世界闻名的英国文学史上最伟大的作家莎士比亚(William Shakes-peare 1564—1616)的作品,对我国非英语专业的大学生来说,一般认为高不可攀,望而生畏,去接触它的人很少。其实,莎剧并不全都是那么艰深难懂。解放前,大学英语课(为非英语专业学生开的)曾选过莎剧作教材(如清华大学吴宓先生在大二班上选用过《威尼斯商人》)。在公共英语班上用整本的莎剧作教材不见得合适,但象现在的大学生多数都学过六、 The work of William Shakes-peare (1564-1616), the world’s greatest writer in the history of the British literature, is generally considered unattainable and intimidating for non-English majors in China. There are few people who come into contact with it. In fact, Shakespeare’s play is not all that difficult and difficult to understand. Prior to liberation, college English classes (for non-English majors) had chosen Shakespeare as a teaching material (such as Tsinghua University’s Wu Jian used “Venetian merchants” in sophomore class). It is not appropriate to use the whole Shakespeare play as a teaching material in public English classes, but most of the students like the current students have learned six.