Question

请教翻译高手一个英语长句的翻译，谢谢！

The Drama again—as, for instance, the finest of Shakespeare’s plays in England, and all leading Athenian plays in the noontide of the Attic stage—operated as a literature on the public mind, and were (according to the strictest letter of that term) published through the audiences that witnessed their representation some time before they were published as things to be read; and they were published in this scenical mode of publication with much more effect than they could have had as books during ages of costly copying or of costly printing.
请不要用翻译软件行吗，翻译出来的都是些什么啊？

Answer 1

重提戏剧，例如英国著名的莎士比亚的剧作，以及其他主要的希腊经典戏剧都扮演了一个大众精神食粮的作用。并且这些剧作（根据一些传统信件的记载）是先在大众中公演一段时间以后再发行文本形式的剧本以供读者阅读。而对在复印和那个打印都很昂贵时代，因戏剧直接先公演而产生的直接效果远远大于文本形式的剧本所能带来的效果。

Answer 2

<剧再度-例如,优秀的莎翁名剧在英国,每一个领导雅典扮演的noontide的阁楼阶段操作作为文学在公众心目中,他们(按严格的信说语)出版通过观众目睹其任职一段时间,然后才出版的东西要经过; 他们出版的刊物,这scenical模式更可能产生的影响比年龄在书本费用昂贵的印刷或者复制.