说道历史和文学,英国历史上没有谁能超过Bard,莎翁他老人家了。剧中多处借用莎翁剧本的人物台词,越发凸显出这部喜剧的黑色幽默。
Black Adder
01
(字幕)
King (Richard III): [stands, hunched, speaks awkwardly]
Now is the summer of our sweet content,
Made o'er-cast winter by these Tudor clouds.
And I that am not shaped for black-faced war,
(原文)
http://www.enotes.com/richard-text/act-scene-1
Richard:
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York;
And all the clouds that low'r'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
(字幕)
King: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! Consign their parts most private to a Rutland tree!
(原文)
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/269700.html
KING HENRY V:
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
(字幕)
Harry: It's true, My Lord! I stumbled on his body myself! O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth!
(原文)
http://www.enotes.com/jc-text/act-iii-scene-i?start=2
ANTONY:
O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
(字幕)
Harry: Good night, sweet King...
Richard: Yes, yes, that's enough of that, thank you, Harry...
Harry: ...and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...
Richard: Thank you, Harry...
(原文)
http://shakespeare.mit.edu/hamlet/hamlet.5.2.html
HORATIO
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
Why does the drum come hither?