戏剧最鲜活的表现是寻常生活
因我们而生发——
其他悲剧
皆死于朗诵——
这是，最上等的演出
只有零星观众
演厅关闭——
“哈姆雷特”是他自己的哈姆雷特——
假如莎士比亚不曾写就——
尽管“罗密欧”没有留下
朱丽叶的记录，
演出永无穷尽
在人们心中——
这唯一有史记载的剧场
主人无法关闭——
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
That arise and set about Us—
Other Tragedy
Perish in the Recitation—
This—the best enact
When the Audience is scattered
And the Boxes shut—
“Hamlet” to Himself were Hamlet—
Had not Shakespeare wrote—
Though the “Romeo” left no Record
Of his Juliet,
It were infinite enacted
In the Human Heart—
Only Theatre recorded
Owner cannot shut—