Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,

Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,

Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,

Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!

Crack nature's moulds, an germens spill at once,

That make ingrateful man!

King Lear

The Tempest is Shakespeare's masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. 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 features illustrations by renowned artist Sir John Gilbert and an introduction by actor, writer and director Simon Callow. Prospero has long been exiled from Italy and banished to a remote island with his daughter Miranda. He uses his magical powers to conjure up a fearsome storm, and his enemies, including his treacherous broth Antonio, are shipwrecked. There follows a play filled with murderous plots, drunken confusion, love and redemption. And along the way, the reader discovers an unmistakable message that this is Shakespeare's own farewell to the stage.

The Tempest

La Vie De Timon D'athènes

The phoenix and the turtledove are both symbols of love, devotion, and perfection. In this allegorical poem, Shakespeare depicts the funeral arrangements for the Phoenix and the Turtledove, representing love, unity, and marriage in the tragedy of their deaths. 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. HarperPerennial Classics 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 Phoenix And The Turtle - A Poem

Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York;

And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,

Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.

Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;

And now, instead of mounting barded steeds

To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber

To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;

I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty

To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;

I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time

Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

And that so lamely and unfashionable

That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

Have no delight to pass away the time,

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

And descant on mine own deformity:

And therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,

To entertain these fair well-spoken days,

I am determined to prove a villain

And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,

By drunken prophecies, libels and dreams,

To set my brother Clarence and the king

In deadly hate the one against the other:

And if King Edward be as true and just

As I am subtle, false and treacherous,

This day should Clarence closely be mew'd up,

About a prophecy, which says that 'G'

Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be.

Dive, thoughts, down to my soul: here

Richard III

Il n'y a pas de saison théâtrale sans qu'une ou plusieurs pièces de Shakespeare ne soit inscrite au programme. C'est le dramaturge le plus joué dans le monde. À juste titre. Ses pièces mettent en situation des conflits humains de toujours, des peurs ancestrales, des ambitions meurtrières, des angoisses existentielles. Othello, Hamlet, Prospero, Lady Macbeth sont certes des figures historiques, mais ils nous ressemblent ou, plutôt, nous leur ressemblons toujours. Et tant qu'il y aura des hommes, les pièces de Shakespeare leur fourniront les mots pour dire leur grandeur et leur détresse, leur générosités et leur mesquinerie, leur bassesse et leur poésie.

Oeuvres complètes : comédies Tome 1

Le Marchand de Venise : L'usurier juif Shylock, méprisé, détesté, honni, prête de l'argent à la jeunesse dorée qui mène la « dolce vita ». Ainsi Antonio, jeune marchand, qui veut épouser la riche héritière Portia. Mais s'il ne pouvait restituer le prêt, il devrait à Shylock, « une livre de chair »... Or un naufrage ruine Antonio. Procès. Portia déguisée en avocat le sauve : d'accord pour une livre de chair, mais à la moindre goutte de sang, Shylock sera pendu. Il renonce.

Revue L'Avant-scène théâtre : le marchand de venise

Extrait : "LE BOSSEMAN : Me voici, maître. Où en sommes-nous ? LE MAÎTRE : Bon, parlez aux matelots. - Manoeuvrez rondement, ou nous courons à terre. De l'entrain ! de l'entrain ! LE BOSSEMAN : Allons, mes enfants ! courage, courage, mes enfants ! vivement, vivement, vivement ! Ferlez le hunier. - Attention au sifflet du maître. - Souffle, tempête, jusqu'à en crever si tu peux."

La Tempête

Les Sonnets de Shakespeare ont donné lieu à de vives controverses sur leur signification autobiographique et sur la nature des relations entre le poète, le jeune aristocrate aimé et une femme brune perverse. Au-delà de ces hypothèses, la présentation de l'oeuvre par Robert Ellrodt met en évidence l'intensité dramatique et l'originalité singulière de poèmes qui vont à l'encontre des conventions littéraires et sociales de la Renaissance.
Dans cette édition bilingue, la traduction préserve la richesse des images et vise à faire entendre les harmonies du vers shakespearien sans recourir à la rime, qui trop souvent conduit au pastiche.

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