《皆大欢喜》主要内容简介：莎士比亚是英国文艺复兴时期伟大的剧作家、诗人，被誉为“英国戏剧之父”，著有《哈姆莱特》、《奥瑟罗》、《罗密欧与朱丽叶》、《威尼斯商人》等戏剧共三十七部。本丛书选取莎剧经典英文版本和我国现代著名翻译家朱生豪先生流畅华美的中文译本，精心编排，以英汉对照的形式把莎士比亚最具代表性的传世戏剧经典奉献给广大读者。

This edition of The Merchant of Venice provides: A clear and authoritative text. Detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text. A full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play. Appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts. 《仲夏夜之梦》是莎剧中最常被搬演也是最受欢迎的喜剧，亦为莎翁众多剧本中少数极具原创性的剧本。本出戏充满希望和欢娱气氛，剧中的夏夜森林、精灵魔法等等，都特别适于剧场表现。而这部戏的演出史，几乎可说是精灵的造型史。 故事的主人公因一条荒谬苛律逃往森林，却在森林里因精灵的介入。而使爱情对象混淆。本故事发生在仲夏夜晚，在西方正有所谓仲夏疯(midsummer madness)和月晕(moonstruck)之文化，意喻着黎明之时才能恢复秩序。 此剧的故事发生于城市与森林、清醒与睡眠、真实与梦幻之间，架构极为对称。森林、睡眠或梦幻都象征着潜意识，故近几十年来，尤受不少心理分析大师的青睐。另外，又因内容提及父亲逼婚、仙王操纵爱情等，因此也有人引用女性主义来探讨此剧。

King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters. As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton

1996年，时代文艺出版社出版了由人民文学出版社英文编辑苏福忠等人校订翻译的两卷本《莎士比亚全集》（以朱生豪译31部莎剧为主体，文心等人补译其余6部莎剧，诗由文心、马爱农翻译）。