But Shakespeare's influence is felt far beyond our language. His words, his plots and his characters continue to inspire much of our culture and wider society. Nelson Mandela, while a prisoner on Robben Island, cherished a quote from Julius Caesar which said “Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once. While Kate Tempest's poem “My Shakespeare captures the eternal presence of Shakespeare when she wrote that Shakespeare “…is in every lover who ever stood alone beneath a window…every jealous whispered word and every ghost that will not rest. Shakespeare's influence is everywhere, from Dickens and Goethe to Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Brahms; from West Side Story to the Hamlet-inspired title of Agatha Christie's “The Mousetrap – the longest-running theatre production in London's West End today. While his original plays continue to entertain millions – from school halls across the world to the overnight queues as hundreds scrambled for last minute tickets to see Benedict Cumberbatch playing Hamlet at London's Barbican last year.
而莎翁的影响远不止语言。遣词造句、情节构思、人物塑造等,无不为人类文化和社会带来灵感。尼尔森·曼德拉在罗本岛服刑时曾以《裘力斯·凯撒》中的名句“懦夫一生死多次,勇者一生死一回激励自己。凯特·坦皮斯特在诗中写道:“莎翁是孤独的恋人,是爱慕的低语,是无法安息的灵魂,这是对不朽作品的很好诠释。无论是狄更斯、歌德,还是柴可夫斯基,威尔第和勃拉姆斯,从西城故事到深受《哈姆雷特》启发的篇名——《捕鼠器》(作者是阿加莎·克里斯蒂,该剧在伦敦西区常演不衰),我们都能找到莎翁的影子。他的作品为数百万人带来乐趣,不仅是学校,去年,大家彻夜排队,就为了观看在伦敦芭比肯艺术中心由本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇主演的《哈姆雷特》。
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