书名：Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night; The Tempest《莎士比亚四大喜剧：驯悍记/仲夏夜之梦/第十二夜/暴风雨》
作者：William Shakespeare 威廉·莎士比亚
出版社名称：Signet Classics
出版时间：1998
语种：英文
ISBN：9780451527318
商品尺寸：10.6 x 2.9 x 17.5 cm
包装：简装
页数：438 （以实物为准）

Four Great Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Twelfth Night; The Tempest《莎士比亚四大喜剧：驯悍记/仲夏夜之梦/第十二夜/暴风雨》收录了戏剧界颇为经典的四个喜剧作品，均创作于莎士比亚的鼎盛时期。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崇高代表，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。
“Comedies,” as one of William Shakespeare’s contemporaries wrote, “begin in trouble and end in peace.” This is certainly true of the four masterworks selected for this collection, each of which represents a significant stage in the development of the world’s greatest dramatist. Reading these plays, we sample the whole comic spectrum of the Elizabethan world—from the satiric comedy that portrays a world of people whose unreasonable behavior is ludicrous and in need of reform to the romantic comedy that takes us into a dreamlike holiday world whose inhabitants, for all their folly, are still endearing characters. And to give these plays more meaning for the modern reader, this edition includes the following special features:
·Reliable texts by noted Shakespeare scholars
·Texts printed in the clearest, most readable type
·Names of each speaker given in full
·Detailed footnotes at the bottom of each page keyed to the numbered lines of the text
·Textual notes
·Updated bibliography

Four of the Bard’s most famous comedies—including The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest. 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏夜之梦
The Taming of the Shrew 驯悍记
The Tempest 暴风雨
Twelfth Night 第十二夜

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. 

Twelfth Night,Act 1, Scene 1 
CURIO:
Will you go hunt, my lord?
DUKE ORSINO:
What, Curio?
CURIO:
The hart.
DUKE ORSINO:
Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn’d into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E’er since pursue me.
Enter VALENTINE
How now! what news from her?
VALENTINE:
So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years’ heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother’s dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.
DUKE ORSINO:
O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill’d the flock of all affections else
That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill’d
Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.