ああ、ロミオ、ロミオ、あなたはどうしてロミオなの? | 文字の風景──To my grandchildren who will become adults someday

文字の風景──To my grandchildren who will become adults someday

After retirement, I enrolled at Keio University , correspondence course. Since graduation, I have been studying "Shakespeare" and writing in the fields of non-fiction . a member of the Shakespeare Society of Japan. Writer.

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小田島雄志訳の『ロミオとジュリエット』を片手に芝居を観る。
今までにないジュリエットの力強さ、芯の強さを感じた。
 
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?
   wherefore = why や for what を表す古語
 art = are の古語
 thou = you の古語

ああ、ロミオ、ロミオ、あなたはどうしてロミオなの?
 
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose.
By any other name would smell as sweet
 

名前って何? バラと呼んでいるけれど、別の名前で呼んでみても、甘い香りに変わりはないわ。