Rome fell. Babylon fell. Hindhead’s turn will come.” George Bernard Shaw’s bon mot in Misalliance was a reminder to British theatre audiences in 1910 that all empires eventually decline and fall. The fact that Hindhead is an English village was a light-hearted cloak for a serious point.
“羅馬衰落了;巴比倫衰落了;現在輪到海恩赫德了。”蕭伯納(George Bernard Shaw)在戲劇《錯姻緣》(Misalliance)中的這句名言,是在提醒1910年英國戲院的觀眾,所有帝國最終都會衰落和滅亡。海恩赫德是英國的一個小村子,對于內含的嚴肅觀點,它提供了輕松的偽裝。
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