Non, non, non et non ! Allez, viens en prison ! On va chanter tous les deux seuls ! Comme des oiseaux en cage ! Et quand tu me demanderas ta bénédiction, je me mettrai à genoux. Pour te demander pardon ? On vivre comma ça. Prier, chanter. Raconter de vieilles histoires et rire aux papillons dorés. On aura tous les potins de la cour par une bande de crétins. On aura de bonnes discussions pour savoir qui perd qui gagne... qui est in ? qui est out ? On prétendra expliquer le mystère des choses. Comme si on était les espions des dieux. On tiendra le coup entre les murs. Même au milieu de cette meute, de toutes ces sectes, de tous ces gangs qui vont et viennent comme la marée sous la lune.

Le Roi Lear

La Lamentable Tragédie De Titus Andronicus

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Les Deux Gentilshommes de Vérone (The Two Gentlemen of Verona) est une comédie de William Shakespeare qui date du début de sa carrière.

Elle présente la liste de personnages la plus réduite de tout le canon shakespearien et c'est dans cette pièce que Shakespeare met pour la première fois en scène une jeune fille se déguisant en garçon.

La pièce aborde les thèmes de l'amitié et de la fidélité, mais elle doit une grande partie de sa saveur comique au personnage du clown Thurio, serviteur du changeant Protéo, et à son chien Crab « le plus bel exemple de cabotinage de tout le théâtre shakespearien » selon le critique Stanley Wells.

Les deux gentilshommes de Vérone

« Léontes est-il fou ? Je ne le crois pas : je crois que c'est le personnage le plus sensé de cette pièce de fous. Car il a raison d'accuser sa femme et Polixènes ; il a raison de se repentir brusquement à l'annonce de la mort de son fils, car la trahison d'Hermione ne valait pas cela. 

Hermione et Polixènes ont été, absolument, infidèles, de la pire des infidélités qui est celle de la tendresse. Cette innocence qu'ils proclament se fonde sur la question de savoir : L'ont-ils fait ou ne l'ont-ils pas fait ? Sans doute aurait-il mieux valu qu'ils l'eussent fait, "dans l'escalier, sur une malle ou derrière une porte". J'ai envie de croire, avec Léontes, qu'un bébé peut naître d'attouchements des mains et des lèvres, en tous les cas dans un conte d'hiver. Quoiqu'il en soit, il a bien raison de croire que cet enfant ne lui appartient pas : le flirt auquel ils se livrent sous ses yeux pendant neuf mois en a transféré la propriété. » (B.-M. K.)

Cette traduction par Koltès du Conte d'hiver de Shakespeare est parue en 1988.

Le conte d'hiver

This   carefully crafted ebook: "Othello (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 Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based   on the Italian short story Un Capitano Moro. The story, set in 16th-century   Venice and Cyprus, tells about a black general in the Italian army, Othello,   and what happened between him and his wife, Desdemona. The main villain in   this play is Iago; who is a soldier under Othello's command. Iago tells   Othello numerous lies about Desdemona and Othello's friend, and former   right-hand man, Cassio. 
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.

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

Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more;

I am not partial to infringe our laws:

The enmity and discord which of late

Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke

To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,

Who wanting guilders to redeem their lives

Have seal'd his rigorous statutes with their bloods,

Excludes all pity from our threatening looks.

For, since the mortal and intestine jars

'Twixt thy seditious countrymen and us,

It hath in solemn synods been decreed

Both by the Syracusians and ourselves,

To admit no traffic to our adverse towns Nay, more,

If any born at Ephesus be seen

At any Syracusian marts and fairs;

Again: if any Syracusian born

Come to the bay of Ephesus, he dies,

His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose,

Unless a thousand marks be levied,

To quit the penalty and to ransom him.

Thy substance, valued at the highest rate,

Cannot amount unto a hundred marks;

Therefore by law thou art condemned to die.

The Comedy of Errors

Dopo una vittoriosa battaglia, il prode Macbeth si imbatte in tre streghe che gli predicono un destino straordinario che lo condurrà sul trono di Scozia. Sospinto dall'ambizione di sua moglie, Macbeth uccide il re Duncan per prenderne il posto, facendo sì che si avveri la predizione delle streghe. Ma ben presto l'eroe sarà coinvolto in una spirale di omicidi che lo farà sprofondare, insieme alla moglie, nel baratro della follia. La visione allucinata di un pugnale fantasma, la comparsa delle streghe che svaniscono nel nulla, gli spettrali castelli di Forres, Inverness, Fife e Dunsinane, una serie di terribili apparizioni e predizioni: "Macbeth" offre un'ampia gamma di elementi in stile gotico. Sebbene il termine "gotico" non fosse d'uso comune al tempo in cui il dramma fu scritto e fino al diciottesimo secolo, le caratterizzazioni di Shakespeare in "Macbeth" ebbero una potente influenza sulla successiva letteratura gotica: il protagonista è un personaggio forte e crudele che anticipa una serie di eroi tirannici abituati a comandare tramite la forza e la paura, come ad esempio l'Heathcliff di Emily Brontë; così come Lady Macbeth precorre certe eroine nere, perverse e dannate della letteratura a venire. Tempeste e fulmini, quali elementi suggestivi e carichi di presagio, li ritroveremo anche in "Dracula" di Bram Stocker e in "Frankenstein" di Mary Shelley e nelle loro versioni cinematografiche."Macbeth", però, non è solo gotico. È soprattutto un dramma sull'ambizione divorante, sul potere nefasto della dittatura e sul senso di colpa, una tragedia in rosso e in nero incentrata sul Karma e sul libero arbitrio, una delle più oscure, affascinanti e potenti di William Shakespeare.

Macbeth

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 'The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven'

 Bassiano, a noble Venetian, hopes to woo the beautiful heiress Portia. However, he requires financial assistance from his friend Antonio. Antonio agrees, but he, in turn, must borrow from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. As recourse for past ills, Shylock stipulates that the forfeit on the loan must be a pound of Antonio's flesh. In the most renowned onstage law scene of all time, Portia proves herself one of Shakespeare's most cunning heroines, disguising herself as a lawyer and vanquishing Shylock's claims; meanwhile, Shylock triumphs on a humanitarian level with his plea for tolerance: 'Hath not a Jew eyes?'

 Viewed paradoxically as anti-Semitic, while at the same time powerfully liberal for its time, The Merchant of Venice is at its core a bittersweet drama, exploring the noble themes of prejudice, justice and honour.

The Merchant of Venice

Dans la Vérone de la Renaissance, Roméo s'éprend de Juliette. Mais les jeunes gens appartiennent à deux familles ennemies depuis toujours, les Montaigu et les Capulet. Pour avoir préféré l'amour à la haine, les deux amants connaîtront un destin tragique.

Le Roi Lear

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