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Listen to part of a lecture in a literature class.
請聽文學課上的部分內(nèi)容。
So, um, in France Academy, which was created to uphold standards of literary taste, it was a very conservative organization.
那么，在法國有一個法國學會，它是成立來維護文學品味的標準的，是一個非常保守的組織。
It tried to keep things a certain way...uh...resist change, it dictated that French plays should neoclassical in form,
它試過將事物保持特定形式，抵制變化，它規(guī)定法國的話劇在形式上應(yīng)該是新古典主義的，
you know, have five acts, sophisticated language, etc.
要有五幕、精致的語言等等。
But try as it might, it couldn’t stop change.
但盡管努力嘗試了，它還是無法阻擋變化。
French drama was changing, though the transition from neoclassical drama to Romantic drama was itself pretty dramatic.
法國的戲劇在變，雖然從新古典主義戲劇過渡到浪漫主義戲劇本身就十分戲劇化。
Let’s look at a play by Victor Hugo called the Hernani, or as the French would say, Hernani,
我們來看看Victor Hugo寫的一出叫做Hernani的戲，
although Hugo was a truly brilliant writer of essays, poems, novels, and plays, uh, his play, Hernani, isn’t a great play in and of itself.
雖然Hugo確實是一位才華橫溢的散文作家、詩人、小說家和劇作家，但是，他的這出戲劇Hernani從頭到尾都不是一部偉大的戲。
It’s got a really confusing, convoluted storyline.
它的故事線非常令人困惑，十分費解。
Critics back then were unimpressed by it,
那會兒的批評家對這部戲評價不高，
though it’s likely that their own feelings about how plays should be, neoclassical or romantic, affected their opinions about it.
雖然很可能他們對戲劇應(yīng)該是什么樣子的感情，比如應(yīng)該是新古典主義的或浪漫主義的，影響了他們對它的看法。
But its premiere in Paris, in 1830, was anything but ordinary.
但是它1830年在巴黎的首映非同尋常。
Hernani’s opening night was probably one of the most important literary events in 19th century France!
Hernani的首演之夜可能是19世紀的法國最重要的文學事件之一。
