在他的介绍中,拉斐尔提供了历史和社会背景,以增加读者对这部戏剧的理解。 在一篇结束语中,哈罗德·布鲁姆(Harold Bloom)认为,《罗密欧与朱丽叶》(Romeo And Juliet)是世界文学中无与伦比的,“它展现了一种不妥协的爱情,它会随着自身的理想主义和强烈程度而消亡。”
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables readers to fully understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is perhaps the most read and beloved of all stage works. This extensively annotated version of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and offers a rich resource for students, teachers, and the general reader.
Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. His on-page annotations provide readers with the tools they need to comprehend the play and begin to explore its many possible interpretations. This version of Romeo and Juliet isunparalleled for its thoroughness and adherence to sound linguistic principles.
In his introduction, Raffel provides historical and social contexts that increase the reader's understanding of the play. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Romeo and Juliet isunmatched in the world's literature "as a vision of an uncompromising love that perishes of its own idealism and intensity."
作者简介
伯顿·拉菲尔 (Burton Raffel) 是路易斯安那大学拉斐特分校的艺术和人文学科名誉教授和英语名誉教授。 在他编辑和翻译的许多出版物中,包括古英语的诗歌和散文、克利格斯、兰斯洛特、珀西瓦尔、埃雷克和伊尼德以及伊万,均由耶鲁大学出版社出版。 哈罗德·布鲁姆 (Harold Bloom) 是耶鲁大学人文学科斯特林教授和纽约大学伯格英语教授,着有许多书籍,包括《The Western Canon》、《Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human》和《 Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds》。
Burton Raffel was professor of arts and humanities emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Among his many edited and translated publications are Poems and Prose from the Old English, Cliges, Lancelot, Perceval, Erec and Enide, and Yvain, all published by Yale University Press. Harold Bloom was Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University and Berg Professor of English at New York University, and was the author of many books,including The Western Canon, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, and Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds.
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