Tempest, the

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 & Juliette

Venus and adonis

Roméo et Juliette (Romeo and Juliet) est une tragédie de William Shakespeare. Écrite vers le début de sa carrière, elle raconte l'histoire de deux jeunes gens, Roméo Montaigu et Juliette Capulet, qui s'aiment malgré la haine que se vouent leurs familles et connaissent un destin funeste.

Roméo et Juliette

Dans la grande salle du palais des rois de l'île de Bretagne, le vieux roi Lear réunit ses filles, leurs maris et son fidèle ami le comte de Kent. Il annonce son désir de se retirer du pouvoir et sa décision de diviser son royaume entre ses trois filles, Goneril mariée au duc d'Albany, Régane épouse de Cornouailles et Cordélia, la plus jeune, courtisée par le duc de Bourgogne et le roi de France. La plus large part sera offerte à celle qui saura lui déclarer qu'elle l'aime le mieux.

Le Roi Lear

Hamlet - MacBeth

Les Joyeuses Commères De Windsor

Shakespeare's combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world's most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of world literature. 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 renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and includes an introduction by Dr Robert Mighall. A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge until his apparent insanity begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.

Hamlet - Prince of Denmark

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Mesure pour Mesure (Measure for Measure en anglais) est une pièce de William Shakespeare, à l'origine classée dans le premier in-folio comme comédie. C'est une des pièces « problématiques » du dramaturge qui passent pour inclassables.

Parue pour la première fois dans le premier in-folio de 1623, elle a probablement été composée au début du XVIIE siècle puisque la première mention écrite d'une représentation date de 1604. La pièce aborde la question de la grâce, de la justice, de la vérité et comment elles s'articulent sur l'orgueil ou l' humilité, la rédemption et la chute : « Il en est que le péchéélève et d'autres que la vertu fait chuter. »

Cette pièce a été conçue dans l'époque dite "pessimiste" de Shakespeare. Il s'agit pour lui de peindre les maux et les tares les plus corrosives de l'âme humaine. Ici, il révèle la perversion latente dissimulée dans la vertu la plus austère.

Bien que l' intrigue se déroule à Vienne, il est tentant de relier cette intrigue sur la liberté des mours et sur l' hypocrisie qui résulte d' un excès de rigueur à ce sujet, au puritanisme qui prévalait dans la patrie de Shakespeare à l' époque élisabéthaine.

Tempest, the

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