Agostino Lombardo Knihy

"Non appartenne a un'epoca, ma a tutti i tempi", disse di Shakespeare Ben Jonson. William Shakespeare è considerato infatti da sempre il più grande autore teatrale mai esistito. La straordinaria energia creativa e la vastità della sua produzione suscitarono nei romantici l'immagine di una "forza immane della natura", di un "genio universale". Oggi, dopo oltre quattro secoli dalla nascita, Shakespeare non cessa di stupirci per la complessità, la bellezza, la varietà e la "modernità" dei personaggi e delle trame.

'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is perhaps Shakespeare's most popular comedy, & also a profound, archetypal play. In this new edition, the editor takes account of the number of important professional theatre productions & the large output of scholarly criticism on the plays which have appeared in recent years.

The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist -- all intersect at an estate called Howards End. The fate of this country home symbolizes the future of England in an exploration of social, economic, and philosophical trends during the post-Victorian era.

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible--and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).

Hoci je Oko za oko komédia, Shakespeare v nej skúma vážne otázky. Knieža Vincentio sa preoblečie za mnícha a nechá vládnuť svojho zástupcu Angela, o ktorom sa domnieva, že je stelesnená cnosť. Angelo sa však na tróne ani poriadne nezohreje, a príde o svoj čistý štít. Táto hra hlása, že aj nad vladárom musí ešte vládnuť zákon. No aj v treťom tisícročí vieme, že sa to ľahko povie a ťažko uskutočňuje.

The introduction reviews the few known facts about this early Shakespeare play and discusses the puzzling problems of its date and authorship. The text has been freshly edited with the aim of presenting the play as revised for the first recorded performance in 1594, with the addition of stage business from the prompt-copy from which the Folio edition derives.

KLEOPATRA Ak je to láska – koľko je jej? Povedz! ANTONIUS Almužnu zrátaš. Pravú lásku nikdy. KLEOPATRA A ja chcem predsa nájsť jej hranice! ANTONIUS Skôr nájdeš novú zem a nové nebo. Práve ste si prečítali jeden z najkrajších dialógov o láske zo Shakespearovej hry Antonius a Kleopatra – i jeden z najkrajších ľúbostných rozhovorov, aké pozná svetová literatúra. Antonius a Kleopatra sú milenci, ktorí naozaj žili, no ich láska sa stala rovnako slávnou legendou ako láska Romea a Júlie, ktorá sa zrodila v básnickej fantázii. Napokon William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) nebol obyčajný dramatik, o ňom sa vždy bude hovoriť ako o najväčšom básnikovi divadla. Aj nový slovenský preklad je dielom básnika – hru preložil pre vydavateľstvo Ikar Ľubomír Feldek. Všetky preklady, ktoré vydávame v tejto sérii, sa opierajú o najlepšie anglické kritické vydanie THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE.