King Lear

Shakespeare, William

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. 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 withi...

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

William Shakespeare compuso para la eternidad 154 sonetos que hoy forman parte del legado más sublime de la literatura inglesa. En esta cuidada selección se recogen aquellos en los que el amor —en todas sus formas— brilla con una intensidad lírica pocas veces igualada. Cada palabra ha sido cincelada con maestría, dando forma a un sentimiento que, aún hoy, sigue latiendo en cada...

Shakespeare, William

Coriolano condensa de un modo extraordinario las características del Shakespeare universal.Coriolano, una de las obras más políticas de William Shakespeare, ha sugerido en el mundo contemporáneo interpretaciones antagónicas. Sin embargo, no es un teatro de ideas, sino de personajes y «caracteres». Es, quizá, la última tragedia de su autor y, como tal, refleja los rasgos más car...

Shakespeare, William

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. 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 withi...

Shakespeare, William

Es la última obra de Shakespeare y, para muchos, la culminación de todo su proceso creador. Pieza alegórica, utópica, realista, romántica, pastoril y mítica, se nos presenta como un cuento maravilloso que encierra algún enigma o significado huidizo. Su composición parece inspirada en un célebre naufragio ocurrido en 1609 cerca de las Bermudas. El pasaje, que se creía muerto, se...

Shakespeare, William

Una obra imprescindible de Shakespeare sobre la ambición, el poder y la traición en el marco fascinante de la antigua Roma. De regreso a Roma tras su exitosa campaña en España, Julio César se hace nombrar cónsul y dictador perpetuo. Es entonces cuando, en defensa de la República, Casio pone en marcha una conspiración para asesinarlo con ayuda del noble Bruto. Sin embargo, M...

Shakespeare, William

Romeo y Julieta es una historia sobre la imposibilidad del amor, pero también una historia sobre la posibilidad del amor a pesar de los cons- tructos sociales. Esta edición de la clásica tragedia de dos adolescentes enamorados, cuyas familias están enfrentadas, propone una relectura del texto, en un momento como el actual, en el que está más vigente que nunca el replanteo y la ...

Shakespeare, William

Antony and Cleopatra is one of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies: a spectacular, widely-ranging drama of love and war, passion and politics. Antony is divided between the responsibilities of imperial power and the intensities of his sexual relationship with Cleopatra. She, variously generous and ruthless, loving and jealous, petulant and majestic, emerges as Shakespeare's most c...

Shakespeare, William

Othello has long been recognised as one of the most powerful of Shakespeare's tragedies. 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 withi...