Este ebook presenta "Romeo y Julieta” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Romeo y Julieta es una obra dramática de William Shakespeare, escrita en los años 1594 y 1595 y estrenada en 1595. La obra cuenta la historia de dos jóvenes enamorados que a pesar de la oposición de sus familias, rivales entre si, desiden luchar por su amor hasta el punto de casarse de forma clandestina; sin embargo, la presión de esa realidad y una serie de fatalidades conducen al suicidio de los dos amantes. en esta relación entre sus protagonistas los ha convertida en el arquetipo de los llamados star crossed lovers. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon, Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.

Shakespeare knew like few others how to dramatize the gossipy lives of kings. More importantly, he knew that just because it was history, that didn't mean it was boring. Today, however, Shakespeare's histories can be a bit of a drudge to plow through. Let BookCaps help with this modern translation of the classic history play.

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The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text.

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Este ebook presenta "Sueño de una Noche de Verano” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Sueño de una noche de verano (A Midsummer Night's Dream) es una comedia escrita por William Shakespeare alrededor de 1595. Está considerada como uno de los grandes clásicos de la literatura teatral mundial. Al parecer fue escrita con motivo de la conmemoración de la boda de Sir Thomas Berkeley y Elizabeth Carey, en febrero de 1596. Felix Mendelssohn escribió una obertura y otras piezas musicales inspirado en esta obra que se utilizaron como acompañamiento musical de la obra a lo largo del siglo XIX. Ya en el siglo XX, en 1960, Benjamin Britten compuso una ópera sobre el mismo tema con libreto del propio Britten y del tenor Peter Pears. La obra teatral ha sido adaptada en numerosas ocasiones al cine y su influencia ha sido notable en la cultura anglosajona. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon (o simplemente El Bardo), Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal.

Es la última obra de Shakespeare y, para muchos, la culminación de todo su proceso creador. Pieza alegórica, utópica, realista, romántica, pastoril y mítica, se nos presenta como un cuento maravilloso que encierra algún enigma o significado huidizo.

Su composición parece inspirada en un célebre naufragio ocurrido en 1609 cerca de las Bermudas. El pasaje, que se creía muerto, se salvó y vivió durante un tiempo en una isla paradisíaca. En pleno debate sobre el descubrimiento y la colonización del Nuevo Mundo, Shakespeare aborda en su obra los problemas de la relación con otras culturas y las perspectivas de convivencia o sometimiento; el encuentro del civilizado con el salvaje; lo primario e instintivo frente a lo racional; la posibilidad de crear una comunidad con un nuevo orden social basado en otros valores, y los obstáculos para llevarlo a cavo.
Pero La tempestad es, también, una reflexión extrema sobre los límites entre ficción y realidad.

Inagotable en posibilidades escénicas, en ella dejó Shakespeare su última palabra sobre la magia del teatro. Traducción de Ängel-Luis Pujante, que recibió por esta obra el premio Nacional a la Mejor Traducción en 1998.

The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - Extensive introduction gives full attention to the play's bold treatment of racial themes, gender, and social relations - Detailed performance history designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals - On-page commentary and notes explain language, word-play, and staging - Appendices on music in the play and a full translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives - Illustrated with production photographs and related art - Full index to introduction and commentary - Durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Othello, a tragedy, written about 1603, is about perceived adultery and murder.  Othello is a Moor from northern Africa.  The play is set in Venice where he is a general in the Venetian army.  Shakespeare based the play on an Italian short story published in 1565. 

The play begins with Iago (Othello’s ensign - a low ranking officer) and Roderigo (a Venetian gentleman) going to visit Brabantio (a Venetian senator).  Desdemona, his daughter, has eloped with Othello.  Roderigo is in love with Desdemona.  Iago is fuming about losing a promotion that Othello granted to Cassio.

This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay. 

A Midsummer’s Night Dream was written and first performed in the mid 1590’s.  Shakespeare used the device of magic extensively in this early comedy. There are four separate but intertwined plots.

The main plot is the marriage of Duke Theseus of Athens to Hippolyta, the Amazonian queen. Theseus is looking forward to his wedding and has ordered his master of the revels to prepare a wonderful wedding feast. While Theseus waits, he is approached by Egeus, father of Hermia.  Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius, who loves Hermia. Hermia, however, wants to marry Lysander.   Under Athenian law, a woman must marry according to her father’s wishes.

This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay. 

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A obra mais conhecida de Shakespeare. A dramática estória de dois apaixonados jovens, onde a rivalidade entre suas famílias acabam por levá-los a um fatídico fim.

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Este ebook presenta "Las Tragedias de William Shakespeare” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Se incluyen en este volumen todas aquellas obras de William Shakespeare catalogadas como tragedias. Nos encontraremos con las historias más conocidas del autor como “Romeo y Julieta”, “Hamlet” u “Otelo” e incluso viajaremos a la época grecolatina. La mayoría de los escritos se basan en historias de venganza y crímenes. Tabla de contenidos: - Julio César - Otelo - Macbeth - Romeo y Julieta - Hamlet - El rey Lear William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon, Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.

While staying at his friend Leonato's home, Claudio falls in love with Hero, Leonato's beautiful daughter, and they agree to marry. In the meantime, they decide to trick their friends Benedick and Beatricewho have nothing but insults for each otherinto falling in love as well. However, Don John, the illegitimate brother of Leonato's close friend Don Pedro, won't stand for such happiness. He tricks Claudio into thinking Hero has been unfaithful. Claudio's hasty overreaction and Leonato's redemption of Hero wield all the tools of a romantic comedy, making a story that is, indeed, much ado about nothing. This unabridged version of William Shakespeare's delightful play was first published in England in 1600.

Romeo y Julieta es una de las obras más populares de Shakespeare; la desgraciada historia de los amantes de Verona ha trascendido la literatura para situarse en el terreno de lo legendario.

En medio de la lucha entre familias rivales, dos personajes juveniles viven un amor tan apasionado como imposible. La reconciliación llegará tarde, cuando ya se ha consumado la tragedia. La traición, la lealtad, el odio, los celos, la pasión, son algunos de los temas que William Shakespeare llevó a las tablas. Escrita en cinco actos, Romeo y Julieta expresa de modo insuperable el mito del amor romántico. Disfrútala en la cuidada edición que te ofrece Paradimage.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version.

Henry IV, Part 1 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written no later than 1597. It is the second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the successive reigns of Richard II, Henry IV (two plays, including Henry IV, Part 2), and Henry V. Henry IV, Part 1 depicts a span of history that begins with Hotspur's battle at Homildon in Northumberland against the Douglas late in 1402, and ends with the defeat of the rebels at Shrewsbury in the middle of 1403. From the start it has been an extremely popular play both with the public and critics.
 

George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume.

These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen).

Features of each edition include:

The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition Editor’s Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play’s performance history on stage and screen. Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge’s superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare’s sometimes demanding language. Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices. How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page." Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare’s life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays. Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions’ Introduction. Select Bibliography & Filmography

Each New Kittredge edition also includes screen grabs from major productions, for comparison and scene study.

Lucentio comes to Padua to attend the university, but his attention is quickly captured by the lovely Bianca. He would do anything to marry her, including disguise himself as her Latin teacher. But a major obstacle stands in the way of Lucentio's intentions: Bianca's father will only allow Bianca to marry after her sister, Katherine, is married. Katherine is everything Bianca is not. She is ill-tempered, opinionated, and objects to the idea of marriage. When bold Petruchio arrives in Padua, however, he might just be the kind of suitor who could succeed in marrying Katherine. This is an unabridged version of English playwright William Shakespeare's romantic comedy, which was first published in 1623.

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s for a performance at the Inns of Court before Queen Elizabeth I. It follows the King of Navarre and his three companions as they attempt to forswear the company of women for three years of study and fasting, and their subsequent infatuation with the Princess of Aquitaine and her ladies. In an untraditional ending for a comedy, the play closes with the death of the Princess's father, and all weddings are delayed for a year. The play draws on themes of masculine love and desire, reckoning and rationalization, and reality versus fantasy.
Though first published in quarto in 1598, the play's title page suggests a revision of an earlier version of the play. While there are no obvious sources for the play's plot, the four main characters are loosely based on historical figures. The use of apostrophes in the play's title varies in early editions, though it is most commonly given as Love's Labour's Lost.
The historical personages portrayed and the political situation in Europe relating to the setting and action of the play were familiar to Shakespeare's audiences. Scholars suggest that the play lost popularity as these historical and political portrayals of Navarre's court became dated and less accessible to theatergoers of later generations. The play's sophisticated wordplay, pedantic humour and dated literary allusions may also be reasons for its relative obscurity, as compared with Shakespeare's more popular works. Love's Labour's Lost was staged rarely in the 19th century, but it has been seen more often in the 20th and 21st centuries, with productions by both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, among others. It has also been adapted as a musical, an opera, for radio and television and as a musical film.

 《仲夏夜之夢》（英國：A Midsummer Night's Dream），是威廉·莎士比亞在約1590年-1596年間創作的浪漫喜劇。它描繪了以雅典大公忒修斯和希波呂忒婚禮為中心的一系列故事。包括四名雅典戀人和六個業餘演員的冒險經歷，而森林裡的仙子們則在背後操作它們的命運。本戲劇是莎士比亞最流行的劇本之一，在全世界都有上演。劇情共有三個主軸，剛好都跟慶祝忒修斯公爵和希波呂忒女王的婚禮有關。一開始，赫米婭的父親強迫要赫米婭嫁給狄米特律斯，當時的希臘規定家庭可以決定女兒的婚姻，而女兒必須遵守，否則就要被處死或放逐。赫米婭不肯，與拉山德相約晚上在森林見面並私奔。赫米婭將她的計劃告訴她最好的朋友海麗娜；海麗娜不久前才被狄米特律斯拒絕，為了討回狄米特律斯的歡心，因此海麗娜將這計劃告訴狄米特律斯。到了晚上，狄米特律斯跟蹤海麗娜，而海麗娜跟蹤赫米婭，而赫米婭則急於尋找拉山德，四人在森林中迷路並分離，他們累了並在樹下打盹休息。

同時，仙王奧布朗與仙后提泰妮亞到達了同一片森林，並計劃參加忒修斯公爵和希波呂忒女王的婚禮。提泰妮亞拒絕把她的印度童僕精靈借給奧布朗當作他的僕人，所以奧布朗決定懲戒提泰妮亞。奧布朗要小精靈帕克去摘三色堇，並趁提泰妮亞睡覺時將三色堇花汁液滴在她的眼皮上，這樣當提泰妮亞醒來時便會永遠愛上她看到的第一個人。另外帕克也發現了睡覺中的拉山德等人，祂將三色堇花汁液滴在他們的眼皮上，並希望他們醒來時能有情人終成眷屬。

在同時，織工波頓和他的勞工朋友們在同一片森林中排演悲劇《皮拉摩斯和西斯貝》，他們計劃在忒修斯公爵和希波呂忒女王的婚禮上表演，並把它演成滑稽的喜劇。可憐的織工波頓在換裝時，被小精靈帕克惡作劇變成驢頭。不巧仙后提泰妮亞醒來見到的第一個人便是他，於是仙后瘋狂的愛上了驢頭人身的波頓。森林的另一邊，拉山德和狄米特律斯醒來時見到的第一個人都是海麗娜，於是海麗娜變成兩人追求的對象，赫米婭則同時被兩人拋棄。拉山德和狄米特律斯為了海麗娜而決鬥，兩人在森林中迷路並在樹下打盹休息。

《奧布朗與提泰妮婭的爭吵》，約瑟夫·諾埃爾·佩頓繪

仙王奧布朗見苗頭不對，於是要求小精靈帕克自己去解決自己闖下的禍。於是帕克再趁提泰妮亞和拉山德睡覺時，將三色堇花汁液滴在他們的眼皮上。這次提泰妮亞見到的第一人是奧布朗、拉山德見到的第一人是赫米婭，織工波頓的驢頭法術也被解除；狄米特律斯的法術則沒有被解除，他將會與海麗娜永遠相愛。仙王則與仙后重修舊好。當早晨來臨時，情侶們和勞工們決定這一夜發生的所有不合理事情一定是一場夢。

情侶們回到雅典，赫米婭的父親不再堅持他的決定，因為他看到狄米特律斯改變了他的心意。情侶們快樂的參加忒修斯公爵和希波呂忒女王的婚禮，三對新人同時結婚，並觀賞織工波頓和他的朋友們所表演的不是悲劇的喜劇。

（維基百科）

Macbeth (full title The Tragedy of Macbeth) is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, and is considered one of his darkest and most powerful works. Set in Scotland, the play illustrates the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake.

The play is believed to have been written between 1599 and 1606, and is most commonly dated 1606. The earliest account of a performance of what was probably Shakespeare's play is the Summer of 1606, when Simon Forman recorded seeing such a play at the Globe Theatre. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book. It was most likely written during the reign of James I, who had been James VI of Scotland before he succeeded to the English throne in 1603. James was a patron of Shakespeare's acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James's reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright's relationship with the sovereign.

Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy, and tells the story of a brave Scottish general named Macbeth who receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia, and he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler as he is forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of arrogance, madness, and death.

Shakespeare's source for the tragedy is the account of Macbeth, King of Scotland, Macduff, and Duncan in Holinshed's Chronicles (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. In recent scholarship, the events of the tragedy are usually associated more closely with the execution of Henry Garnett for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as "the Scottish play". Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. It has been adapted to film, television, opera, novels, comic books, and other media.

Timon of Athens (The Life of Tymon of Athens) is a play by William Shakespeare, published in the First Folio (1623) and probably written in collaboration with another author, most likely Thomas Middleton, in about 1605–1606. It is about the fortunes of an Athenian named Timon (and probably influenced by the philosopher of the same name). The central character is a well beloved citizen of Athens who through tremendous generosity spends his entire fortunes on corrupt hangers-on only interested in getting the next payout.
The earliest known production of the play was in 1674, when Thomas Shadwell wrote an adaptation under the title The History of Timon of Athens, The Man-hater. Multiple other adaptations followed over the next century, by writers such as Thomas Hull, James Love and Richard Cumberland. The straight Shakespearean text was at Smock Alley in Dublin in 1761, but adaptations continued to dominate the stage until well into the 20th century.
Timon of Athens was originally grouped with the tragedies, but some scholars name it one of the problem plays.

‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom’

Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare’s sonnets are the best ever written.

But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love.

Some of them are written to a young man, some of them to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery – why did Shakespeare write them, what was his sexuality? – each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive.

Includes exclusive content: In the 'Backstory' you can find a short, handy, funny guide to everything you might want to know about Shakespeare and his sonnets.

‘This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love’ Don Paterson, Guardian

Este ebook presenta "Otelo” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Otelo: el moro de Venecia es una obra teatral de Shakespeare escrita alrededor de 1603. Otelo es un príncipe negro, orgulloso de su éxito como general al servicio de Venecia, cuya sociedad lo aprecia gracias a sus méritos militares, y que ha conquistado la mano y el amor de Desdémona, hija de un notable. Yago, un alférez, envidioso y maquiavélico, convierte a Otelo en blanco de su resentimiento. Sus calumnias, dirigidas contra el punto vulnerable del moro -su matrimonio interracial- resultan eficaces. Persuadido de la infidelidad de Desdémona, corroído por los celos, despojado de toda confianza en sí mismo, Otelo cae en la trampa de su propia caída, convirtiendo la obra en la doméstica de todas las tragedias de Shakespeare: el sangriento final de un matrimonio. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon (o simplemente El Bardo), Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.

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É a tragédia mais curta de Shakespeare, mas também a mais sombria. Retrata a história do general Macbeth, que influenciado por sua esposa Lady Macbeth e a profecia das bruxas, obtêm o trono da Escócia cometendo terríveis assassinatos.

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Even the most resolutely disengaged students can finally ‘discover’ and thrill to the rhythms and passions of Shakespeare’s plays! Award-winning teachers and Shakespearean scholars have extensively trialled their approach to teaching Shakespeare’s plays in the classroom, and this series is the result! The plays in this series are becoming increasingly popular for student resources in schools as English and Drama teachers discover their fabulous teaching and learning qualities.

Este ebook presenta "Macbeth” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Macbeth, una de las obras de William Shakespeare, es una tragedia en cinco actos, escrita en prosa y en verso. Fue compuesta probablemente hacia 1606 y publicada por primera vez en 1623, en la edición conocida como First Folio. Macbeth rey de Escocia desde 1040, estaba casado con su prima Gruoch, dama de cámara de Escocia y nieta de Kenneth II. En tal condición, podía reivindicar el trono de Escocia a la muerte de Malcolm II, pero este último modificó las reglas de sucesión al trono en beneficio de su propio nieto Duncan I. En una tragedia en que no cabe duda sobre dónde se sitúa el bien y dónde el mal, el extraordinario genio de Shakespeare logra que lady Macbeth sea algo más que un personaje perverso. En el culpable siempre se trasluce el ser humano que sufre también con el mal, y así se transmite al espectador la inquietud que provoca la relación entre fatalidad, voluntad personal y culpabilidad. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon (o simplemente El Bardo), Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.

Hamlet, la más famosa tragedia de Shakespeare, así como Romeo y Julieta, su exaltación genial del amor, no nos vinculan a seres de carne y hueso solamente, sino con personajes ejemplares por el vigor de su clase y por la significación colosal de su admirable contextura.

A palavra ideal, que tanto tem servido para críticos dissertarem, não
tem realmente nenhuma significação quando se trata de Shakespeare; mas a
palavra absoluto possui significação em grau máximo. Poderá dizer-se
que o amor de Romeu e Julieta é ideal? Não há um único dos elementos
deste amor que não se encontre na mais concreta realidade e não obstante
a reunião de todos estes elementos forma a própria perfeição do amor.
Esta concordância completa de todos os elementos duma mesma paixão é
rara sem dúvida; mas compreendemos que ela não é impossível e desde
então onde está o ideal? Em compensação, se se lhe não pode chamar
ideal, há-de chamar-se a essa paixão absoluta, porque não lhe falta
nenhum dos elementos que são precisos para constituir o amor na sua
integralidade. O amor de Romeu e de Julieta é mais do que ideal, ou
antes, não tem necessidade nenhuma de epíteto qualificaste: é amor.

Uno de los más hermosos dramas del inglés, que muestra el trágico amor de dos adolescentes en la Verona medieval. Neruda declaró: «Lo he traducido con devoción para que las palabras de Shakespeare puedan comunicar a todos, en nuestro idioma, el fuego transparente que arde en ellas sin consumirse desde hace siglos».

George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen).Features of each edition include: The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition Editor’s Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play’s performance history on stage and screen. Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge’s superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare’s sometimes demanding language. Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices. How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page." Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare’s life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays. Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions’ Introduction. Select Bibliography & Filmography Film stills from major productions, for comparison and scene study.

Finally, the world’s greatest writer receives the scholarly Delphi treatment. This incredible eBook offers every Shakespearean play, poem, apocryphal work and much, much more! Now you can truly own all of Shakespeare’s works and a wealth of BONUS material on your eReader, and all in ONE well-organised file. (Version 6)

* concise introductions to the plays and other works
* images of how the plays first appeared in print, giving your eReader a taste of the Elizabethan texts
* ALL 38 plays and each with their own contents table – navigate easily between acts and scenes – find that special quotation quickly!
* even includes 17 apocryphal plays available nowhere else
* contains a special LOST PLAYS section, with concise information on Shakespeare’s lost works
* includes the special bonus play of DOUBLE FALSEHOOD
* ALL the sonnets and other poetry, with excellent formatting, in their own special contents table – find that special sonnet quickly and easily!
* packed full of hundreds of beautiful images relating to Shakespeare’s life, locations and works
* EVEN includes a special SOURCES section – spend hours discovering rare medieval texts that shaped Shakespeare’s greatest works.
* INCLUDES no less than 5 biographies – explore the bard’s mysterious life from multiple sources across history
* the SPECIAL literary criticism section boasts 11 works by writers as varied as Samuel Johnson, Coleridge, Pope, Bernard Shaw and Tolstoy
* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* includes a special ‘Glossary of Elizabethan Language’, which will aid your comprehension of difficult words and phrases
* UPDATED with line numbers to all 38 plays, in response to customers’ requests
* UPDATED with a special Quotations section, with hundreds of famous quotations from the plays and poetry

This eBook is quite simply stunning and deserves a place in the digital library of all lovers of literature.

CONTENTS

The Plays
ALL 38 PLAYS

The Lost Plays
LOVE’S LABOUR’S WON
CARDENIO
DOUBLE FALSEHOOD

The Sources
LIST OF THE PLAYS’ SOURCES

The Apocryphal Plays
ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM
THE BIRTH OF MERLIN
KING EDWARD III
LOCRINE
THE LONDON PRODIGAL
THE PURITAN
THE SECOND MAIDEN’S TRAGEDY
SIR JOHN OLDCASTLE
THOMAS LORD CROMWELL
A YORKSHIRE TRAGEDY
SIR THOMAS MORE
FAIR EM
MUCEDORUS
THE MERRY DEVIL OF EDMONTON
EDMUND IRONSIDE
THOMAS OF WOODSTOCK
VORTIGERN AND ROWENA

The Adaptations
TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE BY CHARLES AND MARY LAMB

The Poetry
THE SONNETS
VENUS AND ADONIS
THE RAPE OF LUCRECE
THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM
THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE
A LOVER’S COMPLAINT

The Apocryphal Poetry
TO THE QUEEN
A FUNERAL ELEGY FOR MASTER WILLIAM PETER
SONNETS TO SUNDRY NOTES OF MUSIC

The Criticism
PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE AND NOTES ON PLAY BY SAMUEL JOHNSON
NOTES TO COMEDIES BY SAMUEL JOHNSON
A STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE BY ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
and many more!

The Biographies
SHAKESPEARE: HIS LIFE, ART, AND CHARACTERS BY HENRY NORMAN HUDSON
and many more!

Shakespeare’s Last Will and Testament

Resources:
Quotations
Glossary of Elizabethan Language

CAMILLO
I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him.

ARCHIDAMUS
Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves; for indeed,—

CAMILLO
Beseech you,—

ARCHIDAMUS
Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence—in so rare—I know not what to say.—We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us.

CAMILLO
You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely.

ARCHIDAMUS
Believe me, I speak as my understanding instructs me and as mine honesty puts it to utterance.

Une édition de référence d’Hamlet de William Shakespeare, traduit par François-Victor Hugo, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Hamlet. Être, ou ne pas être, c'est là la question. Y a-t-il plus de noblesse d'âme à subir la fronde et les flèches de la fortune outrageante, ou bien à s'armer contre une mer de douleurs et à l'arrêter par une révolte ? Mourir... dormir, rien de plus... et dire que par ce sommeil nous mettons fin aux maux du cœur et aux mille tortures naturelles qui sont le legs de la chair : c'est là un dénouement qu'on doit souhaiter avec ferveur. Mourir... dormir, dormir ! peut-être rêver ! Oui, là est l'embarras. Car quels rêves peut-il nous venir dans ce sommeil de la mort, quand nous sommes débarrassés de l'étreinte de cette vie ? » (Extrait de l’acte III, scène 1.)

The story of Hamlet ultimately derives from the legend of Amleth, preserved by 13th-century chronicler Saxo Grammaticus in his Gesta Danorum, as subsequently retold by 16th-century scholar François de Belleforest. Shakespeare may also have drawn on an earlier (hypothetical) Elizabethan play known today as the Ur-Hamlet, though some scholars believe he himself wrote the Ur-Hamlet, later revising it to create the version of Hamlet we now have. He almost certainly created the title role for Richard Burbage, the leading tragedian of Shakespeare's time. In the 400 years since, the role has been performed by highly acclaimed actors from each successive age.
Three different early versions of the play are extant, the First Quarto (Q1, 1603), the Second Quarto (Q2, 1604), and the First Folio (F1, 1623). Each version includes lines, and even entire scenes, missing from the others. The play's structure and depth of characterisation have inspired much critical scrutiny. One such example is the centuries-old debate about Hamlet's hesitation to kill his uncle, which some see as merely a plot device to prolong the action, but which others argue is a dramatisation of the complex philosophical and ethical issues that surround cold-blooded murder, calculated revenge, and thwarted desire. More recently, psychoanalytic critics have examined Hamlet's unconscious desires, and feminist critics have re-evaluated and rehabilitated the often maligned characters of Ophelia and Gertrude.

HAMLET, la obra más conocida de Shakespeare, es en realidad una pieza llena de lagunas e indefiniciones. Una obra enigmática y misteriosa, en la que cada personaje es un artista de la simulación. El propio Hamlet es un ser en continua transformación. En él caben la ceremoniosidad, la cortesía y la reflexión, junto a la pasión, la burla, el enigma o la posibilidad de la locura. En el castillo de Elsenor, en un ambiente que emana corrupción y desconfianza, claustrofóbico y hostil, se alternan escenas solemnes y reveses irónicos, al tiempo que se agita una corte de personajes cuyo sentido último será llevar a Hamlet a vencer su tensión interna y cumplir la venganza por la muerte de su padre. El magnífico estudio de Ángel-Luis Pujante que precede su traducción analiza el carácter incoherente e incierto de la tragedia y sitúa el atractivo de una obra tan compleja y rica en ese halo de misterio que suscita la duda, requiere la meditación y que la ha convertido en uno de los grandes mitos de Occidente.

Este ebook presenta "El rey Lear” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El rey Lear (King Lear) es una tragedia de William Shakespeare, escrita en 1605. El anciano Rey Lear decide repartir su reino entre sus hijas. Confundido por la falsa adulación de las dos mayores, Gonerila y Regania, a pesar del auténtico amor filial y la sinceridad de la pequeña Cordelia, con deslealtad, deshereda a ésta y reparte sus tierras entre aquellas. Cordelia parte para casarse con el Rey de Francia. Mientras tanto el Conde de Kent, que ha intentado hacer entrar en razón al Rey, es desterrado. Al poco tiempo Lear comprende que sus hijas sólo ambicionaban su reino y se ve abandonado por ambas. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) fue un dramaturgo, poeta y actor inglés. Conocido en ocasiones como el Bardo de Avon, Shakespeare es considerado el escritor más importante en lengua inglesa y uno de los más célebres de la literatura universal. Sus obras de teatro son consideradas auténticos clásicos atemporales y su influencia a lo largo de la historia de la literatura es indiscutible.

Fújj, szél, szakadj meg, fújj, dühöngj! Vihar, Felhő, omoljatok le, míg a tornyot S a szélvitorlát elsüllyesztitek! Ti gondolatnál gyorsabb kéntüzek… Shakespeare az angol nyelvű drámaírás egyik legnagyobb alakja. A világirodalmi örökségét és hatását a világ minden táján megtalálhatjuk. Angliában mint a nemzet dalnokát tisztelik. A történet a kelta kori Britanniába vezet, de Shakespeare valójában a piros rózsa-fehér rózsa-harc (1455-1485) trónviszályainak korszakát, a feudális anarchiát jeleníti meg.

Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s comedies, was almost certainly written around 1599, as it was registered in 1600.   It appeared in Shakespeare’s First Folio in 1623.  

The setting of the play is in Messina, Sicily.  The action takes place in and around the house of the governor, Leonato.  Leonato is visited by several young men – Prince Don Pedro of Aragon and his friend Claudio, Benedick of Pedua, and Don John, Don Pedro’s illegitimate brother.  

This annotated edition includes a biography and critical essay. 

Macbeth cuenta una historia de crimen y castigo entreverada de brujería y elementos sobrenaturales. Amparado en las engañosas profecías de las Hermanas Fatídicas, brujas o diosas del destino, Macbeth decide asesinar a su rey y tomar la corona. Consciente del horror al que se entrega, forja su terrible destino y se deja poseer por el mal que nace del ansia de poder, creyéndose invencible y eterno. Esta obra tenebrosa e inquietante, de acción vertiginosa, es también profundamente introspectiva. A través de un lenguaje metafórico y sensorial, la obra indaga en lo prohibido, explora la transgresión y ofrece la oportunidad única de compartir la vida interior de un asesino, con su horror y su misterio. En el estudio introductorio, Ángel-Luis Pujante desvela el significado de ese juego de símbolos, el primitivismo y el concepto mágico del mundo que representan, y aclara cómo la altura poética e intelectual de Macbeth no oculta ni suaviza la situación política concreta de sangre y violencia, ambición y deslealtad en que la acción se desenvuelve.

Dans la belle Vérone, où nous plaçons notre scène, l'antique haine de deux maisons égales en dignité vient d'éclater par de nouveaux troubles, où le sang des citoyens a souillé les mains des citoyens. De la race funeste de ces deux ennemis a pris naissance, sous des étoiles funestes, un couple d'amants infortunés dont les malheurs et la ruine déplorable enseveliront avec eux les luttes de leurs parents. L'épisode terrible de cet amour marqué de mort, l'obstination de leurs parents dans des fureurs dont la mort de leurs enfants peut seule terminer le cours, vont pendant ces deux heures occuper notre scène. Si vous nous prêtez la faveur d'une oreille attentive, nous travaillerons par nos efforts à perfectionner ce qui pourrait manquer ici.

Murder? Witchcraft? Ghost? It's all in Macbeth. But if you are like many people, you just don't get it! If you don't understand Shakespeare, then you are not alone.
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O Duque Teseu, se prepara para casar com a rebelde Hipólita. Antes do casamento, Teseu é chamado para resolver uma disputa amorosa envolvendo a romântica Hermia e seu pai Egeu. Hermia ama Lisandro, mas Egeu deplora a ideia e quer forçá-la a se casar com Demetrio. Como Teseu sela o destino infeliz da garota, Hermia e Lisandro decidem fugir para a floresta. Enquanto isso, Demetrius é amado por Helena.

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Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions are realized. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war and witchcraft, Macbeth also explores the relationship between husband and wife, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition is illustrated throughout by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897), and features and introduction by Dr Robert Mighall.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Inspired by the bestselling Delphi Poets Series, this eBook features The World's Greatest Poems, with verses and extracts from poetical plays and seminal epic poems that have shaped the course of poetry over the centuries. From the earliest beginnings of Western literature in Homer's epics, to the Renaissance masterpieces of Spenser, Sidney and Shakespeare; from the evocative beauty of the Romantic poets to the brilliance of Yeats, the War Poets and other modern masters, this collection provides hundreds of the world's most beloved poets and thousands of treasured verses. (Version 2)

* Excellent formatting of the poems
* Wide breadth of poets from across time and cultures
* Special alphabetical contents tables for the poems and poets
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order

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The World’s Greatest Poems
CONTENTS OF THE COLLECTION
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
LIST OF POETS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

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A tempest shipwrecks Alonso, the king of Naples; Antonio, the duke of Milan; and several others on a small island in the Mediterranean. Little do they know that the storm was conjured by Prospero, the former duke of Milan, who lives in exile on the island with his daughter Miranda, his slave Caliban, and his spirit servant Ariel. As Prospero manipulates the events that take place on the island using his books and magic, William Shakespeare invites the reader to examine the playwright's powers in the theatrical world. The fantastical, romantic playÑbelieved to be the last one Shakespeare wrote aloneÑwas published in 1623, after his death. This unabridged version is taken from an edition published in 1863.