罗密欧与朱丽叶 (名著名译插图本)

by William Shakespeare, 朱生豪 (Translator)

《罗密欧与朱丽叶》是莎士比亚著名戏剧作品之一。罗密欧和朱丽叶是两个世仇家族的继承人，二人于舞会一见钟情后，才知道对方身份，最后二人为了在一起，朱丽叶先服假毒装死，醒来发现罗密欧却因不明真相而殉情，最终也相继自尽。故事结束在阴差阳错，令人扼腕顿足。

457 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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[E · Rating 4 out of 5]

爱情是冲动，死亡是冲动，一切皆为谵妄，只有悲剧是为永恒。莎翁大概也不喜欢这种爱情，却令他故事里的主角一再受这种本能驱使，这便是人类亘久不变的飞蛾扑火般的欲念…所以是悲剧。《仲夏夜之梦》是喜剧，痴男怨女结合在了一起，但也说恋爱不过是幻想的化身，美梦过后一切空谈。善男信女们，勇敢陷入爱河吧，尽管这场残酷游戏注定无人生还。