Opere: 3. A douăsprezecea noapte. Doi veri de stirpe aleasă. Nevestele vesele din Windsor

by William Shakespeare, Violeta Popa (trad.), George Volceanov (trad.)

Volumul de față reunește trei comedii ale Marelui Will: A douasprezecea noapte, Doi veri de stirpe aleasa și Nevestele vesele din Windsor - o comedie carnavalescă, de inspirație italiană; o tragi-comedie târzie, scrisă în colaborare cu mai tânărul John Fletcher, dramatizarea unei povestiri cavalaerești preluate din creațiile lui Boccaccio și Geoffrey Chaucer; și o comedie rurala, dar si citadina, al carei protagonist este nemuritorul cavaler John Falstaff. Aparent trei povesti diferite - una cu actiunea plasata in Iliria, alta cu povestea unei prietenii tradate si a mai multor iubiri nefericite consumate in decor de mitologie elina, in plina domnie a lui Tezeu la Atena, iar ultima cu actiunea derulata in Anglia inceputului de secol al XV-lea -, cele trei comedii au un numitor comun sesizat si de contemporanii lui Shakespeare: toate trei reprezinta realitati dure, economice, sociale si politice, ale lumii in care a trait autorul. Iliria lui Orsino, Atena lui Tezeu si Windsorul din timpul domniei lui Henric al V-lea devin travestiuri ale Angliei elisabetane si iacobite.
Iar daca in tragedii, personajele feminine se lasa dominate de barbati si raman sclavele mentalitatilor patriarhale, ingeniozitatea Violei si a Mariei, taria de caracter si tenacitatea Fiicei Temnicerului, onestitatea, umorul si istetimea doamnelor Ford si Page, emanciparea tinerei Anne Page - tot atatea femei care isi iau destinul in propriile maini - demonstreaza ca, cel putin in comedie, eroinele shakespeariene sunt superioare sau cel putin egale cu cei care fac legea intr-o `lume a barbatilor`.

470 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 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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[Manea Ionut · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Falstaff: O, puternică dragoste! Într-o privinţă faci din bestie om şi în alta din om fiară."

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