哈姆莱特 (名著名译)

by William Shakespeare, 朱生豪 (Translator)

《哈姆莱特》一直以来被誉为莎士比亚的巅峰之作。这部作品叙述了丹麦王子哈姆莱特为父报仇的故事。哈姆莱特在德国读书时，他的叔父克劳狄斯毒死老哈姆莱特，篡夺了王位，并霸占了哈姆莱特的母亲。哈姆莱特回国后，决定为父报仇。结果他误杀了情人奥非利娅的父亲，奥菲利娅因此疯癫自尽。国王乘机挑拨波洛涅斯的儿子雷欧提斯以比剑为名，设计用毒剑刺死了哈姆莱特。该剧的结尾，哈姆莱特、国王、王妃、雷欧提斯同归于尽。

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 25, 2014

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

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[Shay Luo · Rating 4 out of 5]

天堂的歸天堂，地獄的歸地獄。