青年莎士比亚

【Episode 1】
「Better to die righteous than to burn for fear.」

「Who are you? → No one.
No one? → No one... Yet.
Yet? Seems this no one desires to be someone.」

「We cannot rule unless we rule our subjects' minds.」

「God gives us rules, not choices. → Is it such a sin to want to be who I am?」

「Hold a mirror up to nature.」

「You owe me your life, master Shakespeare.」



【Episode 2】
「Cowards die many times before their deaths, the valiant never taste of death but once.」

「Greatness comes at a cost.」

「Onstage, I can be a king. Surely you've seen me act?
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Men pretending to be something they're not. I get that for free.」

「What I am and what I wish to be are not one and the same.」

「It is my belief that true genius cannot be bound. It must exist in the swirling chaos of anarchy.」



【Episode 3】
「Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; <Hamlet>」



【Episode 4】
「Meet me in hell? → And I'll take you to heaven.」

「To find greatness, you must travel alone.」

「Plays that will serve as explorations of what is human. The mind, the soul. Plays that question how we love and why we fight. Plays that show us how much and how little we know.」



【Episode 5】
「Love does not alter when it alteration finds, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom. It is an ever-fixed mark.」



【Episode 6】
「Something wicked this way comes... <Macbeth>」

「The world needs your brilliance, and you need to shine or you'll gutter like a flame without air.
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How can I shine when I have nothing inside me but darkness?」

「I sold my soul for you love, and I would not change it for an eternity of redemption.」

「Expectation is the root of all heartache.」

「You will always be my husband and father to our children. But this is your world, not mine. I leave you free to be what it is you wish to be.」



【Episode 7】
「If your love cost me my soul, then here's to damnation darling. I shall see thee in hell.」

「Is hell real?
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Very.
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Then show me the devil. If I'm already damned, I may as well get something out of the bargain. I want to sell my soul.」

「Your play pokes fun at love. Perhaps the ending eludes you because love eludes you. But your options are to wallow or keep trying.」

「Where? Where is he?! I see nothing! Do you think I'm a fool? You sold me lies! You gave me hope! But there... is nothing.
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Shakepeare saw.
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Tricks! Drugs! Weak minds and lies!
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Faith! He saw because he believes. But you have nothing because you believe in nothing. You are nothing.」

「You English are all faggots!」hahahaha...



【Episode 8】
「Some fight with a sword. You fight with a pen. We must all be the hero we were born to be.」

「Where is the place that men call hell?(Under the heaven.) Aye. But whereabout?(Within the depths...) Within the water!(Within the bowels of these elements, where we are tortured...) And remain...(And remain forever.) Forever?(Hell hath no limits, kit, nor is it circumscribed in one self place. Where we are is hell, and where hell is, then we must ever be.) Then I am damned.」

「Why do you push away everyone who loves you?
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No one loves the damned, Tommy.
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God knows I tried, but I lost thee.
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You cannot lose what you never had.」

「Go to hell. → I tried. Apparently, it is empty, and all the devils are here.」



【Episode 9】
「And thus I clothe my naked villainy, and seem a saint when most I play the devil. <Richard III>」



【Episode 10】
「Better to die on our feet than live on our knees.」

「I will never hurt you, Kit. → Of course you will, Tommy. That's what love is.」

「Master Shakespeare, I am unaccustomed to having friends.
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I beg of you, come to our play.
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Your wish is my command.」

「The devil on stage. Well done, master Shakespeare.
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Thank you... for it all. Did you find something to believe in?
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Belief is just a state of mind.
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That's good.
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I know.」

昨天一口气看了两集，觉得还行。
单看标题，仿佛用的是Sherlock的模版。所以不是我们熟知的文坛泰斗莎士比亚，而是那个刚进城的乡下青年Will。再看内容，比较像前段时间的《亚瑟王：斗兽争霸》，modern得不要不要的古装大片。
其实历史中的莎士比亚本人boring得很。没有什么惊天动地的事迹流传至今。我们知道的就是其父母妻女的姓名，一些枯燥的合同文件里出现的他的名字，最私密的无非是一份他签字的遗嘱，其它乏善可陈。电视剧基本尊重史实，虽然看着这个唇红齿白的、年轻貌美的Will一出场就是三个孩子的爹有点违和出戏，但是没办法，人家又不是乱编的。还好的是莎士比亚和他妻子感情不好也是史学家盖棺论定了的，所以电视剧有大把的制造风流韵事的空间。
莎士比亚大部分的戏剧都由James Burbage还有他的儿子Richard Burbage的剧团上演，也是有资料可证实的。当然Burbage那个美貌的女儿可能就是编剧发挥的想象力了。毕竟历史中的莎士比亚绯闻对象不多，还都是男性。目前只看了两集，要是后面编剧敢加上莎士比亚大部分十四行诗献给的那个对象——神秘的W.H先生，我就给这个剧再加一颗星。


这个电视剧基本把有关莎士比亚的可依据的史实都用上了，比如大学才子派的罗伯特•格林对莎士比亚的嘲弄，第一集两个人的才艺大比拼简直是全集的高潮，改编得非常高明。为了紧张悬疑的气氛，还加入了莎士比亚是秘密的天主教信徒这一茬也不是瞎编的。18世纪莎士比亚故居的屋顶翻新，据称发现了莎士比亚的父亲老约翰留下来的文件可以证实这个家族是秘密的天主教信徒。最近,莎士比亚传记作家Honigmann发现历史上确曾有一个William Shakeshafte的天主教徒，可能是莎士比亚的化名，这个剧里马洛一开始就是用这个名字来调戏Will的。
想想看，一个保守的天主教徒和一个无神论者，还加上都是年轻貌美的天才，这个火花碰撞一下不得了。这就是本剧一定要Will和Kit两个人暧昧的原因吧？！毕竟历史中找不到马洛和莎士比亚的交集。马洛死得太早，1593年就死了，莎士比亚那会儿还无足轻重。这么一想，这个剧大概可能最后一集就是马洛小天使的死期？还是不要吧？！毕竟无论在这个剧里还是历史中，马洛都比莎士比亚要有趣得多。除了剧里马洛说的那句：“天使加百利就是圣灵的老鸨“外，马洛的名言还包括：“福音书作者圣约翰其实是耶稣的床伴！”；“不喜欢男孩子和香烟的家伙都是蠢蛋！”。
作为一个货真价实的搞基达人，这个剧非常好的没有篡改这一点，反正第二集就看到了马洛和漂亮少年们玩亲亲。而且目前看来，编剧还似乎在大胆的暗示：其实莎士比亚是他的真爱？！
既然这么敢编，不如加上本•琼生，再来个三角恋？
最烦某些改编剧，既想要爆点，又没那个胆。
而莎士比亚最大的爆点就是我们对他既熟悉又陌生。熟悉的是他的作品，但是这个人我们所知甚少，他没有留下书信、没有留下任何直接表露他个人思想和感情的作品（虽然十四行诗里有“我”，但这个“我”也不一定就是莎士比亚本人。。。），我们所知的他的思想都来自于哈姆雷特、麦克白或李尔王之口，谁又敢说这些思想是剧中人的？还是莎士比亚自己的呢？