Abstract: This paper makes a careful analysis and appreciation of the four Chinese classical versions of a Shakespearean monologue in Hamlet by Bian Zhilin,Zhu Shenghao,Liang Shiqiu and Sun Dayu respectively from many an angle of prosody,social linguistics,rhetoric,stylistics and notes explanation and tries to probe a new way to translation criticism either with a common criteria for comment on the whole or some other points of view for different copies of different translators.

Key words: Shakespeare, versions, comparison