1980年秋,小田岛雄志完成了莎士比亚全集的翻译,成为继坪内逍遥之后第二个完成翻译莎士比亚全集的日本人。当他因此而荣获艺术选奖和文部大臣奖等时,我曾写道,小田岛雄志译完莎士比亚全集确实是文学史上的一个重要事件,但其意义远不止于此。小田岛的莎剧译本不仅可以当做文学作品阅读,而且通过舞台及广播、电视等传播媒介, In the fall of 1980, Hiroko Ota completed the translation of the Complete Works of Shakespeare and became the second Japanese to finish translating Shakespeare’s Collection after he was relieved. When he was awarded the Arts Prize and Prize for Minister of Culture for that reason, I wrote that the translating of Shakespeare’s Complete Works by Naoto Ota is indeed an important event in literary history, but its significance goes far beyond that. Ota Island Shakespeare translation can not only be read as literary works, but also through the stage and radio, television and other media,