For to study each of these thirty-six plays,distinct and truly independent of each other as they are,on a scale proportionate to its value and importance would he impossible where space is necessarily restricted.

• 因为要在篇幅必然有限的情形下，对这36部实际上相互独立而各具特色的作品，逐一进行规模与其价值和重要性相称的研究，乃是不可能的。