inner action extends onwards and outwards to what probably was a real-life wedding. Layers on layers, worlds within worlds: there is a recessive quality created by the craftily hierarchical plotting; and at the centre of the plot is that gross breach of hierarchy, when Bottom, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced in moonlight by Titania, queen of immortals...

 

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HELENA  How happy some o’er other some can be!

       Through Athens I am thought as fair as she,

       But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so:

       He will not know what all but he do know.

       And as he errs, doting on Hermia’s eyes,

       So I, admiring of his qualities.

       Things base and vile, holding no quantity.

       Love can transpose to form and dignity.

       Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind:

       And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

       Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste:

       Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

       And therefore is Love said to be a child,

       Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

       As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,

       So the boy Love is perjured every where.

       For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia’s eyne,

       He hailed down oaths that he was only mine.

       And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,

       So he dissolved, and show’rs of oaths did melt.

       I will go tell him of fair Hermia’s flight:

       Then to the wood will he tomorrow night

       Pursue her; and for this intelligence,

       If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:

       But herein mean I to enrich my pain,

       To have his sight thither and back again.

 

词汇学习

• admire  vt. 钦佩，赞赏，羡慕；称赞，夸奖
• quantity  n. 量，数量；大量
• haste  n. 匆忙，急速；草率
• oath  n. 誓言，誓约；咒骂，诅咒语
• melt  v. 融化，熔化

（单词注释来自有道词典）

马克思称莎士比亚为“人类最伟大的戏剧天才”，可其人究竟如何？出身商贾之家，未受过完整教育，早早结婚，又早早离家，在伦敦混迹市井，随即一朝发迹，在戏剧界、文学界一跃成名。他跌宕起伏而又充满神秘色彩的一生，同那个时代的英国历史风物一道，被镶嵌在其诸多作品中。从《哈姆莱特》《威尼斯商人》到《亨利四世》《暴风雨》，莎士比亚的剧作至今仍在被诵读、被演绎，而作品中蕴含的对社会与历史、人性与情感的独到见解，亦不因时间的变迁而蒙尘。莎士比亚绝不仅仅属于一个国家、一个时代。他是世界的，他属于所有世纪。

Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. This book presents the main currents of these exciting but relatively little known engagements with Shakespeare. It illustrates the meaning the Romantics took from Shakespeare. It studies the critical practices and theories that evolved in England, Germany and France as well as the English stage and the relations between performance criticism and scholarship.

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