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

Films, livres, ballets, comédies musicales, le mythe de Roméo et Juliette demeure l'un des plus fertiles en termes d'adaptations et de réécritures. Le signe que les amants de Vérone sont notre miroir. Ils nous disent que l'amour et la haine peuvent conduire à la mort, que l'innocence face à l'intrigue perd souvent le combat, posant la question du destin avec une acuité inégalée. Dans cette aventure universelle, le génie de Shakespeare est celui d'un orfèvre ciselant un chant tragique bouleversant.

RomÃ©o et Juliette

Chaque fois que j'ai lu Shakespeare, il m'a semblé que je déchiquetais la cervelle d'un jaguar. (Lautréamont)

Titus Andronicus, Antoine et Cléopâtre, Jules César, Coriolan

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THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK

THE SONNETS

THE TEMPEST.

ROMEO AND JULIET

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

TWELFTH NIGHT

"Two households, both alike in dignity, 

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 

From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 

Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 

From forth the fatal loins of these two foes 

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; 

Whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows 

Doth with their death bury their parents' strife. 

The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, 

And the continuance of their parents' rage, 

Which but their children's end naught could remove, 

Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; 

The which, if you with patient ears attend, 

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. "

William Shakespeare Collection

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

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. He sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello's African past. Shakespeare builds so many differences into his hero and heroine—differences of race, of age, of cultural background—that one should not, perhaps, be surprised that the marriage ends disastrously. But most people who see or read the play feel that the love that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of Othello's standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him by destroying his love for Desdemona. As Othello succumbs to Iago's insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination—which dominates the early acts of the play—turns to horror, especially for the audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in the grip of Iago's schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello's mistaken convictions about her faithlessness.

Othello

[C]e qui rend cette version vibrante, d’une extraordinaire efficacité scénique, c’est sa langue. [...] Toute compliquée et imagée qu’elle soit, la langue shakespearienne est propulsée par des rythmes motoriques d’une énergie sidérante : c’est une langue qui galope comme un cheval, qui claque comme une oriflamme, qui tranche comme un sabre. C’est une langue au grand souffle qui ancre l’acteur dans le réel pour mieux le propulser dans une dimension supra-humaine, celle de la scène, où tout est plus concentré, plus dense, plus intense que dans la vie. Ce Hamlet de Jean Marc Dalpé, comme celui de William Shakespeare, n’est pas fait pour être lu : il est fait pour être joué. Mais tournez quand même la page pour lire. Mais faites plaisir à Shakespeare et Dalpé : lisez à haute voix les passages qui vous appellent : ils vous enivreront. Paul Lefebvre, préface

Hamlet

Othello, a Moorish captain, secretly falls in love with and marries Desdemona, the daughter of a Venetian nobleman. While the two live happily at first, a spurned suitor of Desdemona's and Iago, an ambitious officer under Othello's command, plan to tear the couple apart out of revenge for perceived slights suffered at their hands. 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.

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