莎士比亚喜剧五种 (Five Comedies of Shakespeare)

本书选收莎翁最脍炙人口的五部喜剧：《仲夏夜之梦》，《威尼斯商人》，《捕风捉影》，《温莎的风流娘儿们》，《暴风雨》。莎翁的喜剧成就与其悲剧一样斐然。他以文艺复兴是时期人文主义者的乐观主义精神作为喜剧创作的基调，在作品中清晰地表达出要求个性解放、热爱现实生活、歌颂真挚爱情等人文主义思想，同时以笑声为武器，对各种各样阻挠社会发展的封建保守势力，给以无情的讽刺。作者以其深厚的功力，在一系列喜剧作品中刻画了众多令人过目难忘的人物形象，尤其是夏洛克和福斯泰夫，早已成为典型中的典型，喜剧人物刻画的典范。(This book including five comedies of Shakespeare which have wined universal praise: A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest. The comedy achievement is the same brilliant with his tragedies. Shakespeare takes optimistic spirit of humanist in the Renaissance period as the comedy creating keynote. Humanist thoughts have been clearly expressed in his works including individual liberation requirement, love real life and in praise of sincere love, etc. At the same time, he takes laughter as the weapon to relentless satirize every kinds of feudal conservative force that obstruct social development. With his profound ability, Shakespeare has created many impressive figures in a series of comedies, especially Shylock and Falstaff, they have been typical of the typical and the model of comedy characterization.)