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Romeo et Juliette

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L'action se déroule en Grèce et réunit pour mieux les désunir deux couples de jeunes amants, Lysandre, Démétrius, Hélène et Hermia. Hermia veut épouser Lysandre, mais son père, Égée, la destine à Démétrius, dont est amoureuse Hélèna. Lysandre et Hermia s'enfuient dans la forêt, poursuivis par Démétrius, lui-même poursuivi par Hélèna. Pendant ce temps, Obéron, roi des fées, a ordonné à Puck de verser une potion sur les paupières de sa femme, Titania. Il entre dans la forêt avec Puck. Pendant la nuit, la confusion règne...

Le songe d'une nuit d'été

The beautiful Portia has many suitors within Venetian society, among them the young nobleman Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune. Desperate to win Portia's heart, Bassanio borrows money from Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, and turns to Antonio, a wealthy merchant who has helped him in the past, to guarantee the loan. Shylock agrees, only with harsh terms-if Antonio does not repay the loan by the due date, Shylock will take a pound of Antonio's flesh. 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 Merchant Of Venice - A Comedy

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

La capitale des plaisirs réunit pour une courte pause, qu'?ils voudraient éternelle, l'?un des principaux chefs des vainqueurs du monde et la belle reine colonisée, au charme irrésistible. Mais l'?Empire romain veille, implacable et exigeant.

Antoine et Cléopâtre

C'est un monument ; l'une des quelques merveilles absolues du patrimoine littéraire de l'humanité. Les 154 Sonnets de William Shakespeare sont peut-être moins connus que les grandes ouvres dramaturgiques du barde de Stratford, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello et consorts, mais ils n'ont cessé, depuis quatre cents ans, d'ensorceler les lecteurs et de passionner la critique, à la fois par leur beauté, expression suprême de l'art poétique élisabéthain, et par leur impénétrable mystère. Car ces sonnets, s'ils participent pleinement à la légende de l'ouvre shakespearienne, en sont aussi l'une des énigmes. À qui s'adressent ces bouleversants poèmes d'amour, tour à tour ode à la procréation, hymne érotique et cri de rage jalouse ? Qui est ce mystérieux "W.H." à qui le recueil est dédié ? Qui, enfin, est le "William Shakespeare" qui parle ici et semble, au crépuscule de sa vie théâtrale, tomber le masque pour mettre son cour à nu ? Après avoir redonné vie et vigueur à l'ouvre de Malcolm Lowry et à celle de Walt Whitman, Jacques Darras nous offre ces Sonnets comme on ne les avait jamais lus - ou, faudrait-il dire plutôt, comme on ne les avait jamais entendus. Car tout l'enjeu de cette nouvelle traduction est de nous faire entendre la musique, proprement inouïe, des vers de Shakespeare : une symphonie baroque, échevelée, d'une audace contemporaine et d'une splendeur inépuisable.

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