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Catharina refuse haut et fort de se soumettre à l'autorité de son père et au carcan de la société, s'attirant ainsi les foudres de toute la ville de Padoue. Sa jeune soeur, la douce et docile Bianca, est entourée d'une foule de prétendants. Mais leur père est intraitable, il ne mariera la cadette que lorsque l'aînée aura trouvé un époux. Les galants redoublent alors de stratagèmes pour parvenir à leurs fins. Quand l'audacieux Petruchio décide d'apprivoiser la jeune « mégère », cette virevoltante comédie prend un tournant inattendu.

La mégère apprivoisée

Shakespeare's gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences. 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 Dr Robert Mighall. Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon Malvolio, the countess's steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.

Twelfth Night

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. 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 Dr Robert Mighall. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions are realized. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war and witchcraft, Macbeth also explores the relationship between husband and wife, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

Macbeth

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

Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark. His heart is filled with sadness and pain. The new king, Claudius, murdered Hamlet's father and married the prince's mother. Will Hamlet be strong enough to take revenge ? Is he mad ? Or does he have a secret plan ?

Hamlet - Level 3

Peines d'amour perdues

"Enter Prospero and Miranda.

Mir. If by your art, my dearest father, you have

Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.

The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch,

But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek,

Dashes the fire out. O, I have suffer'd

With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel,

Who had, no doubt, some noble creature in her,

Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock

Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perish'd!

Had I been any god of power, I would

Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere

It should the good ship so have swallow'd and

The fraughting souls within her."

The Tempest (new classics)

Depuis de longues années, Yves Bonnefoy s'est persuadé que quelque chose de décisif a été expérimenté par Shakespeare dans l'assez brève période où l'auteur de Hamlet a écrit ses Sonnets. « Il a fait de ceux-ci, précise Yves Bonnefoy, une réflexion sur la poésie, de laquelle a résulté qu'il a choisi de cesser d'écrire des poèmes ; lesquels l'avaient rendu aussi notoire que son premier théâtre, pour se consacrer entièrement à la scène : choix qui, en profondeur, était en fait celui de la poésie en un sens plus moderne que celui que son époque plaçait dans les poèmes et leur prosodie régulière. C'est un choix qui est d'ailleurs reflété, médité et même explicité dans les pièces de très exactement ou juste après le moment où furent écrits les sonnets, notamment Roméo et As you like it. Je crois qu'il y a là une approche susceptible d'éclairer tout le théâtre de Shakespeare. »

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