In sooth I know not why I am so sad,

It wearies me: you say it wearies you;

But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,

What stuffe 'tis made of, whereof it is borne,

I am to learne: and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of

mee,

That I have much ado to know myself

The Merchant of Venice

Idéal pour lire en VO un classique de la littérature anglo-saxonne. A découvrir : un texte en anglais adapté et revu par des enseignants, de belles illustrations, un lexique en fin d'ouvrage pour aider à la compréhension du texte et une version audio pour s'imprégner du bon accent. Idéal pour des élèves de collège.

Read in English : Romeo and Juliet ; 3e

"You are deluded, Romeo. Vampires do not have the capability to love. They are heartless." The Capulets and the Montagues have some deep and essential differences. Blood differences. Of course, the Capulets can escape their vampire fate, and the Montagues can try not to kill their undead enemies. But at the end of the day, their blood feud is unstoppable. So it's really quite a problem when Juliet, a vampire-to-be, and Romeo, the human who should be hunting her, fall desperately in love. What they don't realize is how deadly their love will turn out to be-or what it will mean for their afterlives.

Romeo & Juliet & Vampires

Extrait : "JULIETTE : O Roméo ! Roméo ! pourquoi es-tu Roméo ? Renie ton père et abdique ton nom ; ou, si tu ne le veux pas, jure de m'aimer, et je ne serai plus une Capulet. ROMEO, à part : Dois-je l'écouter encore ou lui répondre ? JULIETTE : Ton nom seul est mon ennemi. Tu n'es pas un Montague, tu es toi-même. Qu'est-ce qu'un Montague ? Ce n'est ni une main, ni un pied, ni un bras, ni un visage, ni rien qui fasse partie d'un homme."

Roméo et Juliette

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.)

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

À lire un résumé quelconque de cette comédie-féerie, on perd pied dès la deuxième ligne. Deux éléments importants : une intrigue amoureuse, censée se passer à Athènes (Shakespeare s'inspire de sources antiques), et le royaume des fées, gouverné par Obéron et son épouse Titania, flanqués du lutin Puck, symbole des caprices de l'amour. Obéron, roi des elfes, ordonne à Puck de verser un philtre d'amour dans les yeux de Démétrius, jeune homme grec brouillé avec Hélène, et dans les yeux de sa femme, Titania, pour qu'elle tombe amoureuse d'un homme à tête d'âne (le tisserand Bottom), venu répéter la pièce que l'on doit jouer aux noces de Thésée et d'Hippolyta, reine des amazones. Après la réconciliation générale procurée par Obéron, Bottom et ses compagnons jouent Pyrame et Thisbé, théâtre dans le théâtre. Cette féerie entrelace donc dans une fugue plaisirs et intrigues, qu'elle noue et dénoue, comme elle rassemble la tradition grecque et les légendes de la forêt. Obéron et Titania rappellent Zeus et Héra, alor que Puck vient du fantastique scandinave. L'ensemble constitue un monde de rêve, où les personnages deviennent semblables aux elfes, où l'univers de la chevalerie se mêle aux allégories de la Renaissance.

Le songe d'une nuit d'été

Much Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language. In this new edition, Travis D. Williams reviews recent stage, television, film and critical interpretations of the play, considering treatment of the play's special interest in language, bodies and gender.

Much ado about nothing

THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

THE SONNETS

THE TEMPEST.

ROMEO AND JULIET

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

TWELFTH NIGHT

"Two households, both alike in dignity, 

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; 

Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows 

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. 

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, 

And the continuance of their parents' rage, 

Which but their children's end naught could remove, 

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; 

The which, if you with patient ears attend, 

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. "

The Merchant of Venice

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