莎士比亚最成功、最受欢迎的历史剧。
Shakespeare’s art of mingling comedy, history and tragedy reached its peak in the two parts of King Henry the Fourth. As history, the plays paint a panorama of England, embracing a wider social range than any previous historical drama as the action moves from court to tavern, council chamber to battlefield, city to country, Archbishop and Lord Chief Justice to whore and thief. As comedy, they tell the story of a prodigal son’s journey from youth to maturity and an old rogue’s art of surviving by means of jokes, tall tales and the art of being not only witty in himself but ‘the cause that wit is in other men’. As tragedy, they reveal the slow decline of a king who cannot escape his past, the precipitate demise of an impetuous young warrior who embodies both the glory and the futility of military heroism, and the heart-breaking dismissal of a substitute father who has loved a prince with a warmth of which his true father is incapable.
《亨利四世》(下)讲述了亨利四世在位时期,青年王子亨利(即位后称亨利五世)的活动。
The Second Part of Henry the Fourth is the only Shakespeare play that is a “sequel,” in the modern sense, to an earlier play of his. Like most sequels, it repeats many elements from the previous work, Henry IV, Part 1. This play again puts on stage Henry IV’s son, Prince Hal, who continues to conceal his potential greatness by consorting with tavern dwellers, including the witty Sir John Falstaff.
- 出版说明
- 莎士比亚诗体重译集序
- 《亨利四世》二联剧导言
- 人物简介
- 开场诗
- 第一幕
- 第二幕
- 第三幕
- 第四幕
- 第五幕
- 收场白
- 四开本较对开本多出的段落
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- 笔记
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