Othello

　　以阿哥因為沒被奧賽羅升至重要職位而怨恨不已，他要如何復仇呢？啊哈！能讓奧賽羅最痛苦的方式，就是讓他親手摧毀自己的婚姻。

　　“Beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is a green-eyed monster that laughs at the meat it eats.”

　　閣下，要留心嫉妒啊！那是嘲笑獵物的綠眼妖魔。(Act III, Scene II)

　 　“A man or a woman’s good name, my dear lord, is the most important jewel of the soul. Who steals my purse steals trash. It was something, now it’s nothing. It was mine, now it’s his. It has belonged to thousands of others. But he who takes from me my good name robs me of that which does not enrich him, and makes me poor indeed.”

　　不論男女 的好名聲，親愛的閣下，是靈魂最重要的寶石。偷走我錢袋之人得到的是垃圾，原本是很重要，如今成了身外之物；原本是我的，如今成了他的，而它也曾屬於數以 千計的其他人。但是取走我的好名聲之人，他奪走的是無法使他富有、卻使我變得貧窮之物。 (Act III, Scene II)

　　莎翁名劇雋永優美，細膩的角色刻畫讓故事穿越文化與時空，引起廣大世人的迴響與共鳴。本書為英國文豪莎士比亞的著名劇作改寫，並保留劇本格式。經過精心改寫的文字，使莎劇簡明易懂又不失文學內涵，適合英語學習者閱讀，不再受古英文之苦，輕鬆享受閱讀經典的樂趣。

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　　Othello is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for her husband Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but his trusted ensign, the envious Iago, conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of the savagery lurking within civilization, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist. The play raises uncomfortable and pertinent questions about both racial identity and sexuality, as Othello and Desdemona's relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of Iago's attempt to destroy them. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), and includes an introduction by Ned Halley. 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.

威廉‧莎士比亞 William Shakespeare （1564－1616）

　　威廉．莎士比 亞出生於英國，被公認是英國文學史和戲劇史上最傑出的詩人和劇作家。父親在他十三歲時因經商失敗而破產，他因此無法上大學。他十八歲時娶了大他八歲的 Anne Hathaway，育有三名小孩。莎士比亞在1590年成為劇作家，起初只是模仿別的作家寫故事，藉此磨練寫作技巧，後來他越漸歡迎，最後成為成功的演員 與劇作家。

　　莎士比亞擅於刻畫人物心理，運用生動的戲劇語言扣動讀者心弦，他的故事結構嚴謹、情節豐富多元，更富含人生哲理。他一生共 寫了37部作品，可分成四個時期：歷史劇、喜劇、悲劇和浪漫喜悲劇。其中四大悲劇：《哈姆雷特》、《奧賽羅》、《李爾王》和《馬克白》寫於悲劇時期。這些 戲劇故事在世界各地不斷地改編、上演，數百年來雋永不朽，為他贏得最偉大的劇作家的聲譽。

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