William Shakespeare

Full text. A powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (between the exotic Moor Othello and the Venetian lady Desdemona), with elopement, and with intense mutual devotion and that ends precipitately with jealous rage and violent deaths. William Shakespeare sets this story in the romantic world of the Mediterranean, moving the action from Venice to the island of Cyprus and giving it an even more exotic coloring with stories of Othello's African past. Shakespeare builds so many differences into his hero and heroine-differences of race, of age, of cultural background-that one should not, perhaps, be surprised that the marriage ends disastrously. But most people who see or read the play feel that the love that the play presents between Othello and Desdemona is so strong that it would have overcome all these differences were it not for the words and actions of Othello's standard-bearer, Iago, who hates Othello and sets out to destroy him by destroying his love for Desdemona. As Othello succumbs to Iago's insinuations that Desdemona is unfaithful, fascination-which dominates the early acts of the play-turns to horror, especially for the audience. We are confronted by spectacles of a generous and trusting Othello in the grip of Iago's schemes; of an innocent Desdemona, who has given herself up entirely to her love for Othello only to be subjected to his horrifying verbal and physical assaults, the outcome of Othello's mistaken convictions about her faithlessness.

As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques who speaks many of Shakespeare's most famous speeches (such as "All the world's a stage", "too much of a good thing" and "A fool A fool I met a fool in the forest"). Jaques provides a sharp contrast to the other characters in the play, always observing and disputing the hardships of life in the country.

El propio Hamlet es un ser en continua transformaci n. En l caben la ceremoniosidad, la cortes a y la reflexi n, junto a la pasi n, la burla, el enigma o la posibilidad de la locura.

Hamlet es probablemente la obra m s famosa de la literatura occidental y una de las obras literarias que ha originado mayor n mero de traducciones, an lisis, y comentarios cr ticos. Es el m s extenso drama de Shakespeare, y se encuentra entre las m s influyentes y principales tragedias en lengua inglesa. Durante la vida de Shakespeare, fue uno de sus trabajos m s reconocidos y a n hoy perdura entre las obras que han gozado de mayor n mero de representaciones, encabezando, por ejemplo, la lista de la Compa a Real de Shakespeare desde 1879. Dadas la estructura dram tica de la obra, la profundidad de sus caracterizaciones y una l nea temporal capaz de aparentemente ilimitadas reformulaciones y adaptaciones posteriores, Hamlet puede ser analizada, interpretada y discutida desde una amplia pluralidad de perspectivas.

Se piensa que Shakespeare escribi esta obra aproximadamente entre 1601 y 1605, junto con la titulada "Medida por medida", a estas dos obras se les llam "comedias oscuras" por el hecho de no entrar en ninguna categor a y tener un final que se pueda decir inteligible y enigm tico. La acci n de esta obra est situada en lugares que al autor le parec an ex ticos: Par s, Florencia y el Rosell n. Los temas que se abordan son el amor y el poder. Los dos personajes centrales, Elena y Beltr n, tratan de encontrar el mecanismo apropiado para llegar al objeto de su deseo. Se da a conocer al espectador una exposici n de los medios que el hombre puede llegar a utilizar para conseguir sus fines.

Three witches foretell that Macbeth will become king of Scotland. Encouraged by his ambitious wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan - but soon finds himself plunged into a world of terror as the dead come back to haunt him ... Although suitable for every reader, this larger print edition of Shakespeare's timeless classic is particularly well-suited to school and university students and their teachers. Here, the larger font size will make studying a more comfortable experience. Even more helpfully, wider margins provide extra space to add explanatory notes, translations of unfamiliar words and points for further thought.