William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's comedy about the fairy king and queen, Oberon and Titania, and the mischievous Puck, as they create confusion amongst the humans in the forest.

Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger readers. This edition also includes theme discussions and study questions, which can be used both in the classroom or at home to further engage the reader in the story.

The Classics Illustrated comic book series began life in 1941 with its first issue, Alexandre Dumas "The Three Musketeers," and has since included over 200 classic tales released around the world. This new edition is specifically tailored to engage and educate young readers with some of the greatest works ever written, while still thrilling older readers who have loving memories of this series of old. Each book contains dedicated theme discussions and study questions to further develop the reader s understanding and enjoyment of the work at hand."

The supernatural and the mundane, the illusory and the substantial, are all shimmeringly blended. Love is treated as tragic, poignant, absurd and farcical. 'Lord, what fools these mortals be!', jeers Robin Goodfellow; but the joke may be on him and on his master Oberon when Bottom the weaver, his head transformed into that of an ass, is embraced by the voluptuously amorous Titania.

Ce volume rassemble trois comédies badines et féroces : multipliant personnages, lieux et intrigues, elles peignent une grande fresque turbulente et frivole où s'enchevêtrent les thèmes de l'amour et de la vertu. La légèreté apparente du bal des masques, qu'il ait lieu à Venise, à Messine ou au coeur d'une forêt des Ardennes, vacille ici et là sous l'effet d'un souffle tragique ; au coeur de la comédie, Shakespeare déploie une réflexion sur les pouvoirs de la fiction : "Le monde entier est un théâtre, et tous, hommes et femmes, n'en sont que les acteurs. Tous ont leurs entrées et leurs sorties, et chacun y joue successivement les différents rôles d'un drame en sept âges" (Comme il vous plaira, II, 7).

Much Ado About Nothing has long been celebrated as one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. The central relationship, between Benedick and Beatrice, is wittily combative until love prevails. Broader comedy is provided by Dogberry, Verges and the watchmen.

This third edition of Othello offers a completely new introduction by Christina Luckyj, providing readers with a nuanced understanding of early modern theatre and culture, and demonstrating how careful attention to Shakespeare's language, staging and dramaturgy can open up fresh interpretations of the play. Tracing critical and performance trends up to the present day, Luckyj shows how the drama taps into contemporary cultural paradoxes surrounding blackness, marriage, and politics to create a powerful double perspective, illuminating the creative and destructive power of stories and of human love itself. Supplemented by an updated reading list and extensive illustrations, this edition also features revised commentary notes, offering the very best in contemporary criticism of this great tragedy.

This is an intense drama of love, deception, jealousy and destruction. Desdemona's love for Othello, the Moor, transcends racial prejudice; but the envious Iago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism, sexism, contested identities, and the savagery lurking within civilisation, Othello is arguably the most topical and accessible tragedy from Shakespeare's major phase as a dramatist.

Voici le premier dictionnaire de citations de Shakespeare en France. Shakespeare, l'auteur de près de quarante pièces de théâtre et de poèmes qui comptent parmi les chefs-d'oeuvre de la littérature mondiale. Shakespeare, le génie de la pensée originale. De l'« amour » à la « mort », du « pouvoir » à l'« argent » sans oublier « salade », toutes les grandes et les moins grandes questions de la vie humaine vues par ce génie éternel. On trouvera les sentences fameuses, et d'autres inattendues, ainsi que ses grands personnages, Hamlet, le roi Lear, Macbeth, Roméo, Juliette et celle, on l'oublie souvent, qu'il aima avant elle, Rosaline. N'est-ce pas Shakespeare qui affirme par la bouche du devin d'Antoine et Cléopâtre : « Dans les secrets de la nature, je sais lire un peu » ? Ce sont quelques-uns de ces secrets que ce livre nous confie.

Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending. Romeo and Juliet is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the music of the poetry make believable the otherwise commonplace afflictions of blighted love.