William Shakespeare. - Libros y biografía

Exam board: Edexcel; Cambridge; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1; IGCSE; CSEC English BFirst teaching: September 2015; September 2019; First exams: June 2017; June 2021 Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel,...

Exam board: Edexcel; Cambridge; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1; IGCSE; CSEC English BFirst teaching: September 2015; September 2019; First exams: June 2017; June 2021 Exam board: AQA B, Edexcel,...

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel; CXCLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English Literature; CSEC® English BFirst teaching: September 2015First examination: June 2017 This edition of The Tempest is perfect...

Exam board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, EduqasLevel & Subject: GCSE 9-1 English LiteratureFirst teaching: September 2015; First examination: June 2017 Exam Board: Cambridge Assessment International...

E’ una delle tragedie shakesperiane più conosciute al mondo dove vienerappresentato, attraverso la finta follia personificata dal principe di Danimarca, iltema della vendetta. Il monologo di Amleto “Essere...

Il generale moro Otello comanda l’esercito veneziano contro i Turchi nell’isola diCipro. La perfidia di Cassio scatenerà la gelosia del moro verso l’innocente moglieDesdemona.

Questa, la storia di un contratto grondante di rabbia, avidità e vendetta. La penale da pagare vale più di tremila ducati; consta di una libbra di carne che Antonio, mercante di Venezia che ha improvvisamente...

Lear décide de renoncer au pouvoir et à sa puissance pour découvrir de nouvelles valeurs. Il partage son royaume entre deux de ses filles, qui le trahissent, disgraciant la troisième qui pourtant l'aime...

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,...

Othello, un «noble Maure» tout juste marié à Desdémone, s'apprête à affronter les Turcs, à la tête de la flotte vénitienne. Par chance, les navires turcs ont été détruits par une tempête, et Othello est...

Cette comédie suit l'évolution de deux couples: la romance entre Claudio et Hero, et la relation d'amour et de haine entre Benedick et Beatrice. Claudio et Benedick reviennent d'une campagne militaire...

Voici l'ultime tragédie de Shakespeare. Brecht la considérait comme « l'une des plus grandioses oeuvres » de son auteur. Cette pièce est inspirée de la vie de Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, militaire romain...

Macbeth, duc de Glamis, cousin et fidèle chef des armées de Duncan, roi d'Écosse, s'illustre par son courage et sa persévérance, menant son armée à la victoire, dans une bataille qui oppose la Norvège...

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,...

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself,...

COUNTESS. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. BERTRAM. And I in going, madam, weep o'er my father's death anew; but I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore...

How courtesy would seem to cover sin, When what is done is like an hypocrite, The which is good in nothing but in sight! If it be true that I interpret false, Then were it certain you were not so bad...

THE TRAGEDY OF HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK THE SONNETS THE TEMPEST. ROMEO AND JULIET A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM TWELFTH NIGHT "Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,...

(Ein freier Platz, Donner und Blitz) (Drei Hexen treten auf.) ERSTE HEXE Wann treffen wir drei uns das nachstemal Bei Regen, Donner, Wetterstrahl? ZWEITE HEXE Wenn der Wirrwarr ist zerronnen, Schlacht...

Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.

In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuffe 'tis made of, whereof it is borne, I am to learne: and such a Want-wit...

PHILO: Nay, but this dotage of our general's O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion...

EVEN as the sun with purple-colour'd face Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn, Rose-cheek'd Adonis tried him to the chase; Hunting he lov'd, but love he laugh'd to scorn; Sick-thoughted...

King. Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom To be contracted in one brow of woe; Yet so far hath...

Val. Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Were't not affection chains thy tender days To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, I rather would entreat thy company...

I. 1 Scene I. Windsor. Before Page's house. Enter Justice Shallow, Slender, and Sir Hugh Evans. Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I will make a Star-chamber matter of it: if he were twenty Sir John Falstaffs,...

The little Love-god lying once asleep, Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand, Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand The fairest votary took up...

Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true; That Mowbray hath received eight thousand nobles In name of lendings for your highness' soldiers, The which he hath detain'd for lewd employments, Like...

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