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Je sais un banc où s'épanouit le thym sauvage, où poussent l'oreille-d'ours et la violette branlante. Il est couvert par un dais de chèvrefeuilles vivaces, de suaves roses musquées et d'églantiers. C'est là que dort Titania, à certain moment de la nuit, bercée dans ces fleurs par les danses et les délices ; c'est là que la couleuvre étend sa peau émaillée, vêtement assez large pour couvrir une fée. Alors je teindrai ses yeux avec le suc de cette fleur, et je l'obséderai d'odieuses fantaisies. Prends aussi de ce suc, et cherche dans le hallier. Une charmante dame d'Athènes est amoureuse d'un jeune dédaigneux : mouille les yeux de celui-ci, mais veille à ce que le premier être qu'il apercevra soit cette dame. Tu reconnaîtras l'homme à son costume athénien. Fais cela avec soin, de manière qu'il devienne plus épris d'elle qu'elle n'est éprise de lui. Et viens me rejoindre sans faute avant le premier chant du coq.
Obéron Le Songe d'une nuit d'été

Le songe d'une nuit d'été ; les joyeuses commères de Windsor ; le  soir des rois

«Brutus Préférez-vous César vivant, et mourir esclaves, ou César mort, et tous vivre libres ? César m'aimait, je le pleure. Il connut le succès, je m'en réjouis. Il fut vaillant, je l'honore. Mais il fut ambitieux et je l'ai tué. Pour son amitié, des larmes. Pour sa fortune, un souvenir joyeux. Pour sa valeur, du respect. Et pour son ambition, la mort. Qui parmi vous est assez vil pour accepter d'être esclave ? Si un tel homme existe, qu'il parle. Car lui, je l'ai offensé. Qui est assez grossier pour ne pas désirer d'être un Romain ? Si un tel homme existe, qu'il parle. Car lui, je l'ai offensé. Qui est abject au point de n'aimer pas son pays ? Si un tel homme existe, qu'il parle. Car lui, je l'ai offensé.» (Acte III, scène 2)

Jules César

The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal.
The Tempest is the most lyrical, profound and fascinating of Shakespeare's late comedies. Prospero, long exiled from Italy with his daughter Miranda, seeks to use his magical powers to defeat his former enemies. Eventually, having proved merciful, he divests himself of that magic, his 'art', and prepares to return to the mainland. The Tempest has often been regarded as Shakespeare's 'farewell to the stage' before his retirement.
In the past, critics emphasised the romantically beautiful features of The Tempest, seeing it as an imaginative fantasia. In recent decades, however, The Tempest has also been treated as a potently political drama which offers controversial insights into colonialism and racism. Frequently staged and diversely filmed, the play has influenced numerous poets and novelists.

The tempest

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

Le roi Lear

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Winter's Tale (The Unabridged Play) + The   Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare" is formatted for your   eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, written around the middle of his career (1598 and 1599) and originally published in the First   Folio of 1623. The play is a story of loss and redemption. In a fit of wild   and unfounded jealousy, Leontes, the King of Sicily, convinces himself that   his pregnant wife is carrying his best friend's love child. Leontes's   jealousy turns to tyranny as the king proceeds to destroy his entire family   and a lifelong friendship. 
Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the   eminent critic Sidney Lee.  This book   was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published   in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National   Biography.
William Shakespeare (1564  - 1616)   was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in   the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often   called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon".  His extant works, including some   collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative   poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is   uncertain.
Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a   lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in   the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the   basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often   credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

The Winter's Tale (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare's "Sonnets" are the most beautiful example of love poetry ever written. With their uplifting spirit, coherence, intensity and dealing with the passing of age, of time, the evanescence of beauty offset by the permanence of true feelings, the "Sonnets" are a keystone of the English language literature. Composed at a time when "Sonnet craze" was rampant in England, the Sonnets, like many other Shakespearan works, raise as many questions as answers: W. H., the Fair Youth, the Dark Lady, were they to be publicised? Rediscover the "Sonnets" in this new edition by Les Éditions de Londres.

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