Rome fell. Babylon fell. Hindhead’s turn will come.” George Bernard Shaw’s bon mot in Misalliance was a reminder to British theatre audiences in 1910 that all empires eventually decline and fall. The fact that Hindhead is an English village was a light-hearted cloak for a serious point.
“罗马衰落了;巴比伦衰落了;现在轮到海恩赫德了。”萧伯纳(George Bernard Shaw)在戏剧《错姻缘》(Misalliance)中的这句名言,是在提醒1910年英国戏院的观众,所有帝国最终都会衰落和灭亡。海恩赫德是英国的一个小村子,对于内含的严肃观点,它提供了轻松的伪装。
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