Begitulah Cinta

by William Shakespeare

Cinta, sebuha emosi abstrak dari rasa kasih sayang. Banyak cara untuk mengungkapkan isi hati, salah satunya dengan kata. Buku ini merangkum kutipan-kutipan cinta terkenal pada beberapa karya legendaris Shakespeare seperti Romeo&Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, dan Two Gentlement of Verona

117 pages

First published January 1, 2013

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

[Rahmanda Wulandari · Rating 2 out of 5]

ternyata shakespeare tidak seromantis yang saya pikirkan. atau karena ini hanya kumpulan sandiwara yang dia buat?

[Ar Rifa'ah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Saya pribadi lebih senang membaca bacaan dengan tema cinta dari sudut pandang yang 'lebih langit'. Potongan-potongan kutipan dalam buku ini pun juga tentu akan lebih 'berasa' jika diikuti jalan ceritanya secara utuh. Namun, izinkan saya untuk mengutip kutipan favorit saya dalam buku ini:

"Ia yang patut dicinta adalah ia yang berani menyatakan cintanya." (Macbeth-Act 2 Scene 3)

"Pisau dapat membunung manusia, dan cacing-cacing dapat memakan bangkainya, namun cinta tidak akan mati dengan hal-hal semacam itu". (As You Like It -Act 4 Scene 1)

[Laras · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dengarkanlah hatiku berbicara; sejak pertama kali melihatmu, aku tahu aku telah menemukan belahan hati tempatku mengadu – The Tempest – Act 3, scene 1

Kumpulan kata-kata indah yang diutarakan Shakespeare terkumpul dalam buku ini. Mulai dari Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, hingga The Two Gentelmen of Verona. Intinya, Shakespeare tetap merupakan pujangga yang berhasil merangkai kata tentang cinta dengan indah.

[Fahimah Rahmadian · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pertama saya kira buku ini berisi tentang sajak dan puisi shakespeare, namun ternyata berisi tentang kutipan-kutipannya dalam sandiwara yang diciptakannya. Tidak ada yang menyangkal bahwa Shakespeare adalah pioneer dalam urusan tulisan roman, namun dalam hakikatnya sebagai buku, saya kurang menikmati isi buku yang terlalu sederhana ini.