Peças históricas - Volume 3 (Box Grandes obras de Shakespeare 2)

by William Shakespeare

PEÇAS HISTÓRICAS | HENRIQUE IV PARTE 1 | HENRIQUE IV PARTE 2 | HENRIQUE V | HENRIQUE VIII
É amplamente sabido que William Shakespeare foi um gênio capaz de criar os mais diversos enredos e personagens. Além das tragédias e comédias que figu-ram em sua obra de dramaturgia, escreveu também diversos dramas históricos. A partir de obras clássicas, o Bardo elevou o gênero a sua mais alta dimensão, provocando reflexões pertinentes ao público da época, mas também a nós, hoje.
No presente volume figuram algumas dessas peças que fazem parte da prós-pera fase da produção do Shakespeare dramaturgo. Henrique IV parte 1 apresenta as inquietações de um rei que se vê em meio a conflitos em fronteiras e com seu antecessor, Ricardo II, além de questões com seu indômito filho, o príncipe her-deiro. Mais do que uma continuação da peça anterior, Henrique IV parte 2 é consi-derada uma extensão da primeira. Nela, com o rei cada vez mais doente, o foco se amplia para outros personagens, indo por caminhos diversos que se encontram ao final. Henrique V traz o outrora indisciplinado príncipe em um momento de ascensã sua vitória sobre a França, mesmo com grande desvantagem. Henrique VIII, por sua vez, mostra a grande personalidade emblemática e controversa do rei da Inglaterra, conhecido por seu conflito com a Igreja.

688 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1613

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

[Gabriela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Henrique IV - Parte I -> ⭐⭐
Não sou a maior fã de peças históricas não :/
"Agorinha mesmo, senhor."

Henrique IV - Parte II -> ⭐⭐,5
Achei o finalzinho melhor que o da parte I, mas continuo não curtindo peças históricas
"Meu temor é o do seu desprazer; meu cumprimento é do meu dever; e a minha fala é para pedir que me perdoem."

Henrique V - ⭐⭐⭐,5
Bem melhor que as peças do pai dele eu hein Henrique iv foi mto chatinho
"Potes começar; quem pote caçoar te um poró tampém pote comê-lo."

Henrique V - ⭐⭐⭐
Gosto da Elizabeth I, mas tenho tanta preguiça do Henrique VIII. Achei a peça meio apressada
"Ninguém hoje tem negócios em casa, todos ficam; A pequena faz desse um dia santo"