« Oh ! prenez garde, monseigneur, à la jalousie !
C'est le monstre aux yeux verts qui produit l'aliment dont il se nourrit ! »

Général de Venise, Othello est un homme heureux : il a épousé la belle  et vertueuse Desdémona. Mais son bonheur est fragile... Jaloux, le perfide Iago tente de séduire Desdémona qui le repousse. Pour se venger, il persuade Othello qu'elle a pour amant l'honnête Cassio,
distillant le mensonge à la façon d'un venin.
Tragédie captivante, magistralement construite, Othello est sans doute l'une des plus belles expressions littéraires de la jalousie.

Othello

C'est la plus mythique des écritures de Shakespeare. Convergence absolue de folie, d'amour, et de poésie. Du théâtre, produit ici, dans tout son art, dans toute sa mise en abîme, présent derrière chaque syllabe, chaque situation, pour nous embarquer, de signes en signes, vers le sommet d'un pur au-delà poétique. Et on se prendra de plein fouet, car il est bien question de cela, la voracité de la représentation de la folie par Hamlet. Le barde semble mettre ici de côté son art d'une poésie au service de l'art d'aimer pour la faire basculer au service de l'art d'être fou. Troubles d'oppositions comportementales, hallucinations visuelles et auditives, mélancolies psychédéliques sont donc au rendez-vous. Mais aussi guerres absurdes menées par des orgueils démesurés, amours violents et possessifs, place assignée de la femme dans l'histoire, arnaque du narratif du pouvoir, contrôles abusifs de la population, tout y est pour qu'on s'y retrouve et se perde à jamais. Ophélie nous enterrera tous avec une leçon d'art brut dont on ne se relèvera pas. Ce n'est pas juste Hamlet qui est subversif et insolent. C'est Shakespeare, se cachant comme d'habitude derrière un léger paravent, qu'il suffit de déplacer. Parce qu'au théâtre, on y déplace des paravents.

Hamlet

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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

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Othello (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic   Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your eReader   with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based   on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro. The story, set in 16th-century   Venice and Cyprus, tells about a black general in the Italian army, Othello,   and what happened between him and his wife, Desdemona. The main villain in   this play is Iago; who is a soldier under Othello's command. Iago tells   Othello numerous lies about Desdemona and Othello's friend, and former   right-hand man, Cassio. 
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.

Othello (The Unabridged Play) + 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

Tiraillés entre deux familles qui se haïssent, Juliette Capulet et Roméo Montaigu tombent pourtant éperdument amoureux l'un de l'autre. Afin d'empêcher sa fille de s'engager avec Roméo, le père de Juliette arrange en toute hâte une union avec le comte Pâris...

The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. 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 features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and an introduction by actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Prospero has long been exiled from Italy and banished to a remote island with his daughter Miranda. He uses his magical powers to conjure up a fearsome storm, and his enemies, including his treacherous broth Antonio, are shipwrecked. There follows a play filled with murderous plots, drunken confusion, love and redemption. And along the way, the reader discovers an unmistakable message that this is Shakespeare's own farewell to the stage.

The Tempest

Romeo Y Julieta Clasicos a Medida

Das Theater war gedrängt voll; ein neuangeworbener Sänger gab den Don Juan. Das Parterre wogte, von oben gesehen, wie die unruhige See, und die Federn und Schleier der Damen tauchten wie schimmernde Fische aus den dunkeln Massen. Die Ranglogen waren reicher als je, denn mit dem Anfang der Wintersaison war eine kleine Trauer eingefallen, und heute zum erstenmal drangen wieder die schimmernden Farben der reichen Turbans, der wehenden Büsche, der bunten Schals an das Licht hervor. Wie glänzend sich aber auch der reiche Kranz von Damen um das Amphitheater zog, das Diadem dieses Kreises schien ein herrliches, liebliches Bild zu sein, das aus der fürstlichen Loge freundlich und hold die Welt um und unter sich überschaute. Man war versucht zu wünschen, dieses schöne Kind möchte nicht so hoch geboren sein, denn diese frische Farbe, diese heitere Stirne, diese kindlich reinen, milden Augen, dieser holde Mund war zur Liebe-nicht zur Verehrung aus der Ferne geschaffen. Und wunderbar, wie wenn Prinzessin Sophie diesen frevelhaften Gedanken geahnet hätte-auch ihr Anzug entsprach diesem Bilde einfacher, natürlicher Schönheit; sie schien jeden Schmuck, den die Kunst verleiht, dem stolzen Damenkreis überlassen zu haben.

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