The Sonnets

　　《十四行詩》是莎士比亞通過一系列事物的歌頌、詠歎和抨擊，表達了他的宇宙觀、世界觀、人生觀和審美觀。通過對友誼和愛情的歌頌，提出了他所主張的生活最高準則：真、善、美，和這三者的結合。向世人宣稱，他將永遠歌頌真善美、永遠歌頌這三者的結合。

　　本書中譯本<<十四行詩集>>由木馬文化出版

　　The Sonnets of William Shakespeare, a cycle of 154 linked poems, were first published in 1609. Filled with ideas about love, beauty and mortality, the sonnets are written in the same beautiful and innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare's plays. The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man known as the 'Fair Youth', while others are directed at a 'Rival Poet', and a 'Dark Lady'.

　　This Macmillan Collector's Library edition contains all of the poems, which explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, they are the most complete and moving meditations on love ever written.

　　With an afterword by Peter Harness.

　　Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

莎士比亞 William Shakespeare／原著

　　西方文學史上最偉大的劇作家，也是全世界最知名的文學家之一。

　 　他留下來的作品包括38部戲劇、154首十四行詩、兩手長敘事詩以及其他作品。他的戲劇至今仍以原貌或改編形式在全世界各地演出，累積演出次數到目前為 止也無人能及。也或者化身成電視、電影、歌劇、小說、漫畫、廣播劇等不同媒介進入人們的生活。他作品中那些貪婪、天真、浪漫、衝動、優柔寡斷等複雜生動的 人性到今日依舊能引起共鳴，他觸碰到的問題如種族歧視、公平正義，仍能引起大眾深思。

　　William Shakespeare (1564-1616) was an English dramatist, poet, and actor, generally regarded as the greatest playwright of all time.