William Shakespeare: Pericles Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest edited by David Bevington with a Foreword by Joseph Papp Bantam Classics

本书选收莎翁最脍炙人口的五部喜剧：《仲夏夜之梦》，《威尼斯商人》，《捕风捉影》，《温莎的风流娘儿们》，《暴风雨》。莎翁的喜剧成就与其悲剧一样斐然。他以文艺复兴时期人文主义者的乐观主义精神作为喜剧创作的基调，在作品中清晰地表达出要求个性解放、热爱现实生活、歌颂真挚爱情等人文主义思想，同时以笑声为武器，对各种各样阻挠社会发展的封建保守势力，给以无情的讽刺。作者以其深厚的功力，在一系列喜剧作品中刻画了众多令人过目难忘的人物形象，尤其是夏洛克和福斯泰夫，早已成为典型中的典型，喜剧人物刻画的典范。

Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics and religion. He describes Shakespeare's family life and his professional career as a working man of the theatre. He also discusses the printing and publishing of the plays, and recent developments in textual scholarship. Lastly, he considers questions affecting Shakespeare criticism. An essay by Andrew Gurr (University of Reading), on the staging of Shakespeare's plays explains, for example, how the plays were performed at the "Globe" theatre. An accompanying CD-ROM, "The Norton Shakespeare Workshop" is also available.

《BBC莎士比亚精选》讲述了1978年，英国广播公司计划将莎士比亚的所有剧作推上银幕，最后的成品，鉴于内容忠于原著精神，并请来戏剧界与电视界最优秀的人才参与，表演则是由当今演技最为精湛的一流演员担纲，因而名声大噪， 引人注目。

If there ever has been a groundbreaking edition that likewise returns the reader to the original Shakespeare text, it will be the Applause Folio Texts. If there has ever been an accessible version of the Folio, it is this edition, set for the first time in modern fonts. The Folio is the source of all other editions. The Folio text forces us to re-examine the assumptions and prejudices which have encumbered over four hundred years of scholarship and performance. Notes refer the reader to subsequent editorial interventions, and offer the reader a multiplicity of interpretations. Notes also advise the reader on variations between Folios and Quartos. The heavy mascara of four centuries of Shakespearean glossing has by now glossed over the original countenance of Shakespeare's work. Never has there been a Folio available in modern reading fonts. While other complete Folio editions continue to trade simply on the facsimile appearance of the Elizabethan "look," none of them is easily and practically utilized in general Shakespeare studies or performances.

'By far the best edition of King Lear - in respect of both textual and other matters - that we now have.'John Lyon, English Language Notes'This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe. I know of no other edition which I would recommend with such confidence: to students, professional colleagues and also the 'educated public'.'Dieter Mehl, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol 134

The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text."The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play."- Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare'Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.' - Stanley Wells, The Observer"(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, a status I suspect it will enjoy for many years to come" - The British Theatre Guide"Stunning! There is absolutely no doubt about this being the text to buy if you are studying the play at A Level. And the same stands for those students who will be studying the play at university. This critical edition gives the reader the Second Quarto Text (1604-1605), annotated with intelligence and care, a wealth of historical and cultural references and a survey of different critical approaches to the play."- The Use of English, The English Association

《仲夏夜之梦》是威廉·莎士比亚青春时代最后一部也是最为成熟的喜剧作品，同时也是威廉·莎士比亚最著名的喜剧之一。整部戏剧情调轻松，总的来说就是一个“乱点鸳鸯谱”的故事。剧中有穿插了小闹剧当作笑料，即众工匠为婚礼所排的“风马牛不相及”的喜剧以及排戏经过。这部戏剧没有什么深远的社会意义与内涵。它所包含的，只是纯净的快乐，仿佛是一部戏剧的狂欢，中间也掠过一丝爱情所固有的烦恼，但亦是加以欢乐化、喜剧化的。

本套书有两大特点：一是“全”，二是“新”。说它“全”，因为它收了莎氏39个剧本和他的长诗、十四行诗及其他抒情诗，包括“河滨版”在1974年收入的《两个高贵的亲戚》和1997年刚刚接纳的《爱德华三世》及一首长诗，再加上《托马斯·莫尔爵士》的片断，这样，已发现的莎氏存世作品就都在内了。说它“新”，因为它在校、译中吸收了国际莎学界的研究新成果，还恢复了被认为“不雅驯”而被删除的词句、段落等，以尽量保持莎氏作品的本来面目。

This edition of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare's play and the early modern culture out of which the play emerges. The texts include royal proclamations, speeches, court records, sermons, biographical writings, prayers, ballads, poetry, excerpts from plays and the Bible, and drawings, woodcuts, and engravings. These documents contextualize the role of rulers and government in Jacobean society, crime and punishment in London's underworld, the religious and secular laws that regulated marriage and sexuality, Catholic and Puritan morality, and the religious and cultural significance of chastity and virginity in Shakespeare's time. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, introductions to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

《暴风雨》 《维洛那二绅士》 《温莎的风流娘儿们》 《一报还一报》

This teaching edition of Shakespeare's "Macbeth" reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts from King James's writings on politics, contemporary writings on the nature of kingship and tyrannicide, Puritan and Catholic tracts, conduct book literature, and contemporary witchcraft pamphlets.

From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Othello, edited by prominent Shakespearean scholar Clare Carroll, includes Othello, Cary's The Tragedy of Mariam, Fair Queen of Jewry, and source materials on early modern ethnography and on women and gender. Longman Cultural Editions are a new series of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to Othello, the second volume offer Frankenstein, with selections from Mary Shelley's journals and contextual materials on Romantic images of Satan. Other titles offered in the series include Dickens' Hard Times, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Future titles will include Shakespeare's King Lear and Beowulf.

威廉·莎士比亚是欧洲文艺复兴时期英国伟大的戏剧家，他还是一位同样伟大的诗人。除了大量以对白表现人物与情节的诗体戏剧，他还写了不少分行押韵的抒情诗，包括几部长诗和一百五十四首迄今余味无穷、堪称绝品的十四行诗。几百年来，世人越来越认识到，莎士比亚不仅属于文艺复兴时期，也不仅属于英国。事实上，任何时代和任何地区的读者面对人类这份富饶而深湛的精神遗产，都可从中汲取于自己的成长、发育和修省大有裨益的养料。因此，人们一致认为，莎士比亚没有时限，没有国界，属于每个能读他、爱读他、永远也读不完他、甚至还读不懂他的读者自己。 莎士比亚一生写了据说共计三十七部戏剧，包括历史剧、喜剧和悲剧，分别属于他的三个各有侧重的创作时期；其中晚期所写的悲剧，集中了他的人生智慧，反映了可纳入善与恶两大伦理范畴的各种各样人性的矛盾和冲突，启发了人类对于自身及所处社会的深刻认识，则是他的艺术的精华之精华，他的人生观的奥秘之奥秘。本书所选就是这些悲剧中最具有代表性和普及性的五部，即《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《哈姆莱特》、《奥瑟罗》、《李尔王》和《麦克白》。 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》是其中几乎家喻户晓的一部，其主人公已成为世界文学作品中最出名、最大方、最受读者宠爱的一对情侣，剧中超越时空的绝对诗意及其道白（如阳台上相互倾心一段）迄今仍然沁人心脾，令人过目成诵。一对天生的冤家一见钟情，在由于宿怨而敌视这桩爱情的环境氛围中，将一切世俗顾虑置之度外，听从不可遏止的献身冲动而秘密结合了。他们对于爱情的英勇和坚贞，仅凭不可知的“上天”的祝福，抵御着一再来自人世的打击和挫折，直至二人被迫分离，终于在墓地重逢于九泉之下。这段凄婉而又悲壮的本事，到了作者的椽笔之下，说来令人惊叹，竟被凝成不过几天的情节衍变（星期日相遇，星期一结合，星期二被迫分离，星期四双双殉情），从而以行云流水的旋律，为主人公使感官净化、使性灵升华的爱情事业唱出了一首浪漫主义的雅歌。南国春夜的馥郁气息，夜写歌曲脉脉含情的音色，玫瑰含苞欲放的鲜艳光泽，彼特拉克十四行诗的诗意，在剧中到处呼之即出。然而，从初生爱情的大胆表白和羞怯回报，匆匆发展成不可遏止的献身冲动和义无反顾的秘密结合，继后又在狂喜与绝望的感情风暴的交替中，一直奔向两人即使在重重厄运中仍令天下有情人景慕多于悲悼的毁灭结局：这首浪漫主义雅歌之所以常唱常青，有取之不尽的新意，恰在于它所歌颂的那场生死与共的爱情并没有随着它的主人公们一起死亡，而是比他们活得更长久，在于那场爱情通过自我牺牲，促成两家世仇释嫌修好，从而取得对于任何使他们分离的恶势力的永远的胜利。

This teaching edition of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" responds to the needs of instructors using a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including feminist, historical, and cultural studies approaches. The play is accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations thematically arranged to offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and Shakespeare's work within that culture. The texts include facsimiles of period documents, excerpts of conduct literature on marriage and on wife and servant beating, sermons, popular ballads, literary works offering alternative endings to Shakespeare's play, and documents on women's legal status. The primary documents contextualize the play's treatment of assertive women, marital conflict, and domestic disorder and violence. Editorial features designed to help students read the play in light of the historical documents include an intelligent and engaging general introduction, and introduction to each thematic group of documents, thorough headnotes and glosses for the primary documents (presented in modern spelling), and an extensive bibliography.

A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespeare—the working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions by Stephen Greenblatt and his co-editors, glossaries and annotations, and an elegant single-column page (that of the Norton Anthologies), this edition of Shakespeare invites contemporary readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. Greenblatt's full introduction creates a window into Shakespeare world-the culture, demographics, commerce, politics, and religion of early-modern England—Shakespeare's family background and professional life, the Elizabethan industries of theater and printing, and the subsequent centuries of Shakespeare textual editing. length: (cm)23.2 　　　 　　　　　 　width:(cm) 15.2