Midsummer Night's Dream English original novel A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare

书名：A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏夜之梦
作者：William Shakespeare威廉·莎士比亚
出版社名称：Bantam Classic
出版时间：1988
语种：英文
ISBN：9780553213003
商品尺寸：10.6 x 1.5 x 17.4 cm
包装：简装
页数：224

A Midsummer Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》是英国剧作家威廉·莎士比亚青春时代非常成熟的喜剧作品，同时也是威廉·莎士比亚著名的喜剧之一，讲述了有情人终成眷属的爱情故事。
本书为Bantam Classic所出版的全英文版，体积轻巧，方便携带。附有Morris Dickstein所写前言，有助于读者理解作品。
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“创造得的是莎士比亚，他仅仅次于上帝。”  ——大仲马
“在英语文学中，莎士比亚是无可比较的，他胜过所有其他作家。”——英国散文家、诗人 约瑟夫•艾迪生
“莎士比亚有一颗通天之心，能够了解一切人物和激情。”—— 17、18世纪的英国古典主义者德莱登
“莎士比亚这种天才的降临，使得艺术、科学、哲学或者整个社会焕然一新。他的光辉照耀着全人类，从时代的这一个尽头到那一个尽头。” ——雨果
“我读到他的页．就使我一生都属于他了。读完部，我就像一个生下来的盲人，一只奇异的手在瞬间使我的双眼看到了光明……感谢赐我智慧的神灵。” —— 歌德

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》是莎士比亚极富创造性的剧作之一。莎士比亚把希腊、罗马神话和英国民间传说杂糅在一起。全剧描写了四个层次的人物：空灵虚幻的仙王、仙后、仙童和小仙；公爵和他的新夫人；两对青年男女；还有六个粗俗的工匠。他们之间的关系错综复杂，仙界的争吵引起天时的反常和人情的错讹。最后，仙王与仙后和好，两对青年在公爵的婚礼后也成了亲。
Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between art and life, dreams and the waking world.

威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare，1564~1616），英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家、诗人，欧洲文艺复兴时期人文主义文学的集大成者，全世界最的文学家之一。戏剧家本·琼森称他为“时代的灵魂”，马克思称他和古希腊的埃斯库罗斯为“人类伟大的戏剧天才”。他流传下来的作品包括约38部剧本、154首十四行诗、两首长叙事诗和其他诗作。他的剧本被翻译成所有主要语言，并且表演次数远远超过其他剧作家。直至今日，他的作品依然广受欢迎。

William Shakespearewas born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the King’s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna. She was born on May 26, 1583. Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585. By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright. A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as “an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.” Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later under James I, called the King’s Men). In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River. Here many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including Sir Thomas More and The Two Noble Kinsmen, and he wrote poems, including Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece. His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609. In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as The Tempest and Henry VII until about 1613. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.