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

"De même qu'elle a commencé avec Shakespeare dernier acte (tome I), la publication de ce théâtre complet se poursuit avec la traduction d'Hamlet, hommage à l'inspirateur déterminant de l'ensemble" ... (extrait de la postface).

Hamlet de William Shakespeare - Préface, traduction intégrale et postface. Théâtre XI

Hamlet

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Shakespeare Roméo et Juliette Le Songe d'une nuit d'été Roméo aimait Rosaline. Lysandre aimait Hermia et Démétrius Héléna. Tout à coup, comme en dansant, les hommes changent de cavalières. Juliette apparaît à Roméo et leurs lèvres se joignent au milieu du bal.
Une nuit d'été, un lutin efßeure les paupières d'un homme endormi, à son réveil il en aime une autre.
Illumination pour Roméo et Juliette, illusion pour les amants du Songe, l'amour est fou. Shakespeare en chante la douce et terrible folie, l'enchantement quand il donne l'amour de la vie, le désespoir quand il l'anéantit et appelle la mort.
Truculence et humour, fantaisie, charme et poésie, Shakespeare parle toutes les langues d'un monde universel. Roméo et Juliette sont le symbole de l'amour parfait et l'on voudrait que l'alouette n'ait jamais chanté après le rossignol.
 
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Roméo et Juliette ; le songe d'une nuit d'été

Two couples-Benedick and Beatrice, and Hero and Claudio-must overcome deception, gossip, and, occasionally, their own misplaced pride if their love is to persevere. Aided by military commander Don Pedro and impeded by his brother Don John, the friends go to great lengths in the pursuit of marriage. 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.

Much Ado About Nothing - A Comedy

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

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

Una de las principales tragedias de Shakespeare, publicada en 1605, basada en una antigua narración celta del siglo XII, la Historia Regum Britanniae. "El Rey Lear" nos cuenta la la historia de Lear y sus tres hijas, a través de una alegoría sobre la locura, la vejez, la ingratitud filial y las consecuencias de los propios errores. Se sumerge en las últimas profundidades de las acciones y el sentimiento humanos, llevándonos a uno de los más potentes dramas del autor sobre el embrutecimiento de la bondad por las intrigas del mal.

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