Hamlet . El rei Lear . Macbeth . Traducció de Salvador Oliva. Pròlegs de S. Oliva i N. Frye. Hamlet, El rei Lear i Macbeth es compten indubtablement entre les obres més conegudes, celebrades i representades del seu autor, i entre les creacions més genials de l'esperit humà en tota la seva història. Infinitament glossades, interpretades, copiades, adaptades, aquestes tres tragèdies es llegeixen incansablement, perquè sempre procuren al lector el plaer més intens i ensenyaments nous i diversos a cada lectura.
Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess's steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.
A poor physician's daughter cures the King of France, and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man she chooses, the proud young Count of Rosillion, refuses to consummate the forced marriage and flees to Florence. Depicting the triumph of trickery over youthful arrogance, All's Well that Ends Well is among Shakespeare's darkest romantic comedies, yet it remains a powerful tribute to the strength of love.
Shakespeare, who clearly preferred his women characters to his men (always excepting Falstaff and Hamlet), enlarges the human from the start, by subtly suggesting that women have the truer sense of r
Harold Bloom on The Merchant of Venice: "Shylock's prose is Shakespeare's best before Falstaff's...His utterances manifest a spirit so potent, malign, and negative as to be unfor
The exciting new series that began in Fall 2004 with "Macbeth," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and "Henry IV" continues... "Negative charisma is an odd endowment; Iago represents it uniquely in Shakespeare, and most literary incarnations of it since owe much to Iago." - Harold Bloom Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare series will include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions and commentary by Harold Bloom.
Publicados en 1609, los Sonetos de Shakespeare constituyen una de las cumbres de la poesía amorosa de todo tiempo o nación. Por ellos desfilan sentimientos que transitan entre la amistad y el deseo, junto con el afan de supervivencia en la hermosura, ya sea esta la de un cuerpo en otro repetido o mediante unos versos imperecederos. Riquisimos de matices, para reunir todos los ingredientes tampoco falta el misterio que rodea a sus destinatarios: el joven que inspira la mayor parte de ellos y la dama oscura que se interpone en la relacion entre este y el poeta. Antonio Rivero Taravillo, poeta y traductor de Pound, Tennyson y Keats, nos entrega aqui una version tan ajustada como musical, donde el endecasilabo blanco es espejo que no distorsiona el bellisimo original ingles. No es esta la primera traduccion de los Sonetos a nuestra lengua; si, quiza, la mas fielmente hermosa de todas ellas.Publicados en 1609, los Sonetos de Shakespeare constituyen una de las cumbres de la poesía amorosa de todo tiempo o nación. Por ellos desfilan sentimientos que transitan entre la amistad y el deseo, junto con el afan de supervivencia en la hermosura, ya sea esta la de un cuerpo en otro repetido o mediante unos versos imperecederos. Riquisimos de matices, para reunir todos los ingredientes tampoco falta el misterio que rodea ...
A vivacious woman and a high-spirited man both claim that they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each harbours secret feelings for the other, they begin to question whether their witty banter and sharp-tongued repartee conceals something deeper.
A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.
From the acclaimed Naxos series of Shakespeare recordings. A full professional cast, headed by Sir Ian McKellen as Prospero and Emilia Fox as Miranda, records the complete, unabridged New Cambridge Shakespeare text of The Tempest, with sound effects and accompanying music. The set of two CDs is accompanied by notes and a synopsis of the play.
"The Weils's New Cambridge ^1 Henry IV takes a skillful route...making judicious choices at every level, from its nicely gauged textual commentary to its full account of the play's scholarly, critical, and theatrical histories. Clearly written with nonspecialists in mind, it should prove especially exciting for that audience, but there is much for the specialist reader as well." Shakespeare Quarterly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Prince Hal, the son of King Henry IV spends his time in idle pleasure with dissolute friends, among them the roguish Sir John Falstaff: But when the kingdom is threatened by rebellious forces, the prince must abandon his reckless ways. Taking arms against a heroic enemy, he begins a great and compelling transformation - from irresponsible reprobate to noble ruler of men. This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Henry IV, Part One, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
