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A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.

Romeo and juliet

De nombreux passages des oeuvres théâtrales de Shakespeare sont comme des instants suspendus dans le temps de la représentation, des " morceaux de bravoure ", que l'on a l'habitude d'isoler du contexte pour mettre en évidence leur portée humaine et intemporelle, et aussi leur enseignement durable : l'immortel " To be or not to be ", mais aussi " Mon royaume pour un cheval l ", " C'était le rossignol et non l'alouette. - C'était l'alouette, la messagère du matin, et non le rossignol ", ou encore " Le monde entier est un théâtre... " Tels sont quelques-uns des exemples qui demeureront encore longtemps dans les mémoires et que nous avons choisis pour ce livre, un best of de l'oeuvre shakespearienne.

Scènes célèbres / Famous scenes

Tragédies Tome 1 et Tome 2

This complete, line-by-line Macbeth translation makes the language of Shakespeare's play more modern while preserving the metrical rhythm, complexity, and poetic qualities of the original. The aim is to capture the sound and sense of Shakespeare's tragedy without the need for glosses or notes--to use contemporary language without simplifying or modernizing the play in any other way.

Macbeth

Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. 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.

Sonnets - Poems

Pour venir en aide à Bassanio et lui permettre de se rendre à Belmont afin de demander la main de son aimée Portia, le marchand Antonio emprunte de l'argent à l'usurier Shylock. Certain de pouvoir le rembourser, Antonio signe un contrat qui autorise son créancier à lui prélever une livre de chair en cas de défaut de paiement. Malheureusement, il ne peut faire face à l'échéance et Shylock, qui veut se venger des humiliations infligées par les chrétiens de Venise, insiste pour que le contrat soit appliqué à la lettre...Oscillant entre comédie et tragédie, Le Marchand de Venise soulève de nombreuses interrogations : considérée comme l'une des «pièces à problème» de Shakespeare, elle aborde notamment des questions religieuses, avec le personnage ambigu du juif Shylock, et explore la thématique du trompeur trompé.

Le marchand de Venise

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

Déchu de son titre de duc de Milan et exilé par son frère, Prospero échoit avec sa fille, Miranda, sur une île déserte. Dans son malheur, il est sauvé par la magie des livres qui lui enseignent la maîtrise des éléments, mais aussi des esprits, dont Ariel et Caliban.Douze ans plus tard…Grâce à Ariel, il provoque le naufrage du navire du roi de Naples qui se retrouve prisonnier de l’île, aux côtés de son frère Sébastien, du frère de Prospero, Antonio, de son fils Ferdinand, enfin du fidèle Gonzalo.Épris de vengeance, Prospero leur fait alors subir un certain nombre d’épreuves qui doivent les mener vers la vérité… Cette tragi-comédie en cinq actes, à valeur initiatique, a été créée en 1611. La force de l’œuvre réside dans ses personnages, perdus sur une île mystérieuse où tout est rendu possible par un maître-magicien, metteur en scène de leur espace mental et philosophique où se confrontent toutes les expressions des comportements et des sentiments humains.

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