麦克白 MacBeth

基本信息

Series:Thrift Editions

Format:Paperback / softback 96 pages

Publisher:Dover Publications Inc.

Imprint:Dover Publications Inc.

ISBN:9780486278025

Published:1 Feb 2000

Weight:80g

Dimensions:212 x 136 x 6 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《麦克白》（全名《麦克白的悲剧》）是威廉·莎士比亚的一部悲剧，据信该剧于 1606 年演出。该剧戏剧化地描述了政治野心对那些为权力而追求权力的人造成的身体和心理上的破坏性影响。在莎士比亚在詹姆斯一世统治期间创作的所有戏剧中，詹姆斯一世是莎士比亚表演公司的赞助人，《麦克白》清楚地反映了剧作家与君主的关系。该剧于 1623 年出版在对开本中，可能是从一本即兴书中出版的，是莎士比亚短悲剧。

一位名叫麦克白的勇敢的苏格兰将军从三个女人那里得到预言，有一天他将成为苏格兰国王。在妻子的怂恿下，麦克白被野心所吞噬，谋杀了邓肯国王并夺取了苏格兰王位。随后，他被内疚和偏执所折磨。为了保护自己免受敌意和怀疑，他被迫犯下越来越多的谋杀，很快成为了一个暴君。杀戮和随之而来的内战迅速将麦克白和麦克白夫人带入了疯狂和死亡的境界。

莎士比亚的故事来源是霍林斯赫德编年史 (1587) 中对苏格兰国王麦克白、麦克德夫和邓肯的记述，这是一部莎士比亚和他的同时代人都熟悉的英格兰、苏格兰和爱尔兰历史，尽管剧中的事件与真实的麦克白的历史大不相同。悲剧事件通常与 1605 年亨利·加内特因参与阴谋而被处决有关。

在戏剧的后台世界里，一些人认为这部戏剧被诅咒了，不会大声提到它的标题，而是称它为“苏格兰戏剧”。几个世纪以来，这部戏剧吸引了许多知名演员来扮演麦克白和麦克白夫人。该剧还被改编成电影、电视、歌剧、小说、漫画和其他媒体。

Macbeth ( full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare; it is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. Of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of James I, who was patron of Shakespeare's acting company, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with his sovereign. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy.

A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of women that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death.

Shakespeare's source for the story is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. The events of the tragedy are usually associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as "The Scottish Play". Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comics, and other media.

作者简介

威廉·莎士比亚（约 1564 年 4 月 26 日 - 1616 年 4 月 23 日）是一位英国剧作家，被许多人誉为世界上ZUI伟大的英语作家。他的戏剧作品包括《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《哈姆雷特》、《麦克白》等。

William Shakespeare (c. 26 April 1564 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, renowned by many as the world's greatest writer in the English Language. Among his plays are ""Romeo and Juliet"", ""Hamlet"", ""Macbeth"" to name but a few.