2016年,时值莎士比亚逝世400周年。莎士比亚是英国文学史上最杰出的戏剧家,也是欧洲文艺复兴时期最重要和最伟大的文学家。莎剧对中国一百多年来的影响是巨大的。莎剧与《哈姆莱特》不仅被搬上剧场舞台,随着时代新媒体的出现和发展,其以多种形式在全世界不断得到传播、改编并产生新的巨大影响。正是中国对西方经典话剧“中国化”的尝试,才开创了中国现代以来的一个艺术门类。 In 2016, the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. Shakespeare was the most prominent dramatist in the history of British literature and the most important and greatest writer in the European Renaissance. Shakespeare’s impact on China over a hundred years is enormous. Shakespeare and Hamlet have not only been brought onto the stage of the theater, but have also been continuously disseminated and adapted all over the world in various forms with the advent and development of new media in the era. It is China’s attempt to “Westernize” the classic Western drama that started an art category in modern China.