Honte et malédiction sur le royaume de Grande-Bretagne! Folie, trahison, mensonge, cupidité, orgueil démesuré! Tous les vices y grouillent comme autant de rats affamés. Tous les crimes s'y préparent...
Lear a voulu savoir! Ô! Roi, ta sagesse n'a pas grandi au fil des années... Hélas! Vanité stupide, insolence coupable, curiosité funeste: tu as voulu savoir et provoquer les dieux.
La fille féroce enfonce ses crocs; l'autre se prépare à la curée; le fils, contre son frère, trame la ruine du père, la soeur contre la soeur, l'épouse contre l'époux. La bouche déchire la main qui l'a nourrie, dépèce le flanc qui l'a portée, vomit l'amour qui l'a élevée. Ô, Lear, seigneur infortuné, tu sauras donc de tes filles laquelle t'aimait le mieux...

Le roi Lear

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.)

Roméo Et Juliette

Extrait : "THESEE : Belle Hippolyte, l'heure de notre hymen s'avance à grands pas : quatre jours fortunés amèneront une lune nouvelle ; mais que l'ancienne me semble lente à décroître ! Elle retarde l'objet de mes désirs, comme une marâtre, ou une douairière, qui puise longtemps dans les revenus du jeune héritier."

Le Songe d'une nuit d'été

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.

Bilingue William Shakespeare Anthologie

Madly in love with Cressida, Trojan prince Troilus is heartbroken when she is traded to the Greeks in a prisoner exchange. Amidst the turmoil of the two lovers, Greece and Troy remain at war with Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks, and Priam, the king of Troy, at their respective helms. Shakespeare's most experimental and undefinable play, Troilus and Cressida's interweaving plots tell various stories of the Trojan War. Known as "The Bard of Avon, " William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare's works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare's innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Troilus And Cressida - A Tragedy

Dans la Vérone de la Renaissance, deux illustres familles - les Montagues et les Capulets - s'affrontent et couvrent la ville de sang. Un soir, lors d'un bal, les héritiers de ces clans ennemis, Roméo et Juliette, se voient et tombent instantanément amoureux l'un de l'autre.

Mais comment s'aimer quand on est né pour se détester? Que faire afin d'échapper au poids des lois familiales ? Pour les deux amants, la fuite paraît la seule issue possible. Hélas, Roméo et Juliette apprendront à leurs dépens que leur innocente jeunesse est impuissante face à un destin qui les dépasse et que l'amour, comme la haine, peut conduire à la mort.

Avec Roméo et Juliette, Shakespeare explore l'intensité des passions et met en scène le sacrifice d'un amour interdit.

Roméo et Juliette

Qui n'a jamais entendu la citation "Etre ou ne pas être", le passage le plus célèbre de toute la littérature anglaise ? Mais qui prononce ces mots tragiques, et pourquoi ?

À la mort du Roi du Danemark, c'est son frère, Claudius, qui monte sur le trône. Depuis, un spectre rôde aux alentours du château d'Elseneur, et le prince Hamlet, fils du défunt roi, se porte à sa rencontre. Or ce spectre n'est nul autre que le fantôme du roi qui révèle à son fils que c'est Claudius qui l'a assassiné... Comment Hamlet pourra-t-il venger sa mort ?

Surnommé le "Barde", William Shakespeare (1564-c.1616) est considéré de par le monde comme l'un des plus grands dramaturges de l'Histoire et l'écrivain le plus important de la littérature anglophone. Son existence est controversée, mais les nombreuses ouvres qu'il a léguées au monde ont influencé des générations de lecteurs et d'écrivains et continuent, aujourd'hui encore, d'être mises en scène ou adaptées au cinéma.

Hamlet

In one of William Shakespeare's most popular poems, Venus spies the young and beautiful Adonis as he prepares for a hunt. She passionately kisses and attempts to seduce him, but Adonis is young and more interested in his hunt, and so he leaves Venus, only to find his own tragic end. Known as "The Bard of Avon, " William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare's works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare's innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

Venus And Adonis - A Poem

Extrait :"ARCHIDAMUS : Si le sort veut, Camillo, que vous visitiez la Bohême pour une raison de service comme celle qui me tient ici sur pied, vous verrez, ainsi que je vous l'ai dit, une grande différence entre notre Bohême et votre Sicile. CAMILLO : Je crois que, l'été prochain, le roi de Sicile a l'intention de rendre à son frère de Bohême la visite qu'il lui doit justement."

Le roi Lear

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