William Shakespeare - Libros y biografía

The authoritative edition of Much Ado About Nothing from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. One of Shakespeare’s most frequently...

Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration,...

Pour sortir le jeune Roméo Montaigu de sa mélancolie, ses amis le convainquent d'assister incognito à une fête donnée par les Capulet. Alors qu'il pense y retrouver celle qu'il aime, il tombe éperdument...

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...

« Il faut retraduire tout Shakespeare, avec courage, orgueil et patience. Rendre à ce théâtre génial sa violence et sa rapidité, y mettre tout le savoir-faire possible, ne reculer devant aucun procédé....

Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning,...

" Les belles histoires d'amour ont toujours enflammé l'imagination des hommes. L'Antiquité nous a légué celle d'Orphée et Eurydice, où s'exprime le rêve éternel d'un attachement capable de vaincre la...

Edition enrichie (Postface)S’estimant proche de la mort, un roi décide de partager en trois son royaume afin d’en doter ses filles, Goneril, Régane et Cordélia. Lors d’une vaste cérémonie où se décident...

Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics...

Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,...

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with...

Shakespeare’s combination of violence, introspection, dark humour and rich language in Hamlet is intoxicating. It remains the world's most widely studied and performed play, and is a cornerstone of world...

Once it blooms, it changes everything. Love is uplifting, enlightening, transforming. In this timeless collection of more than 80 sonnets, William Shakespeare pays tribute to our most beautiful emotion....

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...

Shakespeare’s gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a favourite with Shakespearian audiences.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library;...

Shakespeare’s skillful manipulation of events and people makes Richard III a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil and the temptation of power.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of...

In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm between his three daughters according to the love they express for him. Part...

The Sonnets explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes: jealousy, betrayal, melancholy. They ache with unfulfilled longing, and, for many, they are the most complete and moving meditations on love...

Written at the end of the life of Elizabeth I, Henry V is an inspirational, gripping play that struck a chord in a time of uncertainty.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning,...

Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s...

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.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series...

In Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses the most notorious murder in classical history to tell a tragic tale of friendship, ambition and betrayal. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series...

An intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction, Othello is arguably Shakespeare's most topical and accessible tragedy.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound,...

La guerre entre les Montague et les Capulet met la ville de Vérone à feu et à sang. Alors que les deux familles se sont vouées une haine éternelle, Roméo Montague et Juliette Capulet tombent éperdument...

Trois sorcières ont prédit à Macbeth qu’il deviendrait roi d’Écosse. Pour que son destin se réalise, il assassine le souverain en place ; mais parce qu’il a tué, il devra tuer encore et les morts ne le...

Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio’s marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an apparently ideal woman. Petruchio’s wooing of Katherine,...

Edition enrichie (préface, note sur la traduction, notes, dossier, chronologie, bibliographie)Au retour du mariage de la princesse Claribel avec le roi de Tunis, le vaisseau du roi de Naples, Alonso,...

L'histoire de Ginévra, dans le cinquième chant de l'Arioste, a quelque rapport avec la fiction romanesque de cette pièce; plusieurs critiques, et entre autres Pope, ont cru que le Roland Furieux avait...

Parmi les tragédies de Shakspeare que l'opinion a placées au premier rang, Jules César est celle dont les commentateurs ont parlé le plus froidement. Le plus froid de tous, Johnson, se contente de dire:...

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with...