本書是“劍橋文學指南”叢書中的一本，是繼劍橋1971年版《新莎士比亞研究指南》以來，西方莎士比亞研究領域的又一成果。本書共收錄論文17篇，系統(tǒng)地闡述和研究了莎士比亞生平、莎士比亞及其時代的思想、莎士比亞時代的劇場與演員、莎士比亞喜劇與悲劇的傳統(tǒng)、莎土比亞再版本 本書前言特色及評論文章節(jié)選1 The life of Shakespeare ‘All that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare， is-that he was born at Stratford upon Avon，-married and had children there，-went to London， where he commenced actor， and wrote poems and plays， returned to Shakespearian scholar of the eighteenth century， George Steevens. His remark has been often quoted， and others have made essentially the same comment in less memorable words. But Steevens exaggerated， and since his time much has been learned about the poet， his ancestors and family， and his Stratford and London associations. There facts， it is true， are of a public character， and are recorded in official， mainly legal， documents-conveyances of property，tax assessments and the like; as such， they afford no insight of literary biography. Yet we know more about Shakespeare than about most of his fellow playwrights. John Webster，for example， the author of two great tragedies， remains little more than an elusive ghost. And， however impersonal， what we know about Shakespeare is not without interest or meaning. The parish register of Holy Trinity Church records his baptism on 26 April 1564. Tradition assigns his birthdate to the twenty-third. An interval of three days between birth and christening is not unlikely， and supporting evidence is provided by the inscription on the dramatists tomb， which states that he died on 23 April 1616，in his fifth-third year.
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