In Merchant, Shakespeare wove together two ancient folk tales, one involving a vengeful, greedy creditor trying to exact a pound of flesh, the other involving a marriage suitor's choice among three chests and thereby winning his (or her) mate.

The merchant of venice

Double Hamlet

After thwarting a rebellion that threatened his throne, King Henry IV's attention is now more directly focused on his son and heir, Prince Hal. Hal is still distanced from the court, spending his time in frivolous ways, while his former companion, Falstaff, finds nothing but trouble in the London underworld. But as Hal witnesses his father's declining health, he must begin to take his responsibility to the throne more seriously. Henry IV, Part II is one of four connected plays about successive British monarchs, including Richard II, Henry IV, Part I and Henry V. 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.

Henry Iv, Part Ii - A History

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 & Juliette

Sonnets 1609-2009

Tragicomédie en cinq actes. Le duc de Milan, Prospero, après avoir été déchu et exilé par son frère, se retrouve avec sa fille Miranda sur une île déserte. Grâce à la magie que lui confèrent ses livres, il maîtrise les éléments naturels et les esprits, notamment Ariel, esprit positif de l'air et du souffle de vie ainsi que Caliban, être négatif symbolisant la terre, la violence et la mort. La scène s'ouvre sur le naufrage, provoqué par Ariel, d'un navire portant le roi de Naples, son fils Ferdinand ainsi que le frère parjure de Prospero, Antonio. Usant de sa magie et de l'illusion, Prospero fera subir aux trois personnages échoués sur l'île diverses épreuves destinées à les punir de leur traîtrise, mais qui auront également un caractère initiatique...

La Tempête

"Questa Commedia degli errori, oltre a risultare divertente, saprà anche sorprendervi con giochi di parole, riflessioni, equivoci di assoluta modernità". Maurizio NichettiNulla è più comico ma al contempo serio del reale e avere modo di percepire la follia che ci circonda attraverso un'opera teatrale può rivelarsi un'esperienza unica, vivace, sagace. Pensate: quattro gemelli che si rincorrono in una Ephesus magica, a tratti diabolica, dove tutti peccano o hanno peccato. che poi, sai che novità, fosse solo Ephesus a essere così!Leggetela, se vi piace rimanere stupiti, altrimenti leggete libri di ricette, di solito più prevedibili; leggetela, perché è la definizione del suo genere, e perché capirete davvero come le parole e i loro giochi possano diventare magici e trasformare gli eventi; leggetela perché è dannatamente sfacciata, come le sorprese che la vita può riservarci, così poi quando scoprirete di avere un gemello dal quale siete stati separati alla nascita, prenderete la prima nave per Ephesus insieme al vostro schiavo, anche lui alla ricerca del proprio gemello, mettendo a repentaglio la vostra vita, quella di vostro padre e di vostra madre, e saprete almeno come - non - comportarvi. Leggetela perché non leggerete al suo interno solo Shakespeare ma anche Plauto e Aristofane e tre al prezzo di uno pare al giorno d'oggi una gran cosa. Leggetela perché oltre a questi tre egregi, ne sono certa, (ri)troverete anche un po' di voi stessi e di quel vento che a volte spazza via la nostra pazza normalità.[dalla prefazione di Michela Golia]

La commedia degli errori

Les deux gentilshommes de Vérone ; la mégère apprivoisée ; peines d'amour perdues

Traduction adaptée pour le collège. Roméo et Juliette, adolescents nés à Vérone dans deux familles ennemies, tombent éperdument amoureux. Le génie de Shakespeare vient de créer l'un des couples mythiques de la littérature. Mais la pièce entraîne aussi le spectateur dans un monde à la fois truculent et violent, où la haine menace la passion à chaque instant. Implacablement, le destin mène les deux héros dans son terrible sillage. Recommandé pour les thèmes nouveau programme 4e : dire l'amour ; individu et société : confrontations de valeurs ? . Une approche vivante : une interview fictive de William Shakespeare ; le contexte et les repères historiques ; une présentation vivante des personnages. Des outils complets : deux axes d'analyse : - un genre : le drame élisabéthain, - un thème : amour et mort ; des pauses lecture pour analyser les passages clés ; des exercices de vocabulaire et des travaux d'écriture. Lecture supplémentaire Une nouvelle extraite du Décaméron de Boccace. Analyse d'images : un dossier iconographique en couleurs

The merchant of venice

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