出版社: Penguin Classics
出版年: 2007-7-26
页数: 160
定价: GBP 2.00
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140620658
内容简介 · · · · · ·
King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, G...
King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton
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威廉·莎士比亚 作者
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0 有用 SYZZZ 2012-01-29 10:38:48
最简单最真实的一段人性
4 有用 bks 2017-09-05 02:30:35
凭Lear那么养女儿,出现Cordelia绝对是小概率事件。Goneril和Regan那种缺乏安全感,一拿到权力马上排除异己的人更像是常年活在他淫威之下的人。莎士比亚的确是大神,他是怎么写出这么多性格鲜明的人物的。
1 有用 Magnolia 2011-10-29 21:43:25
Madmen and fools are Shakespeare's' spokesmen.
4 有用 monomania 2011-12-22 11:31:21
The oldest hath borne most; we that are young. Shall never see so much, nor live so long- Edgar
0 有用 西番茄 2012-04-02 12:39:47
加孙大雨译本。"Ripeness is all."
0 有用 克劳德狗子 2024-01-26 21:40:13 黑龙江
一部神话。又是一部溢出体裁的作品。真爱你的人最严格与温柔,你却以为自己的光芒可以照彻真空。两个女儿如同双头蛇配合得当,将老王逼到墙角敲骨吸髓,一个狠得卑琐,一个狠得果决。李尔弄臣Cordelia都是fool,傻瓜和小女儿相继陪伴老王,直到他重获自我认知与爱。李尔精神的晶体一再被敲碎,肉体喃喃道请为我解开纽扣。暴风雨夜 starless and bible black,被圈禁在肮脏的小屋中,又生长出... 一部神话。又是一部溢出体裁的作品。真爱你的人最严格与温柔,你却以为自己的光芒可以照彻真空。两个女儿如同双头蛇配合得当,将老王逼到墙角敲骨吸髓,一个狠得卑琐,一个狠得果决。李尔弄臣Cordelia都是fool,傻瓜和小女儿相继陪伴老王,直到他重获自我认知与爱。李尔精神的晶体一再被敲碎,肉体喃喃道请为我解开纽扣。暴风雨夜 starless and bible black,被圈禁在肮脏的小屋中,又生长出安得广厦千万间的高尚。 零落的战场,Albany重整秩序却浸透死亡与无力,一切被打碎却无法粘合,热心的人尽数飘零,但人性的游丝在野旷天清中终不会随着死亡断裂。ripeness is all。 (展开)
0 有用 peyote 2023-11-23 23:51:49 湖南
不行,我个人真读不来
0 有用 kambing 2023-07-25 13:36:19 浙江
莎士比亚作为人文主义者对人类普遍悲剧的清醒认识
0 有用 heresya 2023-06-02 15:01:43 北京
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.
0 有用 微凉 2022-12-13 04:32:49 美国
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