《仲夏夜之梦》是莎剧中最常被搬演改编也是最受欢迎的喜剧之一,有不少人都还是透过《仲夏夜之梦》开始接触到莎翁作品。近几十年来,此剧因为含有梦的成分,因此受到不少心理分析大师的青睐。又因内容提及父亲意图掌握女儿,仙王意欲控制仙后,因此也有人引用女性主义来探讨此剧。 本剧叙述雅典城内的一对恋人荷米雅和莱桑德,荷米雅的父亲反对他们在一起,他要求公爵下令,若荷米雅不肯嫁给德米崔斯,就要判她死罪。荷米雅深爱莱桑德,又因德米崔斯曾对挚友海莲娜示爱,所以不愿依从父命。荷米雅和莱桑德决定逃出雅典,而热爱荷米雅的德米崔斯和迷恋德米崔斯的海莲娜,亦跟随这对恋人逃进森林。 林子里的仙王欧伯龙为帮助海莲娜赢取德米崔斯的爱,就命令帕克趁德米崔斯睡著时,把神奇的情水滴在他的眼脸上,待他醒来,就会爱上睁眼后第一个看到的人。未料阴错阳差,帕克搞错对象,把情水滴在莱桑德的眼上,使莱桑德爱上海莲娜。欧伯龙得知后,赶紧把情水滴在德米崔斯的眼里,让他也爱上海莲娜,然后再把解药倒进莱桑德的眼里解除魔法,而让德米崔斯继续迷恋海莲娜。荷米雅的父亲发现荷米雅和德米崔斯各有意中人后,也就答应了荷米雅和莱桑德的婚事,最后这两对恋人就双双在同一天举行婚礼。 整场戏就情节推演而言,可分三个部分:首先是一条地位崇高却荒谬无比的律法;其次,他们逃往林子后,精灵的介入使彼此爱的对象混淆,因而产生误解与冲突;最后,一阵混乱之后,终於恢复理智和谐。本故事发生在仲夏夜晚,故事的主人翁们一度失去自我,事实上在西方文化中,有所谓的仲夏疯(midsummer madness)和月晕(moonstruck),象徵黎明之时,混乱才能回复秩序,疑惑冲突才会得到解决。 此剧的架构如几何图形般对称,故事发生於城市与森林、清醒与睡眠、真实与梦幻之间,成为两两对比的元素。底修斯掌管现实的雅典城,欧伯龙则是梦幻的森林之王,分别象徵理智和潜意识。 森林代表激情、焦虑、混乱、不受管束,隐藏许多不可预测的因素,甚至有身分错置的危机,彷佛是一场纷扰的梦境,时空与真实世界截然不同。雅典城代表社会机制、社会运作的秩序,可以化解所有的冲突。 乡巴佬和帕克这两个角色,恰可以做为真实世界与梦幻世界的代表人物。庸俗也好,质朴也罢,许多评论家特别中意乡巴佬这个角色,认为他脚踏实地,对仙后的地位和法力不为所动,只关心找到路回家、觅食、搔痒、睡觉。帕克则是抱持游戏人间的态度,他捉弄村民,对自己找错对象、滴错情水不但不以为意,还觉得趣味十足,代表了对脱序状态的偏好。 另一个对称的安排是两两成双的恋人,莱桑德和德米崔斯,荷米雅和海莲娜,他们之间的角色互换,扑朔迷离。 本剧看似简单,实则具有不凡的文学与戏剧价值。另外,在莎翁众多的剧本当中,《仲夏夜之梦》也是少数极具原创性的剧本,不像其大部分的剧本,取材其他作品而融合改编。 此剧约於1595-96年间完成,虽然可能只是为一般大众而写的通俗剧,但也有部分学者认为是因应某节庆或某贵族婚礼而写就演出,所以充满希望和欢娱气氛。现代历法的仲夏指的是六月二十四日,但剧中提及五月节庆,所以故事发生的时间可能在五月。在早期,只有夏秋冬三个季节,夏天包含春天,所以仲夏便落在五月初,但确切的时间背景,莎士比亚并没有明白点出。 莎士比亚在当时期似乎特别偏好「梦」,在同时期的作品《理查二世》和《罗密欧与茱丽叶》中,「梦」字的出现也特别频繁,其在这三个剧本中出现的次数,就占了他所有剧作的三分之一。 梦境光怪陆离,醒来之后,知其不可思议,却不会令人无法接受,这就是梦的特质。潜意识藉由我们可感知的方式,在梦里呈现出来。梦处理不同於理性的情绪,透露我们的真正想法、感觉、欲望或恐惧等等,揭露隐而不见的潜意识。梦也带有预示作用,预示未来的可能变化。 据此,仲夏夜之「梦」属於预示的梦,梦醒后,恋情圆满成双,好友重修旧好,死罪撤销。但仲夏夜之「梦」又不是真正的梦,梦醒后之所以圆满,乃是因为精灵从中介入。所以剧终时,剧中人才会告诉观众读者,如果本剧显得似是而非、不合情理,那就当看戏是做梦,就把整出戏看作是一场梦吧。 提到精灵,伊莉莎白时期的人们大都相信精灵的存在,乡间尤其流传精灵传说。他们认为精灵和祖先凯尔特人(Celtic)同源,会骑马打猎、跳舞欢宴,也能够变身或是飞天隐形。精灵既对凡人慷慨赠与,也会惩戒凡人。他们处罚人类的方式常常是捏拧一把,或是用丑小孩来和人类的小孩调包。这些精灵一般都称为帕克(puck,意指淘气、喜欢恶作剧的小妖精)或者小妖魔(hobgoblin),他们多半喜欢在夜晚作怪,有些邪恶意味,有些大人会拿这些小妖怪来吓唬不听话的孩子。 此外,神话传说中的仙王一般就叫做欧伯龙(Oberon),仙后则称为戴安娜(Diana)、辛西亚(Cynthia)、妃比(Phoebe)或黑克悌(Hecate)等,而仙王的地位通常略逊於仙后。渐渐地,人们不再信仰精灵,但精灵仍成为通俗的娱乐文化中受人欢迎的主题,尤其是台上歌舞表演的主要角色。《仲夏夜之梦》中对仙王、仙后和帕克的描述,大致与传说吻合,这显示莎士比亚熟悉民间传说。他直接沿用各种传说,唯独仙后泰坦妮的名字取自欧维德的《变形记》。另外,帕克爱捉弄人,却无恶意,这似乎也是莎翁的创举。 本出戏中的有许多场景特别适於剧场表现,例如夏夜森林、森林精灵、精灵魔法、好事多磨的两对恋人,或是仙后和驴头乡巴佬的滑稽邂逅等等。事实上,这部戏的演出史简直就是精灵的造型史。十九世纪起,精灵的演出常由数十位歌者或舞者集体表现,他们或为儿童,或为少年,或为成人。此时,甚至也出现了东方造型的精灵。The midsummer night's dream "is the most often by spiritual aspect of adaptation is also one of the most popular comic, many people are still in the" midsummer night's dream "came into contact with Shakespeare works. In recent decades, the composition of containing dream because the psychological analysis, so by many master's favor. And because the content mention father intention master daughter, fairy intended to control fairy after the king, so some cite feminism to discuss narrative Athens city couple lotus shelemiah and rinaldo Thornton, lotus mia father opposed them together, he asked the duke ordered, if jose mia won't marry taemeeyaves areas, will doom she deserves. Jose mia deep love lai Thornton, and because of the sea areas taemeeyaves has friends, so shimei liana love the father would not according to life. Jose shelemiah and rinaldo Thornton decision, and love jose escape from Athens to shelemiah the taemeeyaves areas and fascination taemeeyaves sea areas, also follow liana, the couple escape into the woods fairy champions "dragon king to help the liana win taemeeyaves areas of love, while parker, he ordered taemeeyaves areas fall asleep, the magic feeling in his eye drop face, wait for he woke up, he will fall in love with open after the first saw. Not YinCuoYangCha, parker wrong object material, feeling droplets in lai Thornton eye, make leroy Thornton love Shanghai liana. Uefa "dragon that after, hurriedly pair of emotion in the eyes of the droplets taemeeyaves areas, let he also love Shanghai liana, then the antidote poured into the eyes of lai Thornton dispel magic, but let the sea areas continue to crush taemeeyaves liana. Jose mia father found lotus shelemiah and intentionally middleman after each taemeeyaves areas, also promised lotus shelemiah and rinaldo Thornton's marriage, finally the two lovers will both on the same day for the the play as the plot posteriori character, can divide three parts: first is a lofty but preposterous law, Secondly, they fled to the woods, elves in love each other objects of confusion, generating misunderstandings and conflicts, Finally, a chaos after, finally come to his senses harmony. This story happened in the midsummer night, the story of the once losing self masters, in fact in western culture, there are so-called midsummer mad (midsummer no remedy for) and YueYun (moonstruck), symbolic of dawn, confusion can resume order, confused conflict will be architecture of a symmetric, such as geometry in city and story to happen with sleep, forests, sober truth and fantasy, become pairwise comparison between the element. Bottom hughes over reality in Athens, Europe "dragon is the dream of the king of the forest, respectively symbolic reason and represents passion, anxiety, chaos, do not suffer bundle, hidden many unpredictable factors, and even have misplaced the identity crisis, fang Buddha is a troubled dreams, time and real world are quite different. Athens representative social mechanism, social operation order, can be resolved all and parker these two roles, just can be used as the real world and the representative figure of a dream world. Vulgar or plain or many critics particularly interested hick this role, think he down-to-earth, after the status and to fairy mana immoveable, only care about finding way home, foraging, itching, sleep. Parker is held the game world attitude, he zhuonong villagers, to oneself barking the wrong affection, dripping water not only, still feel interest dye-in-the-wood yawn, represents the state of dislocation of symmetrical arrangement is opposite in pairs of lover, SangDeHe taemeeyaves areas, jose lai shelemiah and sea liana role exchange between them, complicated and looks be like simple, actually has extraordinary literature and drama value. In addition, many of the script of Shakespeare, "a midsummer night's dream" is also a few very original screenplay, unlike most of its script, based on the other works and fusion at about the 1,595-96 years finish, possibly even for the general public and write the surviving madness, but there are also some scholars think because YingMou festivals or a noble wedding and write show, so full of hope and joyous atmosphere. Modern calendar mid-summer refers to June 24th, but the mentioned may festivals, so the story happened time may in May. In the early days, only xia qiu dong season, summer contains three spring, so the midsummer fell upon early may, but the exact time background, Shakespeare and no understand when period seems particularly preference "dream", in the same period work "Richard ii" and "romeo and Juliet" dreams "word, emergence also special frequent, its in these three in the frequency of the script, occupy all of his plays the weird, woke up, know its incredible, but not totally unacceptable, this is the dream is idiosyncratic. Subconscious perception by the way we can, in dreams appear. Dream processing is different from the rational emotions, reveal our real thoughts, feelings, and desires or fear, etc., expose hidden not subconscious mind. Dream also contains indicate role, predict the future may , the midsummer night's dream "belongs to predict the dream, we wake up, courtship perfection in pairs, buddy mend fences, obsequies revoked. But midsummer night's "dreams" and not of real dream, we wake up is satisfactory, but because the elves to intervene. So when the play, the talented person can tell the audience reader, if the appear specious and inaccurate, then when theatre is a dream, he put the whole play as a dream!Refer to the elves, Elizabeth period of most people believe the elves of existence, the countryside especially circulated elves legends. They think elves and ancestors celtics (Celtic) wangjue, will ride hunting, dancing huanyan, also can transform or flying invisible. The elves both to mortals generous donation, also can disciplinary mortal. They punish human way is often knead twist a, or with ugly kid to and human child making the switch. These elves are usually called parker (puck, mean naught, like gag goblins) or little monsters (hobgoblin), most of them like at night, some evil ultra-left, means that some adults will take these little devil to frighten mutinous addition, the fairy myth and legend is called Europe "king general dragon (Oberon), fairy after is called got wind of Diana, Cynthia (Cynthia), celestial Phoebe) than (or black grams relationships between adults (Hecate), etc., and the king's position usually slightly fairy as fairy. Gradually, people no longer beliefs elves, but elves still become popular entertainment culture in the popular theme, especially on the main role and dance performances. The midsummer night's dream "of fairy, the king of fairy after parker and description, roughly and legend anastomosis, it shows that Shakespeare familiar folklore. He directly, but the fairy tales used various Titan ni after the name from uefa vader's "transfiguration record". In addition, parker playing tricks on people, but no malice, it also seems to be Shakespeare in the play is especially suitable for the many scenes summer performance, such as theatre forest and forest elves, elven magic, the two lovers often brings misfortune, or fairy after the donkey head hillbilly's funny and encounter, etc. In fact, this drama performance history simply elves modelling history. The 19th century onwards, elves performance often by dozens of singer or dancer collective performance, they or for children, or for young, or for adults. At this time, even also appeared Oriental modelling of elves.后面是网上翻译的