9. Given the playwright’s obsession with twins – several of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, feature them – it’s interesting to observe that Shakespeare fathered them in real life. His only son, Hamnet (the name was relatively common), died at the age of 11, but his sister Judith lived to be 77.
9.雙胞胎總是在這位劇作家的戲里發(fā)揮攪亂乾坤的作用——他的好幾個(gè)戲,包括《錯(cuò)誤的喜劇》《第十二夜》,都重點(diǎn)描繪了雙胞胎——我們發(fā)現(xiàn)很有趣的是,莎士比亞在現(xiàn)實(shí)生活里也確實(shí)有一對(duì)雙胞胎。他唯一的兒子,哈姆奈特(真是相當(dāng)普通的名字),在11歲時(shí)死了,而他的龍鳳胎姐妹朱迪思則活到77歲。