英语翻译莎士比亚创造了英国戏剧的“珠峰”之后,英国戏剧又回复到其平庸的状态.更极端的是,其间竟有几段“空白”.英国戏剧史

The British drama,after several climaxes during Shakespare's lifetime,became mediocre again.To make matters worse,there had been certain intervals when drama was totally absent from British life,the periods of which are also referred as 'three thirty years'.The first period extended from 1616 to 1642,at the time of British Civil War.Fearing the democratic and aristocratic elements in dramas,the pilgrims closed the London theater with the parliament's decree and subsequently banned all the theaters nationwide from running again.Such a measure stunted the growth of English drama that had revived since the Renaissance.The legislative laws issued by the Parliament,as well as Henry Fielding's banishment from the theatrical world,led to the 2nd thirty years(1737-1769),during which the growing bourgeois' discontent towards the feudal parts of the nation and the criticism on the playwrights shut many theaters down.With no available stages,dramas faded away with the passage of time.During the last 30 years,also known as the Romantic period(1798-1832),the composition and the staging of the dramas stagnated.As mentioned in previous pages,the "dramas" at the time were actually poems rather than play scripts,so performances were impossible.Although some 'regional drama' emerged during the regency period,this type of drama defiled the glorious name of traditional theatrical plays as it deviated from the moral standards of the society