À la cour d'Athènes, Hermia en appelle à la clémence de son père Égée qui veut lui imposer comme mari Démétrius, alors qu'elle aime Lysandre. Pour échapper à son sort, elle se réfugie dans la forêt, bientôt suivie par les autres protagonistes. Là, Obéron, roi des elfes, qui vient de se quereller avec sa femme Titania, fait appel au malicieux lutin Puck et à ses philtres d'amour. De nombreuses aventures amoureuses vont alors se croiser, se faire et se défaire, au gré des sortilèges et des intrigues, mêlant monde classique et monde légendaire.
Cette comédie à la fantaisie débridée se double d'une saveur parodique et satirique  : les amours heureuses sont-elles possibles sans enchantement  ? Avec Le Songe d'une nuit d'été, Shakespeare donne libre cours à une incroyable liberté d'imagination qui continue à fasciner le public moderne.
  
Traduction de François-Victor Hugo.

Édition établie et annotée par Yves Florenne.

Le songe d'une nuit d'été

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

Roméo et Juliette / Macbeth

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Du roy Richard III de William Shakespeare augmentée d'annexes (Biographie).

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This play is named after the Twelfth Night holiday of the Christmas season. It was written around 1601 and first published in the First Folio in 1623.   Like many of Shakespeare's comedies, this one centers on mistaken identity.   The leading character, Viola, is shipwrecked on the shores of Illyria during   the opening scenes. She loses contact with her twin brother, Sebastian, whom   she believes dead. Posing as a man and masquerading as a young page under the   name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino. Orsino is in love with   the bereaved Lady Olivia, whose brother has recently died and decides to use   "Cesario" as an intermediary. Olivia, believing Viola to be a man, falls in   love with this handsome and eloquent messenger. Viola, in turn, has fallen in   love with the Duke, who also believes Viola is a man and who regards her as   his confidant.
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.

Twelfth Night (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

Disguised as a man, Rosalind, along with her cousin Celia, flees her uncle's court. Finding refuge in the Forest of Arden, they are reunited with Rosalind's father, an exiled duke, and Orlando-also exiled and pining for his lost love, Rosalind. Still in disguise, Rosalind undertakes to help Orlando reunite with his beloved, while herself fighting off the advances of the shepherdess, Phebe. 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.

As You Like It - A Comedy

Hamlet

Christopher Sly se fait jeter, ivre, hors de la taverne et s'endort sous un buisson. Un lord et sa suite le découvrent. Le lord décide de s'amuser à ses dépens ; il le fait emmener chez lui dans sa plus belle chambre. On fait croire à Sly qu'il se réveille de quinze années de désordre mental, et qu'il est un noble et riche lord... 
Pour poursuivre son plaisir, le lord a engagé une troupe de comédiens et offre à Sly le spectacle d'une pièce de théâtre. Baptista, vieil aristocrate de Padoue a deux filles : Catarina, la mégère, au caractère revêche et faisant fuir tout prétendant éventuel et la douce Bianca que convoitent bien des gentilshommes dont Hortensio et Gremio. Lorsque le jeune seigneur Lucentio débarque de Pise, il en tombe immédiatement amoureux et décide de la conquérir. Mais, pour cela, il faut d'abord que Catarina trouve un prétendant ; mais qui voudrait d'une jeune fille au caractère aussi épouvantable ? C'est alors que Petruchio se présente au père des deux jeunes filles et déclare vouloir épouser Catarina...
Shakespeare présente un bel exemple de mise en abyme : les premiers personnages, Sly et le lord, deviennent spectateurs d'une autre pièce de théâtre, ce qui met le vrai spectateur à la marge de la représentation et le force à dédoubler son attention puisque la première pièce continue subrepticement. 
La tromperie est à l'honneur dans cette comédie : le lord se joue de Sly et Lucentio prend la place de son valet pour mieux arriver à ses fins. La pièce toute entière se joue du spectateur et des repères classiques.

La mégère apprivoisée

King.

Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death

The memory be green, and that it us befitted

To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom

To be contracted in one brow of woe;

Yet so far hath discretion fought with nature

That we with wisest sorrow think on him,

Together with remembrance of ourselves.

Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen,

Th' imperial jointress to this warlike state,

Have we, as 'twere with a defeated joy, -

With an auspicious and one dropping eye,

With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,

In equal scale weighing delight and dole, -

Taken to wife; nor have we herein barr'd

Your better wisdoms, which have freely gone

With this affair along:-or all, our thanks.

Now follows, that you know, young Fortinbras,

Holding a weak supposal of our worth,

Or thinking by our late dear brother's death

Our state to be disjoint and out of frame,

Colleagued with this dream of his advantage,

He hath not fail'd to pester us with message,

Importing the surrender of those lands

Lost by his father, with all bonds of law,

To our most valiant brother. So much for him, -

Now for ourself and for this time of meeting:

Thus much the business is:-we have here writ

To Norway, uncle of young Fortinbras, -

Who, impotent and bed-rid, scarcely hears

Of this his nephew's purpose, -to suppress

His further gait herein; in that the levies,

The lists, and full proportions are all made

Out of his subject:-and we here dispatch

You, good Cornelius, and you, Voltimand,

For bearers of this greeting to old Norway;

Giving to you no further personal power

To business with the king, more than the scope

Of these dilated articles allow.

Farewell; and let your haste commend your duty.

Le songe d'une nuit d'été

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