A Midsummer Night's Dream是讲什么的?我想知道这个故事是讲什么的．thx!

A Midsummer Night's Dream是讲什么的?我想知道这个故事是讲什么的．thx!
A Midsummer Night's Dream是讲什么的?
我想知道这个故事是讲什么的．thx!

A Midsummer Night's Dream是讲什么的?我想知道这个故事是讲什么的．thx!
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM仲夏夜之梦
莎翁笔下的一段错综复杂四角关系.一对年轻的情侣,Hermia和Lysander相约在树林,计划双双私奔,但他们不知道一直暗恋Hermia的Demetrius在秘密跟踪他们,而与Demetrius相恋的Helena也紧随至树林.四人在这树林内,却不知道这树林已被下咒.
《仲夏夜之梦》是莎士比亚著名的一个喜剧,作者在此作品中清晰地表达了一种新的观念,一种支持恋爱自由、婚姻自主的新观念.
这是因为在当时封建社会的婚姻观念,盛行一种观念:婚姻的是建筑在门第、权势和财富上、排斥爱情的买卖婚姻,又向来由封建家长包办代替.莎士比亚对当时封建思想体系的婚姻观念有另一种看法,所以他透过这作品来反映他的思想,他认为婚姻必须建筑在爱情的基础上,爱情是一种纯洁的、值得珍惜的感情,是自由的,却又是盲目的,所以故事中的角色都是反抗封建包办婚姻,是自由意志的表现的.我在想,莎士比亚的思想可谓进步得很...
This is a story version of William Shakespeare's mixed up love story A Midsummer Night's Dream.The story is by Charles and Mary Lamb and is found in their book Tales from Shakespeare.
THERE was a law in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they pleased; for upon a daughter's refusing to marry the man her father had chosen to be her husband,the father was empowered by this law to cause her to be put to death; but as fathers do not often desire the death of their own daughters,even though they do happen to prove a little refractory,this law was seldom or never put in execution,though perhaps the young ladies of that city were not unfrequently threatened by their parents with the terrors of it.
There was one instance,however,of an old man,whose name was Egeus,who actually did come before Theseus (at that time the reigning Duke of Athens),to complain that his daughter Hermia,whom he had commanded to marry Demetrius,a young man of a noble Athenian family,refused to obey him,because she loved another young Athenian,named Lysander.Egeus demanded justice of Theseus,and desired that this cruel law might be put in force against his daughter.
Hermia pleaded in excuse for her disobedience,that Demetrius had formerly professed love for her dear friend Helena,and that Helena loved Demetrius to distraction; but this honourable reason,which Hermia gave for not obeying her father's command,moved not the stern Egeus.
Theseus,though a great and merciful prince,had no power to alter the laws of his country; therefore he could only give Hermia four days to consider of it:and at the end of that time,if she still refused to marry Demetrius,she was to be put to death.
When Hermia was dismissed from the presence of the duke,she went to her love Lysander,and told him the peril she was in,and that she must either give him up and marry Demetrius,or lose her life in four days.
Lysander was in great affliction at hearing these evil tidings; but recollecting that he had an aunt who lived at some distance from Athens,and that at the place where she lived the cruel law could not be put in force against Hermia (this law not extending beyond the boundaries of the city),he proposed to Hermia that she should steal out of her father's house that night,and go with him to his aunt's house,where he would marry her.'I will meet you,' said Lysander,'in the wood a few miles without the city; in that delightful wood where we have so often walked with Helena in the pleasant month of May.'
仲夏夜之梦的人物介绍：
男主角＝Lysander赖衫德
女主角＝Hermia赫米雅
皇后,国王,精灵,父亲,驴子 etc