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Scritta da William Shakespeare tra il 1594 e il 1596 quest’opera universale non ha mai smesso di affascinare i lettori di tutto il mondo e di tutte le età. Rivive in questa raffinata e originale edizione, in cui i protagonisti escono, letteralmente, dalle pagine e prendono vita nelle scenografie di un piccolo teatro di carta, dedicate alle sette scene principali della storia d’amore più tragica di tutti i tempi. Una preziosa opera di cartotecnica nata dall’ingegno di Daniele Catalli, che invita i lettori a perdersi tra le sue pagine. Il tutto racchiuso in un pratico ed elegante cofanetto.

He could mingle sublimity with pathos, bitterness with joy and peace and love Aldous Huxley\n\nIn one of Shakespeare's most perennially popular comedies a young woman, Hermia, flees ancient Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. Slapstick collides with courtly romance and confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced and ultimately restored.\n\nUsed and Recommended by the National Theatre\n\nGeneral Editor Stanley Wells\nEdited by Stanley Wells \nIntroduction by Helen Hackett

One of Shakespeare's late, fantastical plays, Cymbeline considers human love and art through the thrilling wonder of the Renaissance theatre. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an introduction by John Pitcher.\n\n'Fear no more the heat o' the sun,\nNor the furious winter's rages'\n\nThe King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. Having fled to Rome, the exiled husband makes a foolish wager with a villain he encounters there - gambling on the fidelity of his abandoned wife. Combining courtly menace and horror, comedy and melodrama,Cymbeline is a moving depiction of two young lovers driven apart by deceit and self-doubt.\n\nThis book contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to the play, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.

The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is arguably the best introduction to the playwright's genius as a writer of history plays. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited by Norman Saunders with an introduction by Michael Taylor.\n\n\n'My mouth shall be the parliament of Enland'\n\nHenry VI is tricked into marrying Margaret - lover of the Earl of Suffolk, who hopes to rule the kingdom through her influence. There is one great obstacle in Suffolk's path, however - the noble Lord Protector, whom he slyly orders to be murdered. Discovering this betrayal, Henry banishes Suffolk, but with his Lord Protector gone the unworldly young King must face his greatest challenge: impending civil war and the rising threat of the House of York.\n\nThis book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Henry VI, Part Two, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay by Rebecca Brown discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.\n\nWilliam Shakespeare (1564-1616) was born to John Shakespeare and Mary Arden some time in late April 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He wrote about 38 plays (the precise number is uncertain), many of which are regarded as the most exceptional works of drama ever produced, including Romeo and Juliet (1595), Henry V (1599), Hamlet (1601), Othello (1604), King Lear (1606) and Macbeth (1606), as well as a collection of 154 sonnets, which number among the most profound and influential love poetry in English.\n\n'We go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves'\n Jeanette Winterson

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design This edition of Romeo and Juliet is edited with an introduction by Peter Holland and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia. Waldia received a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators for the Pelican Shakespeare series. The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With stunning new covers, definitive texts, and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Nel dicembre 1727 viene rappresentato per la prima volta un dramma dal titolo \"Doppia falsità\", \"scritto originariamente da William Shakespeare\". È l'inizio di un intrigante mistero letterario, durato quasi trecento anni, sulla paternità dell'opera: si tratta di un falso dell'impresario Lewis Theobald o è l'indizio di un caso molto più complicato, che ha a che fare con il \"Don Chisciotte\" e con l'incendio del Globe Theatre del 1599? La trama stessa è, del resto, basata su un inganno, anzi sul doppio inganno che coinvolge due coppie di amanti: tradimenti, colpi di scena e rivelazioni investono i protagonisti del fascino che sempre suscita l'ambiguità di vero e falso. Per la prima volta Brean Hammond, attraverso un decennale lavoro filologico, svela il mistero sulla paternità dell'opera, con un'edizione accolta nella prestigiosa collana \"Arden Shakespeare\" e ora finalmente disponibile per il lettore italiano.

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Antony and Cleopatra is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.\nThis title is suitable for all exam boards and for the most recent AS/A level specifications.

In Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare uses the most notorious murder in classical history to tell a tragic tale of friendship, ambition and betrayal. \n\nPart of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition is illustrated throughout by Sir John Gilbert, and includes an introduction by Ned Halley.\n\nAs the greatest figures of the Roman Republic are swept along on the tide of a terrifying conspiracy, a touchingly human story is revealed in some of the most beautiful poetry ever written.

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi- comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeare's plays.\n\nThough the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realist psychology and a powerful commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships and deep, longlasting friendships. Stephen Orgel's edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre and the family, traces the changing critical and theatrical attitudes towards it, and places its psychological and dramatic conflicts within the Jacobean cultural and political context. The commentary pays special attention to the play's linguistic complexity, and the edition also includes a complete reprint of Shakespeare's source, Pandosto, by Robert Greene. \nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale, the central themes of this humourous and moving play are the claims of love and friendship. The introduction to this new edition offers an illuminating account of Shakespeare's collaboration with his younger colleague John Fletcher, and there are full and helpful notes on unfamiliar words, stage business, allusions, and the play's often complex language.\n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

With the publication of Woudhuysens Arden 3 edition, the magisterial study of the play that will energise a new generation of readers and directors has now arrived.'Eric Rasmussen, University of Nevada at Reno, Shakespeare Survey

Definiti la chiave con la quale Shakespeare era in grado di aprire qualsiasi cuore, i Sonetti presentano un lato inedito e affascinante del grande drammaturgo. Studiate a lungo dai critici alla ricerca di indizi sulla vita privata di un autore per molti versi ancora misterioso, queste poesie introducono anche personaggi straordinari come la fatale \"Dark Lady\" o l'odiato poeta rivale.

Nella seconda parte della trilogia dell' Enrico VI (1590-92) la nazione inglese precipita definitivamente nel caos. Persa la Francia, non resta alla nobiltà che spartirsi il suolo della madrepatria. Il dramma si apre con il fastoso matrimonio tra il giovane sovrano e Margherita d'Angiò (1445), e si chiude, dieci anni dopo, con la débacle delle forze reali di fronte agli yorkisti nella prima battaglia di Saint Albans. Dopo la morte violenta del saggio duca di Gloucester, zio di Enrico VI, figura paterna che aveva cercato di pilotare la rotta dello stato in difesa del debole sovrano, Riccardo di York esce finalmente allo scoperto, reclamando la corona per sé e per i figli. Divampa la lotta fratricida tra gli York e i Lancaster, entrambi discendenti dal ceppo dei Plantageneti, passata alla storia come Guerra delle due Rose: una guerra dove non esistono vincitori definitivi, dove tradimenti e voltafaccia stravolgono le alleanze, dove i campi di battaglia assomigliano a mattatoi, una festa di sangue in cui a regnare sovrana è la violenza più cieca e forsennata. Introduzione di Nemi D'Agostino.

This collection contains more than 80% of the sonnets, including all the famous ones. In addition, there are substantial extracts from the longer narrative poems Shakespeare wrote in his youth, songs from the plays, and celebrated soliloquies from HAMLET, ROMEO AND JULIET, KING LEAR, HENRY V, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, etc. Together, these verses give a comprehensive view of shakespeare the poet by assembling all the well-known passages together with less familiar but equally powerful extracts.

This prize-winning work provides a facsimile of the 1609 Quarto printed in parallel with a conservatively edited, modernized text, as well as commentary that ranges from brief glosses to substantial critical essays. Stephen Booth's notes help a modern reader toward the kind of understanding that Renaissance readers brought to the works.

The authoritative edition of All's Well That Ends Well from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.\n\nShakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well is the story of its heroine, Helen, more so than the story of Bertram, for whose love she yearns. Helen wins Bertram as her husband despite his lack of interest and higher social standing, but she finds little happiness in the victory as he shuns, deserts, and attempts to betray her.\n \nThe play suggests some sympathy for Bertram. As a ward to the French king, he must remain at court while his friends go off to war and glory. When Helen cures the King, he makes Bertram available to her. To exert any control over his life, Bertram goes to war in Italy.\n \nHelen then takes the initiative in furthering their marriage, undertaking an arduous journey and a daring trick. Few today, however, see a fairy-tale ending.\n \nThis edition includes:\n -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play\n -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play\n -Scene-by-scene plot summaries\n -A key to the play's famous lines and phrases\n -An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language\n -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play\n -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books\n -An annotated guide to further reading\n \nEssay by David McCandless\n \nThe Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

This volume gives readers the First Quarto text of 1603 and the Folio Text of 1623, modernised and edited to the usual Arden standard. As a companion to the Second Quarto volume, it will be of particular interest to scholars and students of textual history, or to anyone studying Hamlet at an advanced level. Both plays are edited and annotated and the introduction contains the fullest available stage history of the First Quarto text.

Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love.\n\nSome appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery - why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? - each one speaks to us from across the centuries of love, hate and the intensity of being alive.\n\nINTRODUCED BY ANDREW McMILLAN\n\n'This is a crazy, all-consuming, feverish and sweaty love; love, in all its uncut, full-strength intensity; an adolescent love' Don Paterson, Guardian

Con questo quarto volume si conclude la monumentale edizione (con nuove introduzioni e traduzioni, accompagnate da ricchi commenti) di “Tutte le opere” di William Shakespeare. Nell'ultimo tomo figurano otto drammi (fra i quali “Il mercante di Venezia”, “Misura per misura”, “Tutto è bene ciò che finisce bene”, “Il racconto d'inverno”, “La tempesta”), i “Sonetti” (una sequenza di centocinquantaquattro componimenti), cinque poemi e una serie di poesie d'occasione che hanno reso celebre l'autore in tutti i campi dell’espressione teatrale e letteraria. Un eloquente esempio della sua genialità e della sua vulcanica inventiva, capace di mettere in crisi le definizioni imposte dalla critica internazionale ai generi letterari. Nell'Inghilterra fra Cinque e Seicento la vena teatrale e la vena poetica erano divise da pratiche e finalità differenti, in quanto prevalentemente rivolte ad ambienti diversi della società. Ecco perché si può parlare, come proponiamo in questo volume, di tragicommedie o di drammi romanzeschi, di sonetti o di poemi: ma in ciascuna di queste opere è sempre e solo il genio di Shakespeare a uniformare una materia unica e inimitabile, dotata di una sua intima coerenza, in grado di mescolare, con originalità e creatività, poesia e prosa, dramma e lirica, tragedia e commedia, epica e favola popolare.

This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence. Forker places the play in its political context, discussing its relation to competing theories of monarchy, looking at how it faced censorship because of possible comparisons between Richard II and Elizabeth I, and how Bolingbroke's rebellion could be compared to the Essex rising of the time. This edition also reconsiders Shakespeare's use of sources, asking why he chose to emphasise one approach over another. Forker also looks at the play's rich afterlife, and the many interpretations that actors and directors have taken. Finally, the edition looks closely at the aesthetic relationship between language, character, structure and political import.

Definiti la chiave con la quale Shakespeare era in grado di aprire qualsiasi cuore, i Sonetti presentano un lato inedito e affascinante del grande drammaturgo. Studiate a lungo dai critici alla ricerca di indizi sulla vita privata di un autore per molti versi ancora misterioso, queste poesie introducono anche personaggi straordinari come la fatale dark lady o l'odiato poeta rivale.I Sonetti di Shakespeare costituiscono uno dei libri di poesia piú filologicamente dibattuti, piú strutturalmente ambigui e, in definitiva, piú affascinanti. La triangolazione fra il poeta e i due interlocutori principali, il fair youth e la dark lady, produce un percorso morale e di senso niente affatto rettilineo se non addirittura misterioso. Lucia Folena ci offre diverse chiavi per \r\ninterpretare questo percorso in modo consapevole e innovativo. E ci offre altresí una nuova traduzione in endecasillabi che riesce miracolosamente a conservare sia il pensiero sia gli eleganti artifici retorici che stanno dentro i pentametri giambici shakespeariani. Alcune storiche ottime traduzioni utilizzano versi lunghi di misura variabile, ma la forza dei versi di Shakespeare sta anche nella loro regolarità. Riuscire a condensare nell'endecasillabo il senso, la forma e la bellezza della poesia di Shakespeare è stata una scommessa molto impegnativa. Crediamo sia una scommessa vinta.Come un attore impreparato in scena che per paura sbagli le battute, o un animale carico di furia a cui la troppa forza fiacchi il cuore, cosí io, malfidente, non ho voce per il cerimoniale dell'amore; sembra stroncarmi la sua intensità, e sono sopraffatto dal suo peso. Siano dunque i miei scritti l'eloquenza e i muti messaggeri del mio cuore: chiedono amore e attendon ricompensa piú grande che la lingua piú verbosa. Leggi tu i segni del silente amore: è intelletto d'amore udir con gli occhi.La celebrazione iniziale della perfezione del destinatario, piú attraente e temperato di un giorno d'estate – celebrazione che sembra inizialmente essere tutta immersa nel presente (vv. 1-3, 5-6) – già al v. 4 si apre verso un domani nel quale nemmeno gli attuali difetti della bella stagione esisteranno piú, perché essa stessa sarà terminata, e, come sottolineano i vv. 7-8, sometime, cioè in un momento imprecisato ma ineluttabile, la corsa del tempo separerà dall'idea platonica del Bello le cose del mondo fisico che da quell'idea erano originariamente discese. A questo punto la perfezione del fair youth si rivela fondata, molto piú che sull'oggi, sulla futura stabilità della sua immagine attuale, la cui inalterabilità dipenderà esclusivamente dalla forza suggestiva dei «versi eterni» che l'avranno costruita. Cosí, come per un gioco di prestigio, la celebrazione iniziale del giovane si trasforma in autocelebrazione, ed è proprio un tale rovesciamento a rendere possibile la \"storia\" che segue, propiziando la genesi e lo sviluppo di un rapporto paritario di amicizia e amore tra due personaggi tanto lontani fra loro....

La travagliata storia d’amore tra Romeo Montecchi e Giulietta Capuleti, figli di due famiglie in lotta tra loro, diventa un originale e dinamico racconto a fumetti. Un’altalena di passione, odio e rimpianto ha reso indimenticabili le vicende degli innamorati più famosi e sfortunati della letteratura.

This is William Shakespeare's full and unabridged play in comic book form. This full colour graphic novel presents \"The Scottish Play\" just as Shakespeare intended: in its original and unabridged format. Ideal for purists, students and readers who will appreciate the unaltered text. \"Macbeth\" is probably the most dramatic of Shakespeare's tragedies and this version will give you a brand new and totally fulfilling view of the sheer genius of Shakespeare's story telling. Witchcraft, superstition, murder - it's all here! Featuring stunning artwork, and full of action, atmosphere and intrigue from start to finish; this new treatment of The Bard's wonderful tragedy will have you on the edge of your seat. It's 11th century Scotland. Macbeth, Thane of Glamis, is one of King Duncan's greatest war captains. Upon returning from a battle with the rebellious Thane of Cawdor, Macbeth and Banquo encounter three witches, who prophecy that Macbeth will become Thane of Cawdor and then King. They also prophecy that Banquo will become the father of kings. When Lady Macbeth hears this, she is determined to push her husband to take fate into his own hands and make himself king by murdering Duncan.\nMacbeth is reluctant to harm Duncan. But, when the King makes arrangements to visit Macbeth's castle, the opportunity presents itself. Pressed on by his wife, Macbeth kills Duncan and blames the King's drunken attendants, who he also kills. However, Macbeth is racked with guilt and begins to see apparitions. When the body is discovered, Malcolm and Donalbain, the King's sons, are suspicious of Macbeth and flee for their lives. To everyone else, it looks as if the sons have been the chief conspirators and Macbeth is crowned King of Scotland. Banquo's suspicions grow, based on his encounter with the witches and Macbeth is wary of the second prophecy concerning Banquoa's offspring. Macbeth hires assassins to kill Banquo and his son, Fleance. Banquo is murdered that night, but Fleance escapes. The bloody ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth at a feast, tormenting his already guilty conscience. In addition, Macduff, once a comrade of Macbeth, has fled after the King's sons to England, as he also suspects Macbeth. In revenge, Macbeth butchers Macduff's entire household.\nMacduff and the King's sons raise an army in England and march against Macbeth, who is given another prophecy by the witches, as he prepares for the assault. They tell him his throne is safe until Birnam Wood comes to Dunsinane and he will not die by the hand of any man born of a woman. Macbeth now feels invincible. Lady Macbeth, on the other hand, has been slowly driven mad by her dreams, in the wake of Duncan's murder. She sleepwalks and eventually kills herself. Macbeth learns that many of his lords are deserting and joining Malcolm's army, which approaches Dunsinane under cover of boughs, which they've cut from the trees of Birnam Wood. Macbeth and Macduff eventually meet on the bloody battlefield. Macbeth...

In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly descriptive Rape of Lucrece confirmed his fame as 'Sweet Master Shakespeare', Elizabethan England's most brilliant non-dramatic poet. Shorter poems in this volume testify further to Shakespeare's versatility and to his poetic fame. Some, like the much-debated 'Phoenix and Turtle', pose problems of meaning; others raise questions about authorship and authenticity. Detailed annotation and a full Introduction seek to resolve such difficulties while also locating Shakespeare's poems in their literary context, which includes his own career as a playwright.

L'improvviso e casuale accendersi di una passione incontrollabile tra i due protagonisti apre la storia. Romeo va a una festa per vedere Rosalina, e non per cercare Giulietta, ma quando i due si incontrano, si perdono l'uno nell'altro, entrambi ignari di avere di fronte un nemico. Tragedia dell'amor giovane, \"Romeo e Giulietta\" è considerata la storia d'amore per eccellenza proprio perché è molto di più. Un grande e ricco dramma di passioni umane, qualunque esse siano: oltre a celebrare un sentimento divorante e assoluto, Shakespeare ci racconta anche, e soprattutto, le scelte estreme a cui conducono odio, rivalità, rancore e vendetta. L'edizione viene presentata con testo a fronte nella nuova traduzione e con il puntuale corredo di note a cura di Silvia Bigliazzi.

The Oxford Shakespeare\nGeneral Editor: Stanley Wells\nThe Oxford Shakespeare offer authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers\n\n- a new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from the early texts\n- wide-ranging introduction discusses the play's historical contexts, political significance, characters, sources, and language\n- detailed stage history designed to meet the needs of students and theatre professionals\n- on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, allusions, staging, and much else\n- illustrated with production photographs, historical portraits, textual facsimiles, and map\n- full index to introduction and commentary\n- durable sewn binding for lasting use\n\n'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare' Times Literary Supplement \n\nABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Ma chiunque io sia,né io, né nessun altro che sia solo un uomo,in nulla troverà soddisfazione finché non si sentirà pagodi essere un nulla.\"Riccardo II\"\r\n\r\nQuesto terzo volume di \"Tutte le opere\" di William Shakespeare raccoglie i drammi che mettono in scena la storia dell'Inghilterra medievale. Si tratta di rappresentazioni che incontrarono - insieme ad alcune commedie - un immediato successo: il pubblico che assiepava i teatri era avido di informazioni e leggende sui primi passi della nazione e sulle lotte dinastiche che l'avevano funestata in passato. E così il grande drammaturgo rielabora per la prima volta in forma moderna eventi raccontati in ponderosi tomi di disordinate \"Cronache\" o già messi acerbamente in scena da contemporanei: un \"coacervo informe e grezzo\" elaborato e trasformato in opere teatrali che si sono imposte all'attenzione degli spettatori londinesi e poi dell'intera cultura occidentale. Frutto di un'inventiva linguistica e stilistica illimitata, questi testi furono capaci di conquistare le platee con lo spettacolo del potere e delle sue malefatte, e con il divertimento che riesce comunque a offrire una via di fuga al di là del male. Si pensi all'arcicattivo Riccardo III che si presenta, in un momento di metateatrale onestà, \"come messer Malvagio, che dà un doppio significato a ogni parola\"; o alla grande invenzione del ribaldo crapulone Falstaff che si interroga sul valore dell'onore, concludendo che \"non sa che farsene\". Sono esempi eloquenti di quanto inesauribili siano i registri su cui Shakespeare riesce a giocare. Tutti i drammi storici shakespeariani sono ora disponibili in questa edizione bilingue che - oltre a nuove introduzioni, traduzioni e note - segnala anche le novità presenti nella recente edizione della Oxford University Press (2016-2017).

Romeo and Juliet is the world's most famous drama of tragic young love. Defying the feud which divides their families, Romeo and Juliet enjoy the fleeting rapture of courtship, marriage and sexual fulfilment; but a combination of old animosities and new coincidences brings them to suicidal deaths.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis play offers a rich mixture of romantic lyricism, bawdy comedy, intimate harmony and sudden violence. Long successful in the theatre, it has also generated numerous operas, ballets and films; and these have helped to make Romeo and Juliet perennially topical.

Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. \n\nClaire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller right up to date, analysing recent developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy.

Riccardo II è il dramma della caduta di un re: un re che non domina ma subisce gli eventi, inetto al governo di un grande regno, del tutto privo di senso politico e abilità strategica; un monarca sordo alle istanze dei saggi consiglieri e succube di adulatori corrotti; un personaggio volubile, fantasioso, emotivo, i cui talenti sono quelli di un artista mancato; un uomo lacerato da un insanabile dissidio fra la propria realtà di individuo e il ruolo in cui la sorte l'ha imprigionato: quello di re per diritto divino. Nello scontro col suo antagonista, Henry Bolingbroke, l'«uomo forte», una sorta di principe machiavellico, duro, realista e senza illusioni, capace di cogliere al volo la fortuna e di farsela alleata, Riccardo è destinato a soccombere. La ragion di stato esige l'abdicazione e la morte del sovrano: l'unto del Signore si spoglia di ogni attributo regale, rinuncia alla sacralità della corona e, novello Cristo, affronta in solitudine il suo calvario.

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