术语“前传”的详细信息

英译术语:

prequel

汉语语境:

莎士比亚的戏剧《哈姆莱特》几乎是一经发表便被奉为经典，然而，不同甚至是相互冲突的阐释也从未停止出现。厄普代克的小说《葛特露和克劳狄斯》以女性的视角，讲述了一个"《哈姆莱特》的前传"，对父权制社会里女性的地位和命运表现出极大的关注，也为《哈姆莱特》提出了一个属于现代人的全新的阐释。

英语语境:

Almost immediately after its publication, Shakespeare's Hamlet became a literary classic.However, different and even conflicting interpretations have never stopped cropping up.Adopting a feminist stand, John Updike's novel Gertrude and Claudius tells a tale which some critics regard as a prequel to Hamlet, showing a serious concern for the position and fate of women in a patriarchal society and providing a whole new interpretation that is uniquely of the modern people.