Romeu e Julieta / Macbeth / Hamlet, príncipe da Dinamarca / Otelo, o mouro de Veneza

by William Shakespeare

Enjoy the most notable plays of William Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Shakespeare was known for his writings on tragedies and these four works are known to be some of the finest tragedies ever written. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello remain popular and are studied, performed, and reinterpreted through various cultural and political contexts around the world.

Genres: Classics, Plays, Fiction, Drama, Literature, Theatre

447 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1597

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

[Pâmela Vasconcelos]

#TERMINADO. Esse volume engloba 4 trabalhos. É tão bom que é difícil de escolher um favorito. Eu li Romeu e Julieta, pois já tinha lido esse ano de outra edição. Gostei bastante de HAMLET, sobre ser ou não ser, o clássico. No Macbeth, eu li ano passado um livro da Agatha Christie [ O Natal de Poirot] que citava Macbeth, sobre pensar que ele tinha tanto sangue. Está na página 590.: Lady Macbeth diz: "Mas quem haveria de pensar que o velho tivesse tanto sangue?"
São 4 histórias: Romeu e Julieta, Hamlet, "Otelo, o mouro de Veneza" e Macbeth.
Otelo sente ciúme de Desdémona, causado por um paninho bordado com as iniciais dela que foi parar com outro homem, foi tudo planejado por Emília e o marido desta, e ele quer matar a esposa, O Mouro. Por ser um "corno". Mouro é uma palavra para negro, mas especificamente Mulçumano. Mas ela não traiu ele, foi planejado por Iago, marido de Emília, eu acho.

[Magda]

HAMLET 5/5

I really liked Hamlet. At first I wanted to give it 4 stars because I thought : Okay I really liked it as a whole but now it's time to think about the things that really bugged me while reading and surprisingly I couldn't find a thing that was such a big deal that made me like the book less. Shakespeare's language is sometimes hard to follow but with footnotes explaining things you can manage and in "Hamlet" there were moments where I was a bit lost when Hamlet was talking but I think it was intention of the writer. This is one of the situations where I can't find reasonable explanation of why I wouldn't make it a 5 star book but something in my gut tells me that something that makes a book spacial for me was missing so it is not a full 5 stars book.


Macbeth 3,5/5

This is my second time reading "Macbeth" and I have to admit it was a tad better than the first time. I don't know why but even when I was beginning to read it for the first time I had some kind of aversion to this play, maybe third time will be a charm. I think that what kind of irritates me is the fact that Macbeth blindly listens to the witches and doesn't really question anything about their prophecies or doesn't think about consequences of his acts or morality of his behavior. This character just really bugged me and since he is the protagonist and everything in the play evolves around him my dislike to him kind of influenced how I feel about the whole book. The thing I liked about the book were the scenes with the witches. Texts like :" Double, double toil and trouble" or "Something wicked this way comes" lightened the mood of the play for me a little bit.

Othello 4/5

Main themes are trust and love. The story kept me quite curious till the end. The thing that bothered me a little was the fact that Othello so easily gave up to his jealousy and stopped trusting his wife, his emotions took over his common sense and thats why Iago so easily did what he did.If Othello put more trust into his wife Iago would have to play even more games to get to his goal and there would be more intrigues for us to uncover throughout the book. What I really like is that you can't really be sure what happens next so you read attentively wanting to know what will happen.


Romeo and Juliet 4,5/5

It's a story that nearly everyone knows. It is a great read. Only one thing bugges me a little and it is Romeo. I consider him to be a little too emotional, he kind of reminds me of a women with all his shifts of emotions. But if he wouldn't so easily fall in love and follow his emotions no matter what we wouldn't have the story.

[Manoela Balbino]

Ler Romeu e Julieta, Hamlet, Macbeth e Otelo em uma edição única, confesso que não foi uma leitura confortável nem de fácil compreensão.
Romeu e Julieta – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Eu adorei conhecer todos os caminhos dessa peça. Mesmo já sabendo do desfecho, me envolvi completamente com a intensidade dos sentimentos e com a construção do amor e do conflito. Foi uma leitura marcante e emocionante do início ao fim.

Hamlet – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Apesar de ser uma tragédia, eu gostei bastante. A profundidade dos dilemas e das reflexões me prenderam muito. É uma leitura mais densa, mas extremamente interessante e cheia de camadas.

Macbeth – ⭐⭐
Foi a peça que eu menos gostei. Reconheço a força da história e da construção da ambição e do poder, mas não consegui me envolver tanto com a leitura.

Otelo – ⭐⭐⭐
Gostei, mas não me marcou tanto quanto outras peças. A questão do ciúme e da manipulação é forte e impactante, mas para mim foi uma leitura mediana.

[Catarina Kurth]

É inconcebível que existiram, existem e existirão pessoas que nunca leram ou lerão uma peça do Bardo.
Ler Shakespeare é desembrutecer a alma.
Romeu e Julieta me fez crente da sensibilidade de uma paixão genuína e da pureza do sentimento humano.
Macbeth expôs a mim a propensão do espírito humano à própria corrupção e aviltamento.
Hamlet foi indescritível. Eu o senti. Sofri com seus tormentos e enlouqueci com suas incertezas.
Otelo me revelou o poder da confiança e da instrumentalização da aparente sublimidade do julgamento estabelecido pelo status quo.
Essas são impressões mínimas de obras que, além de avassaladoras, desvelam as mais variadas formas de expressão das paixões humanas.
"Amor nenhum lhe (Shakespeare) é alheio."
Nossos espíritos são jardins onde permitimos germinar aquilo que cultivamos. Eu pretendo cultivar a consciência das palavras dessas tragédias.

[Gabriela]

Mais triste história nunca aconteceu que esta, de Julieta e seu Romeu
Romeu e Julieta ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Que é que procurais? Se é um quadro de desgraça, aqui o tendes.
Hamlet: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Eu mesmo pra Veneza vou zarpar, A fim de esta desgraça relatar
Otelo, o Mouro de Veneza: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (arredondei, na real a nota é tipo 3,5 pela raiva que eu passei)

Dobrem males e aflição nas bolhas do caldeirão
Macbeth ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Rogerio Lopes]

Histórico de leitura
11/12/2011
100% (447 de 447)
11/12/2011
90% (402 de 447)
09/12/2011
81% (364 de 447)
08/12/2011
81% (360 de 447)
06/12/2011
73% (327 de 447)
05/12/2011
65% (292 de 447)
03/12/2011
62% (279 de 447)
02/12/2011
51% (227 de 447)
30/11/2011
44% (195 de 447)
30/11/2011
29% (129 de 447)
29/11/2011
26% (117 de 447)

[Julie]

Well duh-all of these plays are stellar, but the low stars are for this edition. You get what you pay for-in this case-very small print. Twas fun to revisit the bards most famous tragedies, especially as I get ready to see Macbeth at the Colorado Shakespeare Fest this summer!

[Mika]

I liked Othello, others were ok

[Amanda Alexandria]

* Romeu e Julieta - 3★
Hamlet - 2,5★
Otelo, o Mouro de Veneza - 2★
Macbeth - 2,5★

[Nicoli]

Li Otelo dessa coletânea. Gostei muito. Uma peça que pra mim, trata de como as aparências são enganosas e a ingenuidade, perigosa. Li com o Clube Ethos.

[Larissa]

É bom Otelo, só que a desgraça de Iago estraga tudo, até a sanidade de Mouro, fiquei com pena de Desdêmona, porque ela não fez nada de ruim, igual a Capitu.

[Márcio Ricardo]

As quatro grandes tragédias de Shakespeare compõem o primeiro livro desta coleção Grandes Obras. As minhas preferidas são Otelo, o mouro de Veneza e Hamlet, por esta ordem.