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Grandes Obras de Shakespeare - Volume 1 - Tragédias

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Coletânea das seguintes obras: Romeu e Julieta, Hamlet, Otelo e Macbeth

608 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1623

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William Shakespeare

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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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Profile Image for Pâmela Vasconcelos.
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May 13, 2021
#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.
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20 reviews1 follower
September 15, 2024
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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Profile Image for Manoela Balbino.
111 reviews
February 14, 2026
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.
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