La tragédie du roi Richard II

THEATRE COMPLET. - Tome 2

Coffret oeuvres complètes : histoires

Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

Macbeth

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Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed. 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. Petruchio's courtship of the unwilling 'shrew' Katherina poses the question: is it an examination of brute male domination or a passionate love story with a powerful moral message? To read it is to gain unique insight into a portrait of a marriage as created by a true master.

The Taming of the Shrew

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

Horatio Look, my lord, it comes.
Hamlet Angels and ministers of grace defend us !
Be thou a spirit of health or goblin damned, Bring with theee airs form heaven or blasts from hell, Be thy intents wicked or charitable, Thou com'st in such a questionable shape That I will speak to thee. I'll call thee Hamlet, King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me !
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Entre le Spectre Horatio Regardez, Monseigneur, il vient.
Hamlet Anges et ministres de la grâce, défendez-nous !
Que tu sois esprit de salut ou gobelin damné, Que tu apportes la brise céleste ou les souffles de l'enfer, Que tes intentions soient malignes ou charitables, Tu viens sous une forme si énigmatique Que je veux te parler. Je t'appellerai Hamlet, Roi, père, souverain Danemark ! Oh, réponds-moi !
Ne me laisse pas étouffer d'ignorance, mais dis Pourquoi tes os bénis dans leur cercueil de mort Ont déchiré leur linceul, pourquoi le sépulcre Où nous t'avons vu inhumer en paix, A ouvert ses pesantes machoires de marbre Pour te rejeter...

Hamlet

On ne résume guère cette pièce, qui est d'une extrême complication, digne des pastorales baroques et maniéristes. Une cour entière est réfugiée en forêt autour de son roi exilé, Frédéric.
C'est alors la peinture des intrigues amoureuses avec masques et changements de sexe, mélancoliques et passionnés, sages et bouffons, jusqu'au rétablissement final de chacun dans ses droits.

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