永久的莎士比亞
英國輔弼大衛·卡梅倫
本年是英國戲劇巨匠威廉·莎士比亞逝世400周年。咱們思念他的巨大作品，也向他永存於世的影響力致敬。正如名劇《裘力斯·凱撒》中的台詞，“他像一名偉人，超過了這局促的天下”。
莎翁的作品被翻譯成100多種說話，被全球一半的門生朗讀，其流傳之廣，亙古未有。同時期的劇作家本·瓊森曾說，“莎士比亞超出了時期，他將永久不朽。”本日，他仍舊活在咱們的說話、文化和社會中，對教導的影響彌久常新。
莎翁在構建當代英語，使之成為環球通用語方面施展了癥結感化。塞繆爾·約翰遜編輯的《英語大辭典》中援用莎翁的句子，比其他作家都多。莎翁腳本中發明的英語新詞、新短語多達三千。汗青劇《亨利五世》中很多第一次湧現的詞，如dishearten、divest、addiction、 motionless和leapfrog，和短語，如 once more unto the breach、band of brothers和heart of gold，都相沿至今，成為了耳熟能詳的辭匯。他在語法情勢和構造方面亦有立異，如無韻詩、第一流和組合現有辭匯構成新詞方面(如bloodstained)，而他的一些出色劇作也對拼寫和語法的尺度化施展了感化。
而莎翁的影響遠不止說話。遣辭造句、情節構想、人物塑造等，無不為人類文化和社會帶來靈感。尼爾森·曼德拉在羅本島服刑時曾以《裘力斯·凱撒》中的名句“怯夫一死活屢次，勇者一死活一回”鼓勵本身。凱特·坦皮斯特在詩中寫道：“莎翁是孤單的情人，是傾慕的低語，是沒法安眠的魂魄”，這是對不朽作品的很好解釋。不管是狄更斯、歌德，照樣柴可夫斯基，威爾第和勃拉姆斯，從西城故事到深受《哈姆雷特》啟示的篇名——《捕鼠器》(作者是阿加莎·克裏斯蒂，該劇在倫敦西區常演不衰)，咱們都能找到莎翁的影子。他的作品為數百萬人帶來興趣，不但是黌舍，客歲，眾人通宵列隊，就為了旁觀在倫敦芭比肯藝術中間由本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇主演的《哈姆雷特》。
莎翁財產的精髓還體如今教導上。從皇家莎士比亞劇團和莎士比亞全球劇場一向上演的莎翁作品，到英國前鋒慈善運動，如“莎士比亞學院藝術節”的影響力，咱們發明，研討、演出莎翁作品有助於提大作學觀賞力、自負和受教導程度。
2016年，英國邀您一路懂得莎翁平生，觀賞莎翁名作。1月5日，咱們將在環球推出“永久的莎士比亞”懷念運動，懷念他的不朽魅力，並將其作品作為課本，在環球推行文學觀賞運動。
該運動由英國文化協會和GREAT英國推行運動主理，在環球70多個國度展開。您可以在交際媒體上分享莎翁出色時候，旁觀亙古未有的舞台演出、片子和在線節目，觀光展覽，加入評論辯論並得到新版莎翁課本，進步英語程度。
皇家莎士比亞劇團未來華巡演，莎士比亞全球劇場也將在伊朗、丹麥等各地表演，年青觀眾們乃至可以在津巴布韋觀賞到莎翁名作。屆時交際媒體將上線“Play Your Part”運動，約請復活代創作人材，以數字情勢向莎翁致敬。別的咱們將聯袂英國慈善機構——外洋自願辦事，進步“環球兒童文盲題目嚴格性”的意識，並應用莎翁著作為環球兒童供給教導機遇。
除說話造詣、汗青意義和文化、教導影響力，莎翁也為後人供給了偉大的創作靈感。從戀愛故事到四大慘劇，從奇思妙想到滑稽笑劇，從經典名句到不朽人物，莎翁不但是一名作家，他遼闊的想象力，無窮的創作力和無盡的人文情懷，席卷了整小我類天下，到達了“前無前人，後無來者”的地步。
2016年，咱們等你來介入：懂得莎翁平生，摸索精力財產。正如他所說，“全球是個舞台”。在這裏，作品長青，莎士比亞永久。
【參考譯文】
Shakespeare Lives
British Prime Minister David Cameron
This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time. It is a moment to celebrate the extraordinary ongoing influence of a man who—to borrow from his own description of Julius Caesar —"doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus."
Shakespeare's legacy is without parallel: his works translated into over 100 languages and studied by half the world's schoolchildren. As one of his contemporaries, Ben Jonson, said: "Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all time." He lives today in our language, our culture and society – and through his enduring influence on education.
Shakespeare played a critical role in shaping modern English and helping to make it the world's language. The first major dictionary compiled by Samuel Johnson drew on Shakespeare more than any other writer. Three thousand new words and phrases all first appeared in print in Shakespeare's plays. I remember from my own childhood how many of them are found for the first time in Henry V. Words like dishearten, divest, addiction, motionless, leapfrog—and phrases like "once more unto the breach", "band of brothers" and "heart of gold"—have all passed into our language today with no need to reference their original context. Shakespeare also pioneered innovative use of grammatical form and structure—including verse without rhymes, superlatives and the connecting of existing words to make new words, like bloodstained—while the pre-eminence of his plays also did much to standardise spelling and grammar.
But Shakespeare's influence is felt far beyond our language. His words, his plots and his characters continue to inspire much of our culture and wider society. Nelson Mandela, while a prisoner on Robben Island, cherished a quote from Julius Caesar which said "Cowards die many times before their death, the valiant never taste of death but once." While Kate Tempest's poem “My Shakespeare” captures the eternal presence of Shakespeare when she wrote that Shakespeare "…is in every lover who ever stood alone beneath a window…every jealous whispered word and every ghost that will not rest.” Shakespeare's influence is everywhere, from Dickens and Goethe to Tchaikovsky, Verdi and Brahms; from West Side Story to the Hamlet-inspired title of Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" —the longest-running theatre production in London's West End today. While his original plays continue to entertain millions—from school halls across the world to the overnight queues as hundreds scrambled for last minute tickets to see Benedict Cumberbatch playing Hamlet at London's Barbican last year.
But perhaps one of the most exciting legacies of Shakespeare is his capacity to educate. As we see from the outreach work of the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare's Globe and the impact of pioneering British charities like the Shakespeare Schools Festival, studying and performing Shakespeare can help improve literacy, confidence and wider educational attainment.
Every day throughout 2016, Britain is inviting you to join us in celebrating the life and legacy of William Shakespeare. On 5 January, Twelfth Night, we launched "Shakespeare Lives"—an exciting global programme of activity and events to highlight his enduring influence and extend the use of Shakespeare as an educational resource to advance literacy around the world.
The programme will run in more than seventy countries, led by the British Council and the Great Britain campaign. You can share your favourite moment of Shakespeare on social media, watch never-before-seen performances on stage, film and online, visit exhibitions, take part in workshops and debates, and access new Shakespearean educational resources to get to grips with the English language.
The Royal Shakespeare Company will tour China; Shakespeare's Globe will perform across the world from Iraq to Denmark. Young people will reimagine Shakespeare in Zimbabwe. A social media campaign called "Play your Part" (#PlayYourPart) will invite the next generation of creative talent to produce their own digital tribute to the Bard—and, in partnership with the British charity Voluntary Services Overseas, we will raise awareness of the huge challenge of global child illiteracy and use Shakespeare to increase educational opportunities for children around the world.
Beyond the great gift of language, the bringing to life of our history, his ongoing influence on our culture and his ability to educate, there is just the immense power of Shakespeare to inspire. From the most famous love story to the greatest tragedy; from the most powerful fantasy to the wittiest comedy; and from the most memorable speeches to his many legendary characters, in William Shakespeare we have one man, whose vast imagination, boundless creativity and instinct for humanity encompasses the whole of the human experience as no one has before or since.
So, however you choose to play your part, please join us in 2016 in this unique opportunity to celebrate the life and enduring legacy of this man; ensuring that, as he himself put it, "all the world's a stage" and that through his legacy, truly, Shakespeare Lives.
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