书名：莎士比亚四大悲剧4册套装

作者：William Shakespeare
出版社名称：Penguin Press
出版时间：2015
语种：英文
商品尺寸：每册约12.7 x 1.5 x 19.6 cm
包装：平装
页数：约272页/册x 4册（以实物为准）

本套装《莎士比亚四大悲剧4册套装》收录了戏剧界经典的四个悲剧作品，均创作于莎士比亚的巅峰时期。一经发表便被翻译成各种语言，被全世界的戏剧迷奉为至宝。同时，莎翁的戏剧也是英语戏剧语言文学的代表，十分适合喜欢英语阅读或者希望提高英语学习成效的读者。

本套装包括如下4册书：
1. Macbeth《麦克白》
2. Hamlet《哈姆雷特》
3. Othello《奥赛罗》
4. King Lear《李尔王》

推荐理由：
1.收录了莎士比亚4部经典的悲剧作品，方便文学爱好者阅读与对比；
2.各大名人、高校推荐阅读书单中不可缺少的作品；
3.书中附有对莎士比亚生平和作品的详细介绍，让读者进一步了解这个伟大的剧作家；
4.经典文学作品，有利于提高读者的英语阅读水平。
1. Macbeth《麦克白》

本书讲述苏格兰国王邓肯的表弟麦克白将军，为国王平叛并抵御入侵立功归来。凯旋路上，他遇到三个女巫，预言说他将进爵为王。归来后，他在夫人的怂恿下谋杀邓肯，做了国王。为掩人耳目并防止他人夺位，他一步步害死了邓肯的侍卫，害死了将军班柯，害死了贵族麦克达夫的妻子和小孩。麦克白内心充满了恐惧和猜疑，他变得越来越冷酷，众叛亲离。麦克白面对邓肯之子和他请来的英格兰援军的围攻，落得削首的下场。
Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appalling earthly crimes have lasting supernatural repercussions. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by George Hunter with an introduction by Carol Rutter. 'By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes' Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, and spurred on by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

2. Hamlet《哈姆雷特》
本书讲述丹麦王子哈姆雷特的父王在花园中打盹时突然神秘死去，皇叔继位并娶母后为妻，这令哈姆雷特深觉羞愧与愤怒。他对父亲的死因有所怀疑，忧郁过度，终日愁容满面。某夜他遇见父王鬼魂诉冤，终于知道原来是皇叔为篡位娶嫂而毒害亲兄。为报父仇他假装发疯以避开皇叔监视，并请戏班进宫表演一出与父王被杀经过十分相似的戏剧，逼使叔父原形毕露，结果他却误杀恋人奥菲莉亚的父亲，导致她因此发疯坠河而死。他的母亲后来也误饮毒酒身亡。优柔寡断的王子终于在怒不可遏之下杀死万恶的叔叔。
This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by T.J.B. Spencer with an introduction by Alan Sinfield. 'To be or not to be - that is the question' Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. When young prince Hamlet is confronted by his father's ghost on the battlements of Castle Elsinore, he is burdened with a terrible task: slay King Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, who the ghost alleges murdered him. Wrestling with his conscience, Hamlet feigns wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge, alienating his mother Queen Gertrude and spurning his lover Ophelia. But the act of insanity takes Hamlet perilously close to the reality, wreaking havoc on guilty and innocent alike.

3. Othello《奥赛罗》
本书讲述了黑人将军奥赛罗与美丽善良的苔丝狄蒙娜相爱而秘密成婚。旗官伊阿古因所求之职，被奥赛罗给了卡西奥而怀恨并决意报复。他设计使卡西奥触犯军纪被撤职，又鼓动苔丝狄蒙娜向奥赛罗求情，致使奥赛罗因怀疑爱妻与卡西奥有染而妒火中烧并亲手将其掐死。当伊阿古的妻子揭穿阴谋时，奥赛罗拔剑自刎，倒在苔丝狄蒙娜的尸体上。
This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Kenneth Muir with an introduction by Tom McAlindon. 'O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.' A popular soldier and newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet, when his supposed friend Iago sows doubts in his mind about his wife Desdemona's fidelity, and his friend Cassio's true intentions, he is gradually consumed by suspicion. In this powerful tragedy, innocence is corrupted and trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies.

4. King Lear《李尔王》
本书讲述的是不列颠国王李尔年事已高、年老昏聩、刚愎自用，把国土分给了虚伪的大女儿戈纳瑞和二女儿里甘。小女儿科迪莉亚虽然诚实善良，却因不愿阿谀奉承而被驱逐到国外。科迪莉亚接受了法兰西国王的求婚，随同其去了法国。李尔王放弃了王位，仅保留国王的尊号和一百名侍从，准备在两个女儿家中安度晚年，却被她们赶出家门，在荒郊野外饱受颠沛流离之苦。科迪莉亚得知李尔王的凄惨遭遇，起兵讨伐两个姐姐，不幸失败，李尔王抱着小女儿的尸体，也在悲痛疯癫中死去。
An ageing king makes a capricious decision to divide his realm among his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youngest daughter refuses to take part in this charade, she is banished, leaving the king dependent on her manipulative and untrustworthy sisters. In the scheming and recriminations that follow, not only does the king's own sanity crumble, but the stability of the realm itself is also threatened.
威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare，1564－1616），英国文学史上杰出的戏剧家和诗人，欧洲文艺复兴时期重要的作家。他流传下来的作品包括38部戏剧、155首十四行诗、两首长叙事诗和其他诗歌。由于莎士比亚在戏剧方面的巨大成就，被喻为“人类文学奥林匹克山上的宙斯”，影响了包括狄更斯、歌德、巴尔扎克等一代又一代的文学家，并同古希腊三大悲剧家埃斯库罗斯（Aeschylus）、索福克勒斯（Sophocles）及欧里庇得斯（Euripides）合称戏剧史上的四大悲剧家。

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare’s vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.