Romeo and Juliet (English-Chinese Contrast)

Author: (English) Shakespeare
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: Romeo suddenly forgets the person he originally loved and falls in love with Juliet at first sight, gets married in an instant, and recklessly dies. Juliet accepts all this with the gentle and melancholic love of a nightingale. Shakespeare's eternal love tragedy has been translated into Chinese in various versions, but the English-Chinese parallel edition of Mr. Cao Yu's translation is published for the first time. Mr. Cao Yu had many reflections while translating this play, and a passage is excerpted here for the readers: "I think this tragedy is full of optimistic sentiments and does not make people sad. It's like the weather in April, suddenly sunny and then rainy, like a girl who laughs loudly at one moment and then leans on your shoulder, crying softly the next."