Extrait : "LE BOSSEMAN : Me voici, maître. Où en sommes-nous ? LE MAÎTRE : Bon, parlez aux matelots. - Manoeuvrez rondement, ou nous courons à terre. De l'entrain ! de l'entrain ! LE BOSSEMAN : Allons, mes enfants ! courage, courage, mes enfants ! vivement, vivement, vivement ! Ferlez le hunier. - Attention au sifflet du maître. - Souffle, tempête, jusqu'à en crever si tu peux."

La Tempête

Già, cos'è Amleto per noi? Cosa siamo noi, pubblico d'oggi, per lui? È idea comune che ci si debba chiedere cosa Amleto possa dire a noi; mai che ci si ponga il problema opposto, e serio: cosa possiamo dire noi ad Amleto? Siamo in grado di parlargli ancora, ci vorrà ancora come interlocutori delle sue rifl essioni ad alta voce? Siamo abbastanza attuali, per lui, abbastanza contemporanei a lui? Ridotto a icona kitsch come la Gioconda di Leonardo, è ormai un attaccapanni per i nostri pregiudizi del momento. Ma Amleto, ancora oggi, ci fissa con sguardo perplesso dal proscenio. Ci chiede di andargli incontro a mente sgombra. Questa traduzione è un invito a farlo.

La tragica storia di Amleto, principe di Danimarca

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

À lire un résumé quelconque de cette comédie-féerie, on perd pied dès la deuxième ligne. Deux éléments importants : une intrigue amoureuse, censée se passer à Athènes (Shakespeare s'inspire de sources antiques), et le royaume des fées, gouverné par Obéron et son épouse Titania, flanqués du lutin Puck, symbole des caprices de l'amour. Obéron, roi des elfes, ordonne à Puck de verser un philtre d'amour dans les yeux de Démétrius, jeune homme grec brouillé avec Hélène, et dans les yeux de sa femme, Titania, pour qu'elle tombe amoureuse d'un homme à tête d'âne (le tisserand Bottom), venu répéter la pièce que l'on doit jouer aux noces de Thésée et d'Hippolyta, reine des amazones. Après la réconciliation générale procurée par Obéron, Bottom et ses compagnons jouent Pyrame et Thisbé, théâtre dans le théâtre. Cette féerie entrelace donc dans une fugue plaisirs et intrigues, qu'elle noue et dénoue, comme elle rassemble la tradition grecque et les légendes de la forêt. Obéron et Titania rappellent Zeus et Héra, alor que Puck vient du fantastique scandinave. L'ensemble constitue un monde de rêve, où les personnages deviennent semblables aux elfes, où l'univers de la chevalerie se mêle aux allégories de la Renaissance.

Le songe d'une nuit d'été

The bitter, deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England.

Richard iii

Titus Andronicus ; Jules César ; Antoine et Cléopâtre ; Coriolan

«Sit down awhile;
And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story What we have two nights seen...» The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.
Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is called to wreak upon his uncle, Claudius, by the ghost of Hamlet's father, King Hamlet. Claudius had murdered his own brother and seized the throne, also marrying his deceased brother's widow.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play, and is among the most powerful and influential tragedies in English literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others". The play likely was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime, and still ranks among his most performed.

Hamlet

Shakespeare a écrit un des drames les plus propres à séduire les hommes d'aujourd'hui, comme ceux de son époque, un de ceux où lecteurs et spectateurs croient toujours retrouver l'écho de leurs propres incertitudes, de leurs propres inquiétudes, de leur propre désespoir. Les incidents en sont violents, certes, et il y a tant de morts à la fin que la scène est jonchée de cadavres. Cependant, le drame le plus intense est celui qui se joue dans l'âme d'Hamlet.Rêveur, épris de philosophie, il est soudain mis en face d'un devoir qui lui répugne, sans même être tout à fait sûr que les révélations du fantôme de son père qui l'exhorte à la vengeance ne sont pas une ruse du Prince des Ténèbres. Quand il est certain de la culpabilité du roi, il se résout à obéir à son père, mais avec quels atermoiements, quelles hésitations, quels scrupules !--back cover

Richard III / Roméo et Juliette / Hamlet

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.)

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