Shakespeare´s Scottish story of witchcraft and murder is probably one of his darkest works. Macbeth´s bloody rise to power is encouraged by his wife, Lady Macbeth. Like her husband, Lady Macbeth´s ambition leads her into a dark world of guilt and madness which slowly destroys their marriage, and ends in tragedy
Ricardo II pertenece a la serie de dramas históricos ingleses escritos por Shakespeare, drama en la que el genial autor británico va más allá de los avatares del juego político e indaga en el comportamiento de los hombres y en las razones de sus actos. Angel-Luis Pujante, catedratico de la Universidad de Murcia y reconocido especialista en la obra de Shakespeare, es autor de esta excelente traduccion, que ofrece arropada por un riguroso analisis de la base historica del drama y de sus singulares caracteristicas literarias. Narra los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar a raiz de la usurpacion del trono por Ricardo en 1399 y el consiguiente advenimiento de la dinastia de los Lancaster. El drama gira en torno a la perdida, conservacion y conquista del poder, pero, a diferencia de las anteriores obras historicas. Su estilizado lenguaje, reflejo de la ceremonia y la pompa de la corte medieval, al dejar un resquicio para expresar el lamento, coexiste con el tono elegiaco y personal tan caracteristico de este drama.
"To the Queen" (or "To The Queen by the players") is a short poem attributed to William Shakespeare. It was included in 2007 by Jonathan Bate in his complete Shakespeare edition for the Royal Shakespeare Company.The poem, written on the back of an envelope, is thought to have been written as an epilogue for a performance of As You Like It given at court on Shrove Tuesday in February 1599. American scholars William Ringler and Steven May discovered the poem in 1972 in the notebook of a man called Henry Stanford, who is known to have worked in the household of the Lord Chamberlain.It consists of 18 lines.
"Julius Caesar" is one of the greatest political thrillers written by William Shakespeare. The play sets forth in Rome around 44 B.C. and tells the story of the conspiracy against Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of his conspirators.Jealous conspirators convince Caesars friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March. Mark Antony drives the conspirators out of Rome and fights them in a battle. Brutus and his friend Cassius lose and kill themselves, leaving Antony to rule in Rome.
This play has been popular on the stage during the last three centuries and has proved itself admirable suited to adaptation as pure farce and musical spectacle.
La historia original del moro de Venecia, de Gianbattista Giraldi Cinthio (1565), sirvió a William Shakespeare para crear Otelo, la única de sus "grandes tragedias" basada en una obra de ficción. Contraviniendo la imagen isabelina del "moro", Shakespeare invierte los papeles de los protagonistas y otorga al moro Otelo el caracter de hombre noble y aristocratico, mientras que reserva para el italiano Yago la perversidad y la hipocresia, desarrollando en el uno de los estudios mas profundos del mal. Otelo se presenta como la tragedia de la incomprension, en la que luchan el amor puro, la pasion, el orgullo, los celos, la venganza..., y en la que al final, el protagonista, como un autentico heroe tragico, consciente de su degradacion y de su perdida, escribe su propio epitafio, con la angustia del heroe destrozado.
