Tragedies: Volume 1 (Everyman's Library)

by William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world's great writers invariably inspires. In these four plays, Shakespeare engages the problem that is central to tragedy and crucial to any human community--the problem of violence and revenge--on an unprecedented scale. No other literary texts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge of ourselves as individuals and as a civilization. This authoritative edition of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in context.… (more)

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Obras completas. Tomo II. Comedias y poesía. Mucho ruido y pocas nueces. Sueño de una noche de verano. Las alegres casadas de Windsor. El mercader de Venecia. A buen fin no hay mal principio. Cimbelino. La comedia de las equivocaciones. A vuestro gusto. Trabajos de amor perdidos. Medida por medida. Pericles, príncipe de Tiro. La doma de la bravía. La tempestad. Troilo y Crecida. Noche de epifanía. Los dos hidalgos de Verona. El cuento de invierno. Venus y Adonis. La violación de Lucrecia. Querellas de una amante. El peregrino apasionado.

jjuancho | Aug 24, 2023 |

What can you say that hasn't been said about the works of one of the most brilliant minds who ever lived? All superlatives elude me. Only the Ancient Greek playwrights are his equals. All others pale in comparison. Unfortunately, so many are turned-off to Shakespeare because of their introduction to him in high school. What a pity. Shakespeare is to be watched! Reading him is a poor substitute. If you can readily understand the English language of his day, he is easy to read, but few are adept at this. (

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Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies were written in a remarkably short period of time, between 1598 and 1606. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear are each so singular an achievement that any rereading of them reinforces the awe and almost idolatrous worship that this most uncanny of the world's great writers invariably inspires. In these four plays, Shakespeare engages the problem that is central to tragedy and crucial to any human community--the problem of violence and revenge--on an unprecedented scale. No other literary texts have been more instrumental in deepening our knowledge of ourselves as individuals and as a civilization. This authoritative edition of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare's life and times, and a substantial introduction in which Tony Tanner discusses each play individually while setting each in context.

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VIDA Y OBRAS DE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
- Nacimiento y primeros años
- Londres
- Primeros esfuerzos Trabajos de amor perdidos/Los dos hidalgo de Verona/La comedia de las equivocaciones
- Romeo y Julieta
- Apología de Chettle Primera y Segunda parte de Enrique VI

- Influencia de Marlowe Ricardo III/Ricardo II/Venus y Adonis/La violación de Lucrecia
- Tito Andrónico
- El mercader de Venecia
- Sonetos
- La dama morena/Sonetos
- Confesiones autobiográficas
- Poetas rivales
- Fuerza dramática El rey Juan/A midsummernight's dream/A buen fin no hay mal principio/La doma de la bravía
- Fallecimiento de su hijo Enrique IV/Las alegres casadas de Windsor/Enrique V/Querellas de un amante/El peregrino apasionado/El fénix y la tórtola
- Trilogía romántica Mucho ruido y pocas nueces/A vuelto gusto/Noche de epifanía, o lo que queráis
- Julio César/Hamlet/Trollo y Cressida/Macbeth/El rey Lear/Timón de Athenas/Pericles/Antonio y Cleopatra/Coriolano
- Cimbelino/El cuento de invierno/La tempestad/Enrique VIII
- El globo/Historia de Cardenio
- Su muerte y final

TRAGEDIAS
- Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca
- La tragedia de Macbeth
- Otelo, el moro de Venecia
- La tragedia de Romeo y Julieta
- El rey Lear
- Antonio y Cleopatra
- Coriolano
- Julio César
- Timón de Atenas
- Tito Andrónico
- La primera parte del rey Enrique IV
- La segunda parte del rey Enrique IV
- La vida del rey Enrique V
- La primera parte del rey Enrique VI
- La segunda parte del rey Enrique VI
- La tercera parte del rey Enrique VI
- La famosa historia de la vida del rey Enrique VIII
- La vida y la muerte del rey Juan
- El rey Ricardo II
- La tragedia de Ricardo III

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