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The Blockhead39。 s Dream 《仲夏夜之夢》 Much Ado About Nothing 《無事生非》 Pericles, Prince of Tyre 《泰爾親王配力克里斯》 Taming of the Shrew 《馴悍記》 The Tempest 《暴風(fēng)雨》 Troilus and Cressida 《特洛伊羅斯與克瑞西達(dá)》 Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》 Two Gentlemen of Verona 《維洛那二紳士》 Winter39。All39。s Tale 《冬天的故事》 History Henry IV, part 1 《亨利四世上篇》 Henry IV, part 2 《亨利四世下篇》 Henry V 《亨利五世》 Henry VI, part 1 《亨利六世上篇》 Henry VI, part 2 《亨利六世中篇》 Henry VI, part 3 《亨利六世下篇》 Henry VIII 《亨利八世》 King John 《約翰王》 Richard II 《理查二世》 Richard III《理查三世》 Tragedy Antony and Cleopatra 《安東尼與克莉奧佩特拉》 Coriolanus 《科利奧蘭納斯》 Hamlet 《哈姆雷特》 Julius Caesar 《裘力斯?凱撒》 King Lear 《李爾王》 Macbeth 《麥克白》 Othello 《奧瑟羅》 Romeo and Juliet 《羅密歐與朱麗葉》 Timon of Athens 《雅典的泰門》 Titus Andronicus《泰特斯?安德洛尼克斯》 Poetry The Sonnets十四行詩 A Lover39。), Day 4 Story 1. Its ic elements are now less easy to perceive(感覺) due to welljustified postWorld War II distaste for antiSemitism(反猶太主義). The key figure now rarely seen as purely ic is Shylock, a reprehensible Jewish usurer(高利貸者). In fact, Shakespeare is unlikely to have intended(有意的) him to be the central character of the play at all. The story revolves around two main events: the winning of the beautiful Portia by a test involving gold, silver and lead caskets(首飾盒) and the borrowing of 3000 ducats(硬幣) by noble Bassanio from his merchant friend Antonio. Antonio in turn has to borrow this sum from Shylock and after a spell of ill fortune at sea he cannot pay the money back. As such, the evil Shylock demands a pound of flesh from the debtor. Portia, now wedded to Bassanio, dresses up as an advocate and defends Antonio in court by claiming that Shylock may have his pound of flesh but may not legally spill blood in doing so or he will forfeit(喪失) his life. The cunning of Portia and her servant Nerissa is consistently inspired and amusing, while the euppance(因果報(bào)應(yīng)) of Shylock is undeniably(不可否認(rèn)的) just and satisfying. These days Shylock can be played as a tragic character rather than a ical devil, but thi