In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare creates a world of violence and generational conflict in which two young people fall in love and die because of that love. The story is rather extraordinary in that the normal problems faced by young lovers are here...
Les personnages de Roméo et Juliette apparaissent pour la première fois dans une nouvelle italienne de Luigi da Porta (1485-1529) qui reprenait un sujet déjà développé dans un récit du Novellino de...
Tragicomédie en cinq actes. Le duc de Milan, Prospero, après avoir été déchu et exilé par son frère, se retrouve avec sa fille Miranda sur une île déserte. Grâce à la magie...
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius,...
In this volume the Plays are arranged in the chronological order of their composition. Naturally, no claim to finality is made in a subject so beset with difficulties, but the sequence may be taken as fairly representing the general results of...