Measure for measure

Qui a tué le roi Hamlet ? Sa veuve, la reine Gertrude ? Son  frère Claudius, devenu roi en épousant la veuve ? Le jeune  prince Hamlet, visité par le fantôme de son père, les  soupçonne tous deux... "Il est admis par tous qu'Hamlet est  plus vivant qu'un homme qui passe." Alfred Jarry.

Hamlet

Le général écossais Macbeth revient du combat où il a vaillamment défendu son seigneur Duncan quand, en pleine lande, trois sorcières apparaissent et lui annoncent qu'il deviendra roi. Lorsque Duncan lui rend visite pour le récompenser de sa bravoure, Macbeth, hanté par la prédiction des sorcières etpoussé par sa femme, tue son hôte et s'empare du pouvoir. En proie au remords, le couple sombre peu à peu dans la folie...

Macbeth

Tempete -L Homme-

In this striking tragedy of political conflict, Shakespeare turns to the ancient Roman world and to the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. The play is one of tumultuous rivalry, of prophetic warnings—“Beware the ides of March”—and of moving public oratory—“Friends, Romans, countrymen!” Ironies abound and most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.

Jules César

King Lear is driven to the brink of madness by his own actions when he disinherits his youngest daughter, the lovely Cordelia, because of her inability to express her love for him. Having divided his realm between his remaining daughters, Goneril and Regan, Lear is betrayed by his two foolish and deceitful children, and is left to wander the heath with only his Fool, his servant Caius, and the madman Tom O'Bedlam for company. Eventually reunited with Cordelia, Lear is too late repents his rashness, and must face the tragic consequences of his choices. 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.

King Lear - A Tragedy

Identical twins separated at birth provides the foundation for humour in one of Shakespeare's earlier plays. The young twin sons of Egeon, alongside another set of young twin boys, purchased as slaves, are lost to one another during a tempest at sea. Egeon, who saves one son and his slave by tying them to the mast, is separated from his wife, who is rescued with their other boy and his slave. As each searches for the other, the stage is set for a romp that revolves around mistaken identity, physical mishaps, and the comedy of errors referenced in the title. 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. HarperPerennialClassics 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.

The Comedy Of Errors - A Comedy

C'est donc un paysage onirique bouleversant que nous avons sous les yeux. D'une profondeur, d'une vérité à la fois troubles et infinies. Toute la pièce commence avec la jalousie du roi Léonte, comme un excès d'amour qui en un cillement se transforme en folie. Dès cet instant, elle semble courir vers la catastrophe et l'écriture prend le rythme cataclysmique et malade de la psyché du roi. Nous avons sous les yeux l'immensité du récit intime, le paysage diffracté de la douleur. C'est en cela que la pièce est une pièce-monde, qui nous révèle ce que nous sommes, en puissance, au plus profond de nous. Ce que nous perdons. Ce que nous retrouvons. C'est peut-être cela l'hiver du conte : le feu qui brûle sous la glace et qui s'apaise quand le Temps a accompli son oeuvre. Jean-René Lemoine

Le Conte d'hiver - The Winter's Tale

Pour la première fois un texte anglais répondant aux exigences philologiques les plus sévères et une traduction française moderne en regard.Génie universel, Shakespeare (1564-1616) n'a pas seulement excellé dans la tragédie et le drame historique. Parmi ses dix comédies, on trouve quelques-unes de ses pièces les plus célèbres. Il n'est gère de saison théâtrale, même en France, sans une nouvelle mise en scène du Marchand de Venise, des Joyeuses Commères de Windsor, de La Nuit des rois ou du Songe d'une nuit d'été. Et les récentes adaptations de Shakespeare au cinéma prouvent l'extraordinaire vitalité de ces pièces et leur inusable modernité. C'est que Shakespeare, comme Homère, Dante ou Goethe, résume à lui seul toute l'humanité. "De bout en bout une indubitable réussite" Georges Bas, Etudes anglaises

Measure for measure

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