"The Winter's Tale"一小段

錢鍾書”談藝錄” 頁61：「人藝足補天工，然而人藝即天工也。」（This is an Art/ Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but/The Art itself is  Nature ）

錢先生沒全譯。

朱生豪版本全譯卻冗長：「這是一種改良天然的藝術，或者可說是改變天然，但那種藝術的本身正是出於天然。」（此版本的第四幕第三場，與一般的第四幕第四場不同）。

找的版本標點等都略有不同：

  Perd. For I haue heard it said,

There is an Art, which in their pidenesse shares

With great creating-Nature

   Pol. Say there be:

Yet Nature is made better by no meane,

But Nature makes that Meane: so ouer that Art,

(Which you say addes to Nature) is an Art

That Nature makes: you see (sweet Maid) we marry

A gentler Sien, to the wildest Stocke,

And make conceyue a barke of baser kinde

By bud of Nobler race. This is an Art

Which do's mend Nature: change it rather, but

The Art it selfe, is Nature

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/0ws4010.txt

學者提出許多問題，譬如說為什麼在此羊毛之鄉談起園藝？

The fourth Act of The Winter's Tale is excessively long and tedious, without obvious progression of the plot. In this Act, we can see masque-like features-music, songs, dances and sheep-shearing. In ActIV, scene iv, there is Perdita's quasi-philosophical debate with Polixenes on Art and Nature. Why is the debate being invoked in the middle of a country sheep-shearing festival? This paper argues what this peculiarity means in the flow of Shakespeare's dramaturgy.