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英語系、戲劇系表演或戲劇選讀課程，對莎士比亞戲劇有興趣的一般讀者。

作者簡介

     A visiting professor at Fu Jen CatholicUniversity, Ching-Hsi PERNG isProfessor Emeritus, National Taiwan University, where he retired asDistinguished Professor of English and Drama. Among some thirty books to hiscredit are three studies on Shakespeare and Chinese translations of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice. He is also co-playwright (with Fang Chen)of Bond, a bangzi adaptation of TheMerchant of Venice, and co-editor (with Beatrice Biqi Lei) of Shakespeare in Culture. His currentproject is a new annotated Chinese version of Measure for Measure.

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Part I Introduction

I. An Overview of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Soliloquy 013

II. Reciting Shakespeare’s Dramatic Language 020

Part II Dialogue with Monologue

I. Language as Hormone: Juliet’s Shortened Girlhood 033

II. Who’s the Addressee?—Four Types of ShakespeareanSoliloquies 051

Part III Selected Soliloquies from Shakespeare withBrief Commentary

I. from Romeo and Juliet 079

1 “O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?”—Readby R. Nordli 080

2 “The clock struck nine when I did send the nurse.”—Read by R. Nordli 082

3 “Gallop apace, you fiery-footed steeds” —Read byR. Nordli 084

4 “Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend” —Readby R. Nordli 086

5 “Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again.” —Readby R. Nordli 087

II. from Twelfth Night 090

1 “I do I know not what, and fear to find” —Readby R. Nordli 090

2 “I left no ring with her: what means this lady?” —Readby R. Nordli 091

3 “’Tis but fortune, all is fortune.” —Read by W.Diggle 093

III.  from 1 HenryIV103

1 “I know you all, and will awhile uphold” —Read by P. E.Johnson   104

2 “ ‘But for mine own part, my lord’ ” —Read by L.Banovez   105

3 “’Tis not due yet, I would be loath to pay him”— Readby A. Hutchinson   107

4 “Well, if Percy be alive, I’ll pierce him.” —Read by A.Hutchinson   109

5 “O Harry, thou hast robb’d me of my youth!” —Read by L.Banovez   110

6 “For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart!” —Readby C. H. Perng   111

7 “Emboweled? If thou embowel me today” —Read by C. H.Perng   112

IV.  from 2 HenryIV   114

1 “How many thousand of my poorest subjects” —Read by P.E. Johnson   114

2 “Why doth the crown lie there upon his pillow” —Read byP. E. Johnson   116

V.  fromMacbeth   118

1 “Two truths are told” —by C. Ware   119

2 “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shall be” —Read by R.Nordli   121

3 “The raven himself is hoarse” —Read by R. Nordli   123

4 “If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well” —Readby W. Diggle   124

5 “Is this a dagger which I see before me” —Read by E.Schoen   127

6 “Out, damned spot! Out, I say” —Read by R. Nordli   129

7 “Seyton!—I am sick at heart” —Read by PatrickSiler   131

8 “I have almost forgot the taste of fears.”—Read by C.H. Perng   133

9 “She should have died hereafter.”—Read by C. H.Perng   133

VI. from Hamlet 132

1 “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt” —Readby I. Christiansen 132

2 “To be, or not to be, that is the question” —Readby E. Schoen 135

3 “O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!” —Readby R. Nordli 138

4 “O, my offence is rank! It smells to heaven.” —Readby M. R. Pauley 140

5. “Now might I do it pat, now a is a-praying” —Readby N. Whitmer 142

6 “And England, if my love thou hold’st at aught” —Readby M. R. Pauley 144

7 “How all occasions do inform against me” —Readby B. Marshall-Rashid 146

VII. from The Merchant of Venice 148

1 “How like a fawning publican he looks!” —Read byG. J. Penzick 148

2 “Certainly, my conscience will serve me” —Readby L. Banovez 150

3 “So may the outward shows be least themselves.” —Readby S. Wilson 152

Part IV Some Long Speeches with Brief Commentary

I. from The Merchant of Venice 159

1 “You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,” —Readby R. Nordli 159

2 “The quality of mercy is not strained.” —Read byR. Nordli 161

II. from King Lear 163

1 “Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!” —Readby J. Graves 163

III. from The Tempest 166

1 “You do look, my son, ina moved sort,” —Read by J. Graves 166

Acknowledgments

In 2009 I published a study, in Chinese, of Shakespeare’ssoliloquies, along with thirty-six soliloquies and four long speeches, in bothEnglish and Chinese, taken from nine plays. The present volume is its English version.

The occasion for the writing of the book was explained inthe Chinese version. For this version, I would like to take this opportunity tothank the following persons and organizations:

—Ms. Shan-shan Kuo, Executive Director of TSMC Education andCulture Foundation. At her invitation I gave a series of lectures on Shakespeare’ssoliloquies in the spring of 2002 for interested audiences in Xinzhu. That ledme to seriously study this fascinating field.

—The National Science Council, for a generous grant thatenabled me to carry out researches in Shakespeare’s soliloquies.—Professor GwenYao, an admirable actor and supportive colleague

of mine at National Taiwan University. Together wedesigned several new courses on Shakespeare’s soliloquies.

—NTU students in my Shakespeare-related courses over theyears, who bravely took up the Bard challenge and stuck it out.

—Mr. Joseph Graves and Ms. Robin Nordli, for theirencouragement and enduring friendship—and for recording their recitations.—Mr.Raymon Caldwell and Mr. John Dodd, Artistic Director and Executive Directorrespectively, of the Texas Shakespeare Festival, and

their actors, who, for pure love, gallantly took time outof their busy schedule to record recitations of the selected pieces for thebook. The actors are acknowledged individually in the Table of Contents alongwith the pieces they read.

—The Ministry of Education, for a generous travel grantthat allowed me to visit the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 2005.

—The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, for the generoushospitality given to me and five other Taiwan scholars during the tripmentioned above, and for providing some photographs for the book.

—Bookman Publishers, for publishing the Chinese version.

—The National Bureau of Compilation and Translation, forthinking good enough of the book to help subvent the cost of the publication ofthis translation.

—Professor Thomas Sellari of National ChengchiUniversity, who carefully read the draft and made many useful suggestions for improvementbesides making some corrections.

—The anonymous reviewer who spotted many typos.