9. Given the playwright’s obsession with twins – several of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night, feature them – it’s interesting to observe that Shakespeare fathered them in real life. His only son, Hamnet (the name was relatively common), died at the age of 11, but his sister Judith lived to be 77.
9.双胞胎总是在这位剧作家的戏里发挥搅乱乾坤的作用——他的好几个戏,包括《错误的喜剧》《第十二夜》,都重点描绘了双胞胎——我们发现很有趣的是,莎士比亚在现实生活里也确实有一对双胞胎。他唯一的儿子,哈姆奈特(真是相当普通的名字),在11岁时死了,而他的龙凤胎姐妹朱迪思则活到77岁。