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Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

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"Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare is a timeless and enchanting comedy that invites you into a world of mistaken identities, love, and laughter. Set in the colorful and lively backdrop of Illyria, this play is a masterpiece of Shakespearean wit and humor.The story revolves around Viola, who is shipwrecked and finds herself stranded in a foreign land. To survive, she disguises herself as a young man named Cesario and becomes entangled in the lives of the Duke Orsino, who employs her as a messenger of love, and the beautiful Countess Olivia, who unwittingly falls in love with her.This delightful tale of love triangles and hidden desires is a rollercoaster of emotions, from heartwarming moments to hilarious mishaps. The comic characters, such as Sir Toby Belch and Maria, add a touch of mischievousness to the plot, while the pompous Malvolio provides a humorous contrast.Shakespeare's mastery of language is on full display in "Twelfth Night." The play features some of his most famous lines and witty wordplay. The themes of love, disguise, and the absurdity of human behavior are explored in a way that remains relevant and relatable even today."Twelfth Night" is a play that continues to captivate audiences with its enduring charm and humor. It's a celebration of the human spirit's capacity for love and the folly that often accompanies it. Whether you're a seasoned theatergoer or a newcomer to Shakespeare's works, this play promises an unforgettable journey into the realm of romance and laughter.
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Affiche du document Roméo et Juliette

Roméo et Juliette

William Shakespeare

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A Vérone, Roméo Montaigu et Juliette Capulet tombent éperdument amoureux malgré la haine ancestrale qui oppose leurs deux familles. Dans cette tragédie puisant dans des traditions antiques, les jeunes amants aux « étoiles contraires » avancent inéluctablement vers un destin funeste. Attestant du génie poétique précoce du dramaturge élisabéthain, l’œuvre de jeunesse qu’est Roméo et Juliette est encore l’une des pièces les plus jouées de Shakespeare et continue d’émouvoir les publics contemporains par son traitement magistral de thèmes intemporels : le conflit entre l’individu et la communauté, l’amour impossible et le diptyque antithétique d’Eros et Thanatos.Référence incontournable et universelle, Roméo et Juliette est à l’origine de multiples adaptations musicales, cinématographiques et littéraires. La version intégrale traduite par François-Victor Hugo la restitue dans toute son authenticité et sa puissance virtuose.
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Hamlet

William Shakespeare

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Revenu au royaume du Danemark pour assister aux funérailles de son père, Hamlet découvre avec horreur que sa mère s’est remariée à son oncle Claudius, qui s’est aussitôt attribué la couronne vouée à l’héritier du défunt. Ecrite entre 1599 et 1601, la pièce joue avec les codes du genre populaire en Angleterre élisabéthaine qu’est la tragédie de vengeance. Davantage homme de verbe et de pensée qu’homme d’action, le héros éponyme est torturé par son devoir de rendre justice, ainsi que par des doutes philosophiques vertigineux qui donnent lieu aux tirades les plus puissantes de la pièce : peut-on vraiment croire ce que nous rapportent nos sens? Peut-on prévoir les conséquences de nos actes? Notre finitude rend-elle l’existence absurde?Tragédie de la condition humaine et référence incontournable, Hamlet est considéré comme l’une des œuvres les plus importantes de la littérature et a fait l’objet d’innombrables citations, adaptations et représentations dans le monde. La superbe traduction du second quarto (1604), réalisée par François-Victor Hugo, en restitue toute la force lyrique.
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Affiche du document Roméo et Juliette

Roméo et Juliette Romeo and Juliet

De Franco Zeffirelli

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A Vérone, les Capulet et les Montaigu se livrent une lutte acharnée. Dans un bal masqué, Roméo Montaigu rencontre Juliette Capulet, et ils tombent amoureux l'un de l'autre, au mépris de la haine de leurs familles. Le lendemain, ils se marient en grand secret dans la chapelle du Frère Laurence...
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Affiche du document The Classic of British literature. Illustrated : The Canterbury Tales, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Daughter of Time

The Classic of British literature. Illustrated : The Canterbury Tales, Pride and Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre, Heart of Darkness, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Daughter of Time

Josephine Tey

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British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Contents: Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress William Shakespeare. Sonnets Frances Bacon. The New Atlantis John Milton. Paradise Lost Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities Walter Scott. Ivanhoe Mary W. Shelley. Frankenstein Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre Thomas Hardy. Tess of the d’Urbervilles Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray H. G. Wells. Time Machine Virginia Woolf. The Voyage Out George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four Josephine Tey. The Daughter of Time
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Affiche du document 100+ Best-Loved Poems : Selections from Shakespeare, Poe, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Blake, Burns, Byron, Wordsworth, Yeats, Orwell and More

100+ Best-Loved Poems : Selections from Shakespeare, Poe, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Blake, Burns, Byron, Wordsworth, Yeats, Orwell and More

George Orwell

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Over 100 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more. Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits. This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts. Contents: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold The Lamb by William Blake The Sick Rose by William Blake The Tyger by William Blake London by William Blake My Last Duchess by Robert Browning Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough by Robert Burns She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon Byron The Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon Byron So We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon Byron Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” by Emily Dickinson “This Is My Letter to the World” by Emily Dickinson “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” by Emily Dickinson “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson Jabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson The Good Morrow by John Donne Holy Sonnet X by John Donne Holy Sonnet XIV by John Donne Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument by Ralph Waldo Emerson The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas Gray The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy Love Bade Me Welcome by George Herbert To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert Herrick Upon Julia's Clothes by Robert Herrick The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins To An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward Housman Abou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh Hunt Jenny Kissed Me by James Henry Leigh Hunt To Celia by Ben Jonson On My First Son by Ben Jonson On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John Keats Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John Keats Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling Recessional by Rudyard Kipling If - by Rudyard Kipling The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children’s Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard Lovelace The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell Lucifer in Starlight by George Meredith First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay Sonnet: 19. On His Blindness by John Milton Sonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife by John Milton “Adieu, Farewell Earth’s Bliss” by Thomas Nashe Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington Robinson A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti Chicago by Carl Sandburg Fog by Carl Sandburg Sonnet XVIII by William Shakespeare Sonnet LXXIII by William Shakespeare Sonnet XCIV by William Shakespeare Sonnet CXVI by William Shakespeare Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson “Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?” by John Suckling The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Tennyson Crossing the Bar by Alfred Tennyson The Retreat by Henry Vaughan Song by Edmund Waller I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman Barbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf Whittier Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth “The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon” by William Wordsworth The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed by Thomas Wyatt The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats To My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet The Author To Her Book by Anne Bradstreet Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet Return to Tomhanick by Ann Eliza Bleecker An Evening Prospect by Ann Eliza Bleecker On Imagination by Phillis Wheatley An Hymn to the Evening by Phillis Wheatley Kitchener by George Orwell Romance by George Orwell Sometimes in the middle autumn days by George Orwell A Dressed Man by George Orwell A Little Poem by George Orwell The Pagan by George Orwell
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Affiche du document Romeo y Julieta

Romeo y Julieta

William Shakespeare

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Esta versión del audiolibro Romeo y Julieta (la versión completa) es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. El audio fue editado especialmente para su placer en los Estados Unidos. El estudio usa un proceso tecnológico y trabajo artesano para crear una experiencia exquisita. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Romeo y Julieta por William Shakespeare, narrada por Luis Eslava!
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King Lear

William Shakespeare

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The tragedy of King Lear receives an outstanding performance in an all-star cast led by Britain’s senior classical actor, Paul Scofield. He is joined by Alec McCowen as Gloucester, Kenneth Branagh as The Fool, Harriet Walter as Gonerill, Sara Kestelman as Regan and Emilia Fox as Cordelia. This is the ninth recording of Shakespeare plays undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press, and is directed by John Tydeman. It was released to mark the eightieth birthday of Paul Scofield in January 2002.
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King Richard III

William Shakespeare

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Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press.
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Othello

William Shakespeare

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241 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 3h1min.
This widely-studied play is one of the best sellers of the Shakespeare canon. This production is the sixth Shakespeare play in the series undertaken by Naxos AudioBooks in conjunction with Cambridge University Press.
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Affiche du document Romeo and Juliet

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet is the play which, in English literature at least, effectively invented the modern love story. Its charm and its power derive from the romantic setting (Verona, an Italian Renaissance city), the youthful innocence and ardour of the lovers, and (perhaps crucially) the excitement and drama created by the opposition which they have to contend with, an opposition which does not simply stem from the older generation but which is starkly present in the feud between their two families and which seems to be supported by the malignity of Fate. The wit, tenderness, dramatic variety and poetic beauty of this play continue to work their spell: it has proved a perennial favourite inspiring, even in our century, works such as the musical West Side Story.
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The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

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Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio’s own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father’s will, Portia’s many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia’s estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket. Antonio falls into bad fortune and finds he cannot repay Shylock: a dramatic trial ensues to decide his fate.
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The Tempest

William Shakespeare

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Sir Ian McKellen, fresh from his performance as Gandalf in Lord of the Rings is Prospero, and heads a strong cast in Shakespeare’s last great play. The wronged duke raises a tempest to shipwreck his old opponents on his island so that he can ensure justice is done. With Emilia Fox as Miranda, Scott Handy in the pivotal role of the sprite Ariel and Ben Owukwe as Caliban, this new production directed by John Tydeman, balances the magic and the earthiness with music playing a key role.
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Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

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Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s most political play. He examines whether political assassination can ever be justified, and the effect of this act of violence on its perpetrators. The high ideals of Brutus are tested to the full by the consequences of Julius Caesar’s murder; as is the self-interest of Cassius, whilst in the chaos that ensues, the opportunism of Mark Antony and Octavius is served rather than the cause of freedom. A classic study of power, Shakespeare shows the devastating effect political decisions can have on personal lives.
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Affiche du document Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson

Shakespeare's Comedy of A Midsummer-Night's Dream - Illustrated by W. Heath Robinson

William Shakespeare

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‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is a comedy play – one of Shakespeare’s lighter works, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1597. Both in text, and on stage, it is one of Shakespeare’s most popular narratives, and remains widely performed across the world. This book, originally published in 1912, contains twelve incredible colour illustrations and many beautiful and intricate black and white drawings by W. Heath Robinson. An English cartoonist and illustrator, best known for drawings of ridiculously complicated machines – for achieving deceptively simple objectives. Such was (and is) his fame, that the term ‘Heath Robinson’ entered the English language during the First World War, as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance. Pook Press publishes rare and vintage Golden Age illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.
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