Hogarth Shakespeare Séria

Sedemdesiate roky, ponuré priemyselné mesto sužuje chudoba a úpadok mravov. Zatvára sa jedna továreň za druhou, po uliciach sa potácajú narkomani a vysoko postavení občania figurujú na výplatných páskach dílerov. Macbeth je policajt s temnou minulosťou. Lady jeho milenka a majiteľka luxusného kasína. Hekate nie je bohyňa kúziel, ale mocný vodca drogového kartelu. A trojica odporných žien mieša v kotle namiesto čarovného elixíru tie najsilnejšie narkotiká... V podaní bestsellerového nórskeho spisovateľa Jo Nesboa sa miesto a postavy slávnej Shakespearovej tragédie menia, ale najdôležitejšie prísady – ambície, vášne a zrada – zostávajú rovnaké. Aj po viac ako štyroch storočiach. Z anglického překladu Dona Bartletta překlad do slovenštiny Jozef Zelizňák.

Феликс на пике своей карьеры. Он успешный режиссер, куратор театрального фестиваля. Когда из-за козней врагов, своих бывших коллег, Феликс лишается своего места, он вынужден уехать в канадское захолустье, чтобы там зализывать раны, разговаривать с призраком своей умершей дочери Миранды и - вынашивать план мести. Местная тюрьма предлагает Феликсу преподавать заключенным, и Феликс возвращается к когда-то не реализованному плану: поставить радикально новую версию "Бури" Шекспира. А заодно и отомстить врагам. "Ведьмино отродье" - пересказ "Бури" эпохи YouTube, рэп-лирики и новой драмы в исполнении Маргарет Этвуд.

Treacherously toppled from his post as director of the Makeshiweg Festival on the eve of his production of The Tempest, Felix retreats to a backwoods hovel to lick his wounds and mourn his lost daughter. And also to plot his revenge. After twelve years his chance appears in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Here, Felix and his inmate actors will stage his Tempest at last, and snare the traitors who destroyed him. But will it remake Felix as his enemies fall ?

Magnát Strulovič, zhrzený otec, manžel i žid, narazí při návštěvě manchesterského hřbitova na nečekaného, zato vítaného dvojníka: na souvěrce Šajloka ze Shakespearova dramatu Kupec benátský (1600). Prokletá literární postava má s podobnými lapáliemi bolestné zkušenosti, a tak se s boháčem odebere domů, jelikož mají co prodiskutovat. Románová hříčka nejvýraznějšího angložidovského prozaika současnosti klame tělem jako každá skvostná komedie. V atmosféře dnešní relativizace hodnot, při níž se hlas krve znovu nezapře a blbost jakbysmet, dialog obou pánů kouzelně otestuje meze pojmů čest, otcovství, víra a rovněž význam obřízky, která přichází na scénu coby pověstná libra masa ze Šajlokovy soudní pře.

Slepá žiarlivosť a ničivý hnev – no čas lieči všetky rany. Londýnsky investičný bankár Leo podozrieva svoju tehotnú manželku MiMi, že ho podvádza so svojím priateľom z mladosti Xenom. V zúrivej žiarlivosti a slepote voči všetkým protichodným dôkazom sa odvracia od MiMi a svojej novorodenej dcéry Perdity. Šťastnou náhodou nájde barový klavirista Shep dieťa a vezme ho domov. O niekoľko rokov neskôr sa dievča zamiluje do mladého muža – jediného syna Xenona. Spoločne sa vydávajú na cestu, aby vyriešili záhadu svojho pôvodu a uzdravili staré rany, aby konečne prelomili kliatbu minulosti. Jeanette Winterson majstrovsky manipuluje s postavami a dejom zo Shakespearovho „Zimného rozprávky“ a rozpráva prekvapivo moderný príbeh o zúrivej žiarlivosti, slepom sebapohrdnutí a hlbokej túžbe v nás, napraviť chyby minulosti.

She noticed him before anyone else. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship: Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again.

'I really did have an empire, you know,' said Dunbar. 'Have I ever told you the story of how it was stolen from me?' Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he hands over care of the corporation to his two eldest daughters, Abby and Megan, but as relations sour he starts to doubt the wisdom of past decisions... Now imprisoned in a care home in the Lake District with only a demented alcoholic comedian as company, Dunbar starts planning his escape. As he flees into the hills, his family is hot on his heels. But who will find him first, his beloved youngest daughter, Florence, or the tigresses Abby and Megan, so keen to divest him of his estate? Edward St Aubyn is renowned for his masterwork, the five Melrose novels, which dissect with savage and beautiful precision the agonies of family life. His take on King Lear, Shakespeare's most devastating family story, is an excoriating novel for and of our times - an examination of power, money and the value of forgiveness.

Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our most beloved novelists. "You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that." Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work--her preschool charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr.... When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying--as usual--on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he's really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. Its answer is as individual, off-beat, and funny as Kate herself.