Tomando como base una antigua leyenda acerca de la rivalidad entre dos familias, Capuletos y Montescos, de la Italia medieval, William Shakespeare (1564-1616) encarnó en la tragedia de Romeo y Julieta el símbolo universal por excelencia del amor...
The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare―an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest...
The Phoenix and Turtle is Shakespeare's allegorical poem on the mystical nature of love.
The poem tells of the funeral of two lovers the phoenix, a mythological bird associated with immortality, and the turtledove (usually called...
Sonnets are fourteen-line lyric poems, traditionally written in iambic pentameter - that is, in lines ten syllables long, with accents falling on every second syllable, as in: ‘Shall I compare thee to a summerʼs day?’. Sonnets originated in...