Entre une cérémonie de noces brutalement interrompue et un mariage unissant deux êtres connus pour se haïr, Beaucoup de bruit pour rien nous rappelle que l'amour ne suit jamais un cours régulier. Etincelante et jubilatoire, cette comédie romantique n'en repose pas moins sur un constat amer : tout n'est que vanité et aimer, c'est d'abord s'éprendre de soi-même, pour le meilleur et pour le pire.

Beaucoup de bruit pour rien

Comment le Maure Othello, valeureux général de l'armée vénitienne, en vient-il à se métamorphoser en bête sanguinaire ? Pourquoi un être d'une si haute noblesse se laisse-t-il convaincre par les calomnies d'un scélérat, jusqu'à tuer de ses mains son épouse bien-aimée ? Dans Othello, qui compte parmi les sommets du répertoire tragique, Shakespeare explore le vertige du mal pur - ce mal dont la naissance est obscure, banale, presque imperceptible, et qui soudain ouvre sous nos pas un gouffre au fond duquel on voit l'Enfer.

Othello

Hamlet

Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée d'une préface d'Yves Bonnefoy en 1991

Le roi Lear

Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert, and includes an introduction by Ned Halley. The Merchant of Venice is most associated not with its titular hero, Antonio, but with the complex, unforgettable figure of the money-lender, Shylock. It is Shylock who finances Antonio's friend Bassanio in his pursuit of the beautiful Portia, and who demands a gruesome bond from the wealthy merchant.

The Merchant of Venice

Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning him to death because he impregnated Juliet before their marriage.Claudio’s sister Isabella, who is entering a convent, pleads for her brother’s life. Angelo attempts to extort sex from her, but Isabella preserves her chastity. The duke, in disguise, eavesdrops as she tells her brother about Angelo’s behavior, then offers to ally himself with her against Angelo.

Mesure pour mesure

Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York;

And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,

Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.

Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;

And now, instead of mounting barded steeds

To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber

To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;

I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty

To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;

I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time

Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

And that so lamely and unfashionable

That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

Have no delight to pass away the time,

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

And descant on mine own deformity:

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

I am determined to prove a villain

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,

To set my brother Clarence and the king

In deadly hate the one against the other:

And if King Edward be as true and just

As I am subtle, false and treacherous,

This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,

About a prophecy, which says that 'G'

Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.

Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here

Richard III

Hamlet, Othello - Occasion

" II y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume du Danemark ! " Le soir venu, le spectre du roi défunt hante les brumes du château d'Elseneur.II crie vengeance. Honte à son frère Claudius, le lâche assassin ! Hamlet, son fils, a promis... Ce crime ne restera pas impuni. Mais au bord du gouffre, le voilà qui vacille : " Être ou ne pas être ? " Jeu de miroirs, faux-semblants... Théâtre dans le théâtre... Folie simulée ou véritable démence ? Le meurtre est pourtant bien réel. Et la mort d'Ophélie annonce d'autres désastres. Au coeur de la tragédie jaillissent alors les voix mystérieuses du pouvoir et de la guerre, de l'amour et de la mort.La poésie de Shakespeare fuse à chaque instant en vocalises sublimes, composant ici le mythe universel d'une humanité confrontée à ses propres démons...

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