Tragedias

by William Shakespeare, José María Valverde (Translator)

William Shakespeare es posiblemente el poeta y dramaturgo más influyente de nuestro tiempo. Hombres de imaginación inagotalbes, fue admirado por los grandes poetas del romanticismo alemán, autores franceses, compositores de opera italianos y pintores de todo el mundo. Este volumen recoge las tragedias más importantes del autor -Hamlet, Macbeth, El Rey Lear, Otelo, Romeo y Julieta, Julio César. Una edición indispensable de Shakespeare en la literatura.

Genres: Fiction, Classics, British Literature, Drama

470 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1616

About the author

William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner ("sharer") of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men after the ascension of King James VI and I of Scotland to the English throne. At age 49 (around 1613), he appears to have retired to Stratford, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive; this has stimulated considerable speculation about such matters as his physical appearance, his sexuality, his religious beliefs, and even certain fringe theories as to whether the works attributed to him were written by others.
Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. His early plays were primarily comedies and histories and are regarded as some of the best works produced in these genres. He then wrote mainly tragedies until 1608, among them Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth, all considered to be among the finest works in the English language. In the last phase of his life, he wrote tragicomedies (also known as romances) and collaborated with other playwrights.
Many of Shakespeare's plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime. However, in 1623, John Heminge and Henry Condell, two fellow actors and friends of Shakespeare's, published a more definitive text known as the First Folio, a posthumous collected edition of Shakespeare's dramatic works that includes 36 of his plays. Its Preface was a prescient poem by Ben Jonson, a former rival of Shakespeare, that hailed Shakespeare with the now famous epithet: "not of an age, but for all time".

Reviews

[Enric Pineda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insignificancias ligeras como el aire son para los celosos confirmaciones tan sólidas como pruebas de la Sagrada Escritura (III,3)

[Rebecca Timberlake · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read most of these before, but Macbeth and King Lear were new to me.

Hamlet- 5 stars
Romeo and Juliet- 4 stars
Macbeth- 5 stars
King Lear- 3 stars
Julius Caesar- 4 stars
Othello- 5 stars

Total: 4.33 rounded down to 4 stars.

I think Lear is so low for me because of the way this kindle book formatted it. I look forward to rereading it in a physical book format to see if I enjoy it more.

[Jason · Rating 3 out of 5]

It is fascinating reading Shakespeare in translation. The poetry is lost except in general terms but you gain a greater respect for his craft with story-telling. These translations are perfectly passable. They remind me of the translations you get for young people into contemporary English: simplifications but none the worse for that.

[Dani Arce · Rating 5 out of 5]

Siempre, siempre va a ser mi compendio favorito, la forma de Shakespeare de narrar, de dar vida a sus personajes es la más maravillosa que haya tenido algún escritor en la historia de la literatura, sumamente recomendable.

[Junn · Rating 3 out of 5]

LEÍDO HAMLET, por ahora.

Muy interesante historia. La caracterización del protagonista me gusta y es alguien lleno de momentos sumamente ingeniosos. Ha sido una buena forma de probar por primera vez con las tragedias. A la próxima me animaré con Macbeth o Romeo yJulieta y actualizaré la reseña.

[Jose Cobos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Leída en el club de lectura de clásicos. Ediciones traducida por Jacinto Benavente. Me gusta más como traduce Joe Broderick.