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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.
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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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.
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 & FilmographyEach New Kittredge edition also includes screen grabs from major productions, for comparison and scene study.
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.
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。
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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.
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.
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
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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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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.
* 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
« 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.)
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.
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.
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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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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.
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