Ουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ: Τα αριστουργήματα, Τόμος Γ

by William Shakespeare, Ερρίκος Μπελιές (Translator)

Το 2016 συμπληρώνονται 400 χρόνια από τον θάνατο ενός εκ των κορυφαίων δραματουργών όλων των εποχών, του Ουίλιαμ Σαίξπηρ (1564-1616).

Η εφημερίδα «ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ», συμμετέχοντας στον διεθνή εορτασμό της επετείου αυτής, από το Σάββατο 7 Μαΐου προσφέρει στους αναγνώστες της τη σειρά «ΤΑ ΑΡΙΣΤΟΥΡΓΗΜΑΤΑ ΤΟΥ ΟΥΙΛΙΑΜ ΣΑΙΞΠΗΡ» με τα διαχρονικά σαιξπηρικά έργα (τραγωδίες, ιστορικά δράματα και κωμωδίες).

Κάθε τόμος περιλαμβάνει τέσσερα από τα σαιξπηρικά έργα, τα οποία σφράγισαν την ιστορία και την εξέλιξη του θεάτρου, έχουν κερδίσει τον σεβασμό της κριτικής και έχουν αγαπηθεί από το κοινό. Η σύγχρονη μετάφραση σε ρέουσα νεοελληνική γλώσσα έχει την υπογραφή του ποιητή και μεταφραστή Ερρίκου Μπελιέ (1950-2016), ο οποίος πέθανε πρόσφατα στις 19 Απριλίου 2016, λίγο πριν η αφιερωμένη στον Σαίξπηρ σειρά αυτή συναντήσει το αναγνωστικό κοινό της εφημερίδας «ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ».

Τα θεατρικά έργα κάθε τόμου πλαισιώνονται από διαφωτιστική Εισαγωγή, στην οποία δίνονται οι απαραίτητες πληροφορίες προκειμένου να κατανοήσει ο αναγνώστης τη σπουδαιότητα του Σαίξπηρ και των έργων του που τον καθιστούν σύγχρονό μας, ενώ ο κάθε τόμος ολοκληρώνεται με το Χρονολόγιο Σαίξπηρ και την Εργογραφία Σαίξπηρ, με την υπογραφή Ερρίκου Μπελιέ, από τη σειρά «Άπαντα Θεατρικά Σαίξπηρ» των εκδόσεων Κέδρος.

Αναλυτικά στους τρεις τόμους που θα κυκλοφορήσουν με το ΒτΚ, περιλαμβάνονται τα έργα:

ΤΟΜΟΣ Γ [ Ο ΣΟΦΟΣ ΕΡΩΤΕΥΜΕΝΟΣ ΟΥΙΛΙΑΜ ΣΑΙΞΠΗΡ ]

Αγάπης Αγώνας Άγονος

Ρωμαίος και Ιουλιέτα

Οθέλλος

Ο έμπορος της Βενετίας

608 pages, Paperback

Published May 22, 2016

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".

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[Constantina]

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