Shakespeare category: 1671 books

King Edward III is increasingly thought to have been written in significant part by Shakespeare. This landmark new edition by textual expert and General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare, Richard Proudfoot, offers a full account of the play's text and the evidence of Shakespeare's hand at work in it....

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Orson Welles, Akira...

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is it that we read Shakespeare?" The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But do we? In the case of all the major editions of Shakespeare available in the market, the...

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatises the revenge Prince Hamlet is instructed to enact on his uncle Claudius. Claudius had murdered...

Descriptions du produit Présentation de l'éditeur La Comédie des méprises (The Comedy of Errors) est une pièce de théâtre écrite par William Shakespeare entre 1592 et 1594. C’est la pièce la plus courte de Shakespeare...

Se in altri drammi storici di Shakespeare gli eventi bellici fanno da sfondo all’azione scenica, in Enrico V sono la sostanza stessa del dramma, che costringe a domandarsi: esiste una guerra che possa dirsi giusta? Shakespeare mette in scena, accanto alla guerra “epica” delle sonanti disfide e...

2 opere di William Shakespeare Drammaturgo e poeta inglese, considerato come il più importante scrittore in lingua inglese (1564-1616) Questo libro elettronico presenta una collezione di 2 opere di William Shakespeare. Indice interattivo: La tempesta Macbeth

Opera giovanile, I due gentiluomini di Verona risale probabilmente agli anni dell’apprendistato artistico di Shakespeare; un apprendistato relativo, vista la consapevolezza di mezzi espressivi già dimostrata dal grande drammaturgo inglese. Rispetto alle opere coeve – La commedia degli errori, La...

Enrico VIII – ultimo dramma di Shakespeare – segna il ritorno ai grandi temi della storia nazionale affrontati nelle due grandi tetralogie che trattano le vicende del regno inglese, dal 1398 al 1521, e nel Re Giovanni, che risale agli esordi della sua attività di drammaturgo. Entrambi questi drammi,...

«Nessuno dei drammi di Shakespeare è più letto della prima e seconda parte di Henry IV», scriveva Samuel Johnson nel 1765. «Forse nessun autore ha mai dato in due drammi tanto piacere». La parte seconda di Enrico IV rappresenta solo idealmente la prosecuzione e la conclusione della precedente....

Shakespeare's Winter's Tale in English with line numbers and in French translation. "According to Wikipedia: "The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, originally published in the First Folio of 1623. Although it was grouped among the comedies, some modern editors have relabelled the play...

The Shakespeare tragedy, in English, with line numbers, and translated to French by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874), French historian, and statesman. Published in 1864. According to Wikipedia: "Titus Andronicus is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, and possibly George Peele, believed to...

Elizabethan play, sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often...

Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor ist eine Komödie von William Shakespeare von 1597. Die Komödie handelt von Sir John Falstaff, einem rauf- und trinksüchtigen Soldaten. In völliger Überschätzung seiner Wirkung auf Frauen verspricht er gleich mehreren Damen die Ehe, um sie anschließend um ihr...