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1、8 英语泛读教程1-Unit Three-Text 2英汉对照 Text OneThe Best Playwright in Englandby Jennifer Bassett1 The plague came and in September 1592 the City Council closed the theatres in London. They didnt open again until June 1594. 2 After the plague years, we were busy all the time. There were new companies of pla
2、yers and Will now belonged to the Lord Chamberlains Men. The Lord Chamberlain was a very important man, close to the Queen, and we often put on plays for the Queens court, and in the houses of the great lords of England. We had some very good actors. There was Will, and Richard Burbage, of course, a
3、nd John Heminges. And there was Augustine Phillips, Henry Condell, and Thomas Pope. There were other actors, too, but those six were the real company. They worked together for more than twenty years. 3 Will was specialbecause he wrote the plays. And what plays they were! He never wrote the same play
4、 twice, like some writers. He was always trying something new, something different. And he wrote fast, too. 4 John Heminges could never understand that. How can you write so fast, Will? he asked Will. And you never make a mistake or change a word.5 Will didnt really understand it himself. Its all in
5、 my head, he said. I think about it, and then it just comes out on paper.6 He wrote a play about love in 1595. Young love. It was Romeo and Juliet. It was a very sad play, because the young lovers die at the end. But the playgoers loved it. They wanted to see it again and again. 7 Will played the pa
6、rt of old Capulet, Juliets father. One of the boy actors played the part of Juliet. There were no women actors, so boys played all the womens parts. Of course, Will never put real love-making on stage. He did it all with words clever, beautiful words, and you forgot that the women and girls were rea
7、lly boys in dresses. Some of the boy actors were very good, and went on to play mens parts when they were older. 8 The year 1596 began well, but that summer the weather was really bad. Cold. Wet. It never stopped raining, and the plague began to come back into London. 9 One wet August evening I came
8、 to Wills room. He was just sitting there.not doing anything, just sitting. 10 Whats happened? I asked. What is it?11 He looked at me. Hamnet . he began. Hamnet was ill last week, and.and he died, yesterday. He was only eleven, Toby, and hes dead. My boy. My only son. Hes dead, Toby. Dead. He put hi
9、s face in his hands. 12 We sat together, silently. I knew that Will loved that boy of hisred-haired, bright as a new penny, full of life. Just like his father. 13 Richard Burbage said once that Wills writing changed after Hamnets death. Will still laughed at people in his plays, but he also felt sor
10、ry for themsorry for all the world, good and bad, rich and poor, young and old. And his people were real. No one was all good, or all bad. 14 There was a man called Shylock in his play The Merchant of Venice. This Shylock was a money-lender and a cruel maneveryone hated him. But in the end, when Shy
11、lock lost everything, you had to feel sorry for him. He was just a sad old man. 15 Perhaps Richard was right. And if anyone understood Will, it was Richard Burbage. 16 Every year we took more and more plays to court at Christmas. In 1598 one of Wills plays was Henry IV. A lot of the play was about t
12、he Kings son and his friend, Sir John Falstaff. Sir John was old, fat, lazy, drank too much, talked too much, laughed too much. But you had to love him. He was a great favorite with the London playgoers, and there were a lot of Falstaff jokes going round at the time. 17 After the play, the Queen wan
13、ted to speak to Will. 18 We all watched while Will walked over to the Queens chair. She was an old woman, she wore a red wig, and she had black teeth. But she was still a very great queen. And if the Queen was not pleased. 19 Mr. Shakespeare, she began. Then she smiled, and suddenly you knew why all
14、 Englishmen loved the Queen. It was like the sun coming out on a spring morning.20 Mr. Shakespeare, you are the best playwright in England. I enjoyed your play, and I thought that Sir John Falstaff was very funny. I have known many Englishmen like him. Will you write me another play? I would like to
15、 see Sir John in love.21 When Will came back to us, his eyes were bright, but he was already thinking about it. 22 Dont talk to me, he said. Ive got a play to write.23 He wrote it in two weeks, and we took it down to Richmond Palace and played it before the Queen on February the 20th. She laughed an
16、d laughed at The Merry Wives of Windsor. 24 In September we opened the Globe theatre. It was a grand, new building near the Rose. Will, Richard Burbage, and the others paid for it themselves. It was the best playhouse in London, and soon the most famous. The other companies had good theatres and som
17、e good actors, but we had the famous Richard Burbageand the best plays. 25 Wills next play was Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. We all met one day to talk about it. There were six of us me and Will, Richard Burbage, Henry Condell, John Heminges, and Augustine Phillips. 26 Will put his pile of papers on th
18、e table and sat down. 27 Well, he said. Youve all read it. What do you think?28 Its very good, John Heminges began, but its too long. Itll take about four hours in the theatre.29 We dont have to use it all, Will said. We can cut it down to three hours, perhaps two and a half.30 Richard will play Pri
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