A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.

Romeo and juliet

Suite au naufrage de leur bateau, Viola pense avoir perdu son jumeau Sébastien. Ne se laissant pas abattre et prenant le nom de Césario afin de se faire passer pour un homme, elle entre à la cour du duc Orsino dont elle tombe amoureuse. Celui-ci n'a pourtant d'yeux que pour Olivia : il charge Césario/Viola de faire part de son amour à l'élue de son coeur... qui, elle, s'énamoure de Césario/Viola ! 



Surnommé le "Barde", William Shakespeare (1564-c.1616) est considéré de par le monde comme l'un des plus grands dramaturges de l'Histoire et l'écrivain le plus important de la littérature anglophone. Son existence est controversée, mais les nombreuses oeuvres qu'il a léguées au monde ont influencé des générations de lecteurs et d'écrivains et continuent, aujourd'hui encore, d'être mises en scène ou adaptées au cinéma. Parmi les plus célèbres, figurent "Roméo et Juliette", "Hamlet", "Othello", "Le Roi Lear" ou encore "Macbeth".

Le Jour des Rois

SCENE I. An Apartment in the DUKE'S Palace.

[Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending.]

DUKE.

If music be the food of love, play on,

Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken and so die.-

That strain again;-it had a dying fall;

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,

That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odour.-Enough; no more;

'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!

That, notwithstanding thy capacity

Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,

Of what validity and pitch soever,

But falls into abatement and low price

Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy,

That it alone is high fantastical.

Twelfth Night

Les joyeuses commères de Windsor

Tempete -L Homme-

« Oh ! prenez garde, monseigneur, à la jalousie !

C'est le monstre aux yeux verts qui produit l'aliment dont il se nourrit ! »

Général de Venise, Othello est un homme heureux : il a épousé la belle et vertueuse Desdémona. Mais son bonheur est fragile. Jaloux, le perfide Iago tente de séduire Desdémona qui le repousse. Pour se venger, il persuade Othello qu'elle a pour amant l'honnête Cassio,

distillant le mensonge à la façon d'un venin.

Tragédie captivante, magistralement construite, Othello est sans doute l'une des plus belles expressions littéraires de la jalousie.

Othello

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 : Texte et dossier

L'adaptation manga de Macbeth de Shakespeare

Macbeth

À Vérone, au XVIe siècle, lors d'un bal, Roméo et Juliette, les héritiers des deux familles rivales Montaigu et Capulet, tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre. Malgré la guerre qui déchire les deux clans, ils décident de vivre leur amour.

Romeo and juliet

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