A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper.

Much ado about nothing: the oxford shakespeare (oxford world's classics)

Vérone, XVIème siècle. Les deux plus puissantes familles de la ville, les Capulet et les Montague, se vouent une haine
éternelle. Mais, lors d'un bal, le jeune Roméo Montague croise la belle Juliette Capulet : ils tombent éperdument amoureux dès le premier regard. Alors, malgré la guerre qui déchire les deux clans, Roméo et Juliette décident de vivre cet amour, quoi qu'il advienne, à la Vie à la Mort...

Roméo et Juliette

Inspiré par la prophétie de trois sorcières et par les conseils de sa femme, le général Macbeth assassine le roi d'Écosse pour s’emparer du trône. Ce meurtre, premier d’une longue série, le plonge dans la culpabilité et le fait sombrer dans la folie. En transposant ce texte culte, écrit en 1606, en langue vernaculaire québécoise, Garneau rompt avec la tradition des traductions françaises de Shakespeare et lui rend tout son pouvoir d’évocation. Le Macbeth de Garneau frappe par sa puissance poétique, véritable réincarnation de la parole shakespearienne. Traduite entre l’élection du Parti québécois et le premier référendum, et inspirée de la langue québécoise populaire puisée à même sa source ancestrale, la pièce devient un texte culte, faisant accéder le québécois au rang de langue mythique. Garneau rend ici à l’œuvre de Shakespeare ses dimensions politique, poétique et pulsionnelle. La «pièce écossaise» n’aura jamais été aussi sentie, vibrant sous la langue libre et souple du traducteur.

Macbeth

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

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Peines d'amour perdues (Love's Labour's Lost) est une des premières comédies de William Shakespeare. Probablement écrite vers 1595-1596, à l'époque de Roméo et Juliette et du Songe d'une nuit d'été.

Cette pièce est souvent considérée comme l'une des plus flamboyantes des comédies de Shakespeare. Elle regorge de jeux de mots sophistiqués, calembours, références littéraires et subtils pastiches des formes poétiques de l'époque.

Peines d'amour perdues

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 De Shakespeare

Roméo & Juliette

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Much Ado About Nothing (The Unabridged Play) + The   Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Written around the middle of his career (1598 and 1599), Much Ado About   Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from   the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young Claudio falls   for Hero, the daughter of Leonato, governor of Messina, and his friend Don   Pedro helps him secure her affection. These youthful lovers are contrasted   with the more experienced Benedick and Beatrice, who have to be tricked into   falling in love. Don Pedro's bastard brother, Don John, provides the   intrigue, and the dimwitted constable Dogberry provides the laughs.
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.

Much Ado About Nothing (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

Voici une réjouissante « nuit d'été ». Des amoureux se disputent, rompent, se réconcilient. Les dieux ne sont pas en reste : eux aussi ont des comptes à régler. La nature est en folie. Qu'importe ! On chante, on danse, on pleure. Le merveilleux est omniprésent. L'amour ne mène-t-il pas la danse ? Est-ce la réalité ? Ou un « songe » ? Et si le réel était lui-même un « songe » ? Le lecteur, lui, savoure la comédie.

Much ado about nothing: the oxford shakespeare (oxford world's classics)

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