Sonnets

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Much Ado About Nothing (The Unabridged Play) + The   Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Written around the middle of his career (1598 and 1599), Much Ado About   Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from   the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young Claudio falls   for Hero, the daughter of Leonato, governor of Messina, and his friend Don   Pedro helps him secure her affection. These youthful lovers are contrasted   with the more experienced Benedick and Beatrice, who have to be tricked into   falling in love. Don Pedro's bastard brother, Don John, provides the   intrigue, and the dimwitted constable Dogberry provides the laughs.
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the   eminent critic Sidney Lee.  This book   was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published   in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National   Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564  - 1616)   was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in   the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often   called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".  His extant works, including some   collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative   poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is   uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a   lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in   the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the   basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often   credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

Much Ado About Nothing (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and die because of that love. The story is rather extraordinary in that the normal problems faced by young lovers are here so very large. It is not simply that the families of Romeo and Juliet disapprove of the lover's affection for each other; rather, the Montagues and the Capulets are on opposite sides in a blood feud and are trying to kill each other on the streets of Verona. Every time a member of one of the two families dies in the fight, his relatives demand the blood of his killer. Because of the feud, if Romeo is discovered with Juliet by her family, he will be killed. Once Romeo is banished, the only way that Juliet can avoid being married to someone else is to take a potion that apparently kills her, so that she is burried with the bodies of her slain relatives. In this violent, death-filled world, the movement of the story from love at first sight to the union of the lovers in death seems almost inevitable.What is so striking about this play is that despite its extraordinary setting (one perhaps reflecting Elizabethan attitudes about hot-blooded Italians), it has become the quintessential story of young love. Because most young lovers feel that they have to overcome giant obstacles in order to be together, because they feel that they would rather die than be kept apart, and especially because the language Shakespeare gives his young lovers is so exquisite, allowing them to say to each other just what we would all say to a lover if we only knew how, it is easy to respond to this play as if it were about all young lovers rather than about a particular couple in a very unusual world. (When the play was rewritten in the eighteen century as The History and Fall of Caius Marius, the violent setting became that of a particularly discordant period in classical Rome; when Leonard Berstein rewrote the play as West Side Story, he chose the violent world of New York street gangs.)

Romeo et Juliette

The taming of the shrew: the oxford shakespeare

Le marchand de venise

Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;

I am not partial to infringe our laws:

The enmity and discord which of late

Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke

To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,

Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives

Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,

Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.

For, since the mortal and intestine jars

'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,

It hath in solemn synods been decreed

Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,

To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,

If any born at Ephesus be seen

At any Syracusian marts and fairs;

Again: if any Syracusian born

Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,

His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,

Unless a thousand marks be levied,

To quit the penalty and to ransom him.

Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,

Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;

Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.

The Comedy of Errors

This is a bilingual anthology of Shakespeare in both English and French. It collects Shakespeare's sonnets in addition to many passages taken from his plays, and is intended to help native French speakers learn Shakespeare's English. It mostly includes extracts from Shakespeare's tragedies, histories, and comedies. It is a split edition with Shakespeare's original text with the French translation on the opposing page. This anthology does not include any complete plays in English or French.

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Le roi Lear « Ce sont les astres, les astres d'en haut, qui gouvernent nos natures. » Avant de diviser son royaume entre ses trois filles, le roi Lear demande à chacune de lui prouver son amour. Alors que les deux aînées n'hésitent pas à jouer la carte de la flatterie, Cordélia se montre plus réservée. Blessé dans son orgueil par le refus de sa benjamine, Lear déshérite la seule de ses filles qui l'aime d'un amour véritable. Mais par sa vanité, Lear a provoqué sa perte. Bientôt banni à son tour, abandonné de tous, il sombre dans la folie. Le chaos s'empare du royaume maudit de Grande-Bretagne. Emmené par un monarque dont l'amour-propre entraîne la propre chute, la fin de son royaume et la mort de ses proches, ce drame familial épingle la bouffissure et l'hypocrisie des courtisans du XVIe siècle anglais.

Le Roi Lear

COUNTESS.

In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband.

BERTRAM. And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew; but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection.

LAFEU. You shall find of the king a husband, madam;-you, sir, a father: he that so generally is at all times good, must of necessity hold his virtue to you; whose worthiness would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it where there is such abundance.

COUNTESS.

What hope is there of his majesty's amendment?

LAFEU. He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose practices he hath persecuted time with hope; and finds no other advantage in the process but only the losing of hope by time.

COUNTESS. This young gentlewoman had a father-O, that 'had!' how sad a passage 'tis!-whose skill was almost as great as his honesty; had it stretched so far, would have made nature immortal, and death should have play for lack of work. Would, for the king's sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of the king's disease.

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