英文名著分集阅读 詹妮弗·巴西特《威廉·莎士比亚》part2

William Shakespeare by Jennifer Bassett

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Chapter 2: Stratford upon Avon

It was a sunny day in October 1579 when I first met Will, just outside Stratford,near a big field of apple trees. I saw a boy up in one of the trees. He had red hair and looked about two years older than me. “What are you doing up there?” I called. “Just getting a few apples.” he said, smiling. “Those are farmer Nash's apples,” I said, “And he'll send his dogs after you if he sees you.” “Mr.Nash's gone to market,” the boy said, “Come on, they're good apples.” Next minute, I was up the tree with him, but Will was wrong. Farmer Nash wasn't at the market, and a few minutes later, we saw his angry red face above the wall on the far side of the field. Will and I ran like the wind and only stopped when we reached the river. We sat down to eat our apples. Will was 15 and lived in Henley Street. He told me his father was John Shakespeare and he had a sister, Joan, and two younger brothers, Gilbert and Richard. There was another sister who died, I learnt later. And the next year, he had another brother, little Edmund, the baby of the family. “Now what about you?” he asked. “There's only me and my sister,” I said, “My parents are dead and we live with my mother's brother. He's a shoemaker in Ely Street, and I work for him, what do you do?” “I go to Mr. Jenkins School in Church Street,” Will said, “every day from 7 o'clock until 5 o'clock, not Sundays, of course.” I was sorry for him. “Isn't it boring?” I asked. “Sometimes,usually it's all right.” He lay back and put his hands behind his head, “But we have to read and learn all these Latin writers. I want to read modern writers and English writers like Jeffrey Chaucer, can you read?”He asked. “Of course I can read,” I said, “I went to school.” Will sat up and began to eat another apple. “I want to be a writer,” he said. “A poet, I want that more than anything in the world.” We were friends from that day until the day he died. We met nearly every day, and he taught me a lot about books and poetry and writers. He always had his nose in a book. When Will left school, he worked for his father in Henley Street. John Shakespeare was a glove maker, and he had other business too, like buying and selling sheep, but Will wasn't interested. “What are we going to do, Toby?” he said to me one day, “We can't spend all our lives making shoes and gloves.” “Will,”I said, “we could run away to sea and be sailors, sail round the world like Francis Drake.” Drake sailed back to Plymouth in 1581 after his three-year journey round the world,but we were still in Stratford. We made lots of plans, but nothing ever came of them. Will was still reading a lot, and he was already writing poems himself. He sometimes showed them to me, and I said they were very good. I didn't really know anything about poetry then, but he was my friend. Will was not happy with his writing. “I've got so much to learn, Toby.” he said, “So much to learn.” Poor Will, He had a lot to learn about women too. One day in October 1582, he came to my house with a long face. “I'll never leave Stratford,” he said. “Why not?” I asked, “We'll get away one day, you'll see.” “Perhaps you will,” he said, “But I'm going to be married in a few weeks time to Anne Hathaway.” Mymouth fell open and stayed open. “Married to Anne Hathaway? Is that the Hathaways over at Shott Toy?” “Yes.”Will said. I was working on some shoes on the table, and Will picked one up and looked at it. “Will, she's a fine girl?” “Of course.” I said uncomfortably, “But, but Will, she's 26 and you're only 18.” “I know,” Will said, “But I've got to marry her.” “Oh no,” I said, “You mean She's…” “That's right,” said Will, “In about 6 month time, I'm going to be a father.”

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第二章：埃文河畔斯特拉特福

1579年10月的一天，天气晴朗，我在斯特拉特福镇外、一片大苹果园附近，第一次遇见了威尔。 我看见一个男孩正爬在一棵苹果树上。他长着一头红发，看起来比我大两岁左右。 “你在上面干嘛呢？”我朝他喊道。 “摘几个苹果。”他笑着说。 “那是纳什农夫的苹果，”我说，“要是被他看见，他会放狗咬你的。” “纳什先生去集市了，”男孩说，“快上来吧，这苹果可甜了。” 下一秒，我也爬上了树和他待在一起。不过威尔猜错了，纳什农夫