Faust - a Tragedy In Two Parts & The Urfaust

Shaw , George Bernard

When professor of phonetics Henry Higgins wagers with Colonel Pickering that he could teach even a gutter-mouthed flower seller how to speak like a duchess, little does he expect that his social experiment will be riddled with difficulties, and that behind her cockney parlance the girl in question, Eliza Doolittle, has a mind, ideas and aspirations of her own. Things come to a ...

Chekhov, Anton

The most widely staged dramatist after Shakespeare, Chekhov left a deep mark both on the development of Russian literature and world theatre, with plays that were remarkable not just for their dialogue but their atmosphere and the tensions expressed between the lines.Collected in this volume are Chekhov's four most celebrated plays - The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters and ...

Shakespeare, William

The magnificent, timeless drama is the world's most famous tale of "star-crossed lovers." The young, unshakable love of Juliet and Romeo defies the feud that divides their families—the Capulets and Montagues—as their desperate need to be together, their secret meetings, and finally their concealed marriage drive them toward tragedy. A masterwork that has long captured the heart...

Shakespeare, William

Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic rhetoric has resounded down the ages, gaining eloquent expression in Laurence Olivier's renowned film. Henry himself, astute and charismatic, who led his ‘band of brothers' to victory in the Battle of Agincourt, could indeed seem to be ‘this star of England'. In recent decades the ...

Shakespeare, William

As You Like It is one of Shakespeare's finest romantic comedies, variously lyrical, melancholy, satiric, comic and absurd. Its boldly implausible plot generates a profusion of love-lorn men, a resourceful heroine in disguise, sexual ambiguity, sceptical philosophising, and finally a multiplicity of marriages. The ironic medley of pastoral artifice, romantic ardour and quizzical...

Shakespeare, William

In Henry IV, Part 1, the King is in a doubly ironic position. His rebellion against Richard II was successful, but now he himself is beset by rebels, led by the charismatic Harry Hotspur. The King's son, Prince Hal, seems to be more concerned with the pleasures of the tavern world and the company of the fat rogue, Falstaff, than with concerns of state. Eventually, however, Hal ...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

J. W. Goethe (1749-1832) es, no hace falta decirlo, una de las cumbres mayores de la cultura europea. Pero el hombre que fue tantas cosas diversas –político, crítico de arte, botánico, geólogo, filósofo (el menos metafísico, desde luego, de los filósofos), darwinista antes de Darwin... y todos los etcéteras con que se quiera alargar esta lista–, que tantas cosas...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

El juego de las nubes recopila algunas de las anotaciones que Johann Wolfgang Goethe realizó a modo de diario sobre sus observaciones de nubes. Como señala la traductora, Isabel Hernández, en su epílogo, «Es en 1815 cuando el autor alemán empezó a interesarse seriamente por el estudio de las mismas a raíz de la lectura de la obra que el inglés Luke Howard publicara en 1803 sob...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Lejos de su mundo cotidiano, desde el anonimato de un modesto apartamento de París al que se ha trasladado voluntariamente, el narrador -enfrentado a la crisis de la madurez- se propone reconstruir sus recuerdos. El suicidio de Ingrid, judía austriaca a l ...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Presented as a collection of confessional letters written by the eponymous protagonist, The Sorrows of Young Werther charts the emotional journey of a young man who, during a stay in a picturesque German village, falls in love with Lotte, a local woman engaged to another man. As he realizes that his passion is doomed to failure and constant pain, Werther contemplates taking the...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Casi doscientos cincuenta años después del nacimiento de su autor, "Fausto" sigue siendo un clásico, pues plantea el problema de los límites y el sentido de la acción humana, y lo hace bajo la parábola del pacto con el diablo. La obra mantiene su vigencia hoy porque, mediante los interrogantes propios de la condición humana, reaviva la inquietud en una época que pretende sentir...

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

La historia de Werther y su desmedido amor por Carlota es sin duda un bello exponente de la literatura del movimiento Sturm und Drang, precursor del Romanticismo. Sin embargo, supone a su vez una revuelta contra el imperio de la razón y una de las pr ...