La Doma de la Furia/El Mercader de Venecia

by William Shakespeare, José María Valverde (Translator)

«Las afinidades por las que vamos emparejando a las obras de Shakespeare, con La doma de la furia y El mercader de Venecia se enriquecen con un elemento de contraste muy visible para la mentalidad actual, tan sensibilizada por el movimiento el contraste entre el machismo de La doma y el triunfo de la mujer, Porcia, en El mercader , como inteligente organizadora del feliz desenlace.»

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1596

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

[César Jiménez · Rating 5 out of 5]

El teatro de Shakespeare siempre tan sutil, irónico y reivindicativo. En esta obra compuesta por ‘La doma de la furia’ y ‘El mercader de Venecia’ ambas antagonistas en principios y valores. La primera una recriminación al machismo y la segunda un tributo al empadronamiento de la mujer.
En sus obras siempre la lucha por la igualdad expuesta con ironía y a veces sarcasmo.

[Ana Isabel Taboada · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buenas obras de teatro de Shakespeare aunque hay que decir que "El mercader de Venecia", para mi humilde opinión, es una obra bastante superior a "La doma de la furia" no quitándole por ello valor a ésta última que también rebosa dosis de ingenio de este gran autor, pero que, por argumento y sensaciones, queda por ello en un nivel inferior.

[Alejandra Tapia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me divertí mucho leyendolo, cada vez mas descubro cuanto me gusta shakespeare

[Chimista · Rating 4 out of 5]

La doma de la furia [***]
El mercader de Venecia [****]