′Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!′Dramatic and tragic in mood, King Lear explores a king′s demise into madness and insanity when he is betrayed by two of his manipulative and scheming d
Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespea
李爾王心力交瘁，他希望能在老邁時安享天年，因此將國度交給女兒們繼承。但他的慷慨得到了什麼回報呢？背叛、戰爭……和瘋狂混亂。“Nothing can come of nothing.” 無話可說即無有所得。 (Act I, Scene I)“You shouldn’t have grown old until you were wise.”你不應該在你變得睿智之前就先變得老邁。 (Act I, Sc
十九世紀英國教育極重視莎翁作品，1806年英國作家高德溫（William Godwin）邀請了查爾斯．蘭姆（Charles Lamb）協助「少年圖書館」的出版計畫，查爾斯於是和姊姊共同合作，將莎翁的劇本改寫為適合青少年閱讀的故事，而出版了《莎士比亞戲劇故事集》（Tales from Shakespeare）。 本書採用蘭姆姊弟（Charles and Mary Lamb）改寫的故事，不同於莎翁的原
In this thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. When the youn
