The little Love-god lying once asleep,

Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,

Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep

Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand

The fairest votary took up that fire

Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;

Shakespeare's Sonnets

Dans Folioplus classiques, le texte intégral, enrichi d'une lecture d'image, écho pictural de l'oeuvre, est suivi de sa mise en perspective organisée en six points : - MOUVEMENT LITTÉRAIRE : Le théâtre élisabéthain - GENRE ET REGISTRE : Drame élisabéthain et vision tragique - L'ÉCRIVAIN À SA TABLE DE TRAVAIL : Sources et différentes versions - GROUPEMENT DE TEXTES : Monologues de la vengeance - CHRONOLOGIE : William Shakespeare et son temps - FICHE : Des pistes pour rendre compte de sa lecture Recommandé pour les classes de lycée.

Hamlet

Roméo et Juliette est incontestablement un sommet du répertoire shakespearien et fait presque partie intégrante de notre mémoire collective. Après avoir mis en scène, aux Pays-Bas, le Roméo et Juliette de Gounod dirigé par Marc Minkowski, Olivier Py est revenu au texte original pour y chercher autre chose que la triste histoire damour que lopéra semble en avoir retenu. Une conviction sest alors imposée à lui : sils saiment, ces deux amants sublimes, cest parce que leur amour est impossible. Ce nest pas malgré le monde, la société, les préjugés, lhostilité entre les deux familles ou leurs propres penchants quéclate le coup de foudre, cest précisément grâce à tous ces obstacles. Comme si le monde se déchirait, et que souvrait alors la liberté du monde vrai. Cest cette liberté inaugurale, bien plus que la fatalité dune course à labîme qui a retenu lattention dOlivier Py.

Roméo et Juliette

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King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare written between 1603 and 1606   and later revised. Shakespeare's earlier version, The True Chronicle of the   History of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters, was   published in quarto in 1608. The Tragedy of King Lear, a more theatrical version,   was included in the 1623 First Folio. The title character descends into   madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters   based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. The play is   based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king.   
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.

King Lear + 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.)

Roméo et Juliette

Macbeth et Banquo, généraux de Duncan, roi d'Écosse, de retour d'une campagne victorieuse contre les rebelles, rencontrent dans la lande trois sorcières qui leur font une prophétie : Macbeth deviendra roi, affirment-elles, et Banquo engendrera des rois... Poussé par Lady Macbeth et désireux d'accéder au trône, Macbeth entreprend d'assassiner Duncan - premier crime d'une longue série. C'est ainsi que débute Macbeth (1606), l'une des plus célèbres tragédies de Shakespeare, qui relate une plongée dans le Mal extrême et absolu. Comme l'écrivait Victor Hugo dans William Shakespeare : «Macbeth, c'est la faim. Quelle faim ? La faim du monstre toujours possible dans l'homme. Certaines âmes ont des dents. N'éveillez pas leur faim.»Dossier : 1. Contexte et genèse de l'oeuvre2. De Faust à Macbeth : trajectoires du mal sur la scène élisabéthaine3. Le mal dans Macbeth4. Macbeth au fil des siècles.

Macbeth

Una de las principales tragedias de Shakespeare, publicada en 1605, basada en una antigua narración celta del siglo XII, la Historia Regum Britanniae. "El Rey Lear" nos cuenta la la historia de Lear y sus tres hijas, a través de una alegoría sobre la locura, la vejez, la ingratitud filial y las consecuencias de los propios errores. Se sumerge en las últimas profundidades de las acciones y el sentimiento humanos, llevándonos a uno de los más potentes dramas del autor sobre el embrutecimiento de la bondad por las intrigas del mal.

El Rey Lear

When the Three Witches prophesy that Macbeth, a Scottish general, will become king, they unleash a series of events that prove tragic for all involved. Spurred by ambition, Macbeth and his ruthless Lady will stop at nothing, including murder, to make the throne theirs. Beginning with the murder of King Duncan and culminating with Lady Macbeth's descent into madness and Macbeth's final clash with Macduff, Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's greatest dramatic works. 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. HarperPerennialClassics 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.

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