Romeo y Julieta/Hamlet/Macbeth/Sueño de una Noche de Verano

by William Shakespeare

236 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1989

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

[LUNA · Rating 4 out of 5]

HAMLET: ya lo había leído y me gusto mucho.
SUEÑO DE UNA NOCHE DE VERANO: es maravilloso, de hecho es mi preferido.
ROMIO Y JULIETA: pues me ha parecido aburrido.
MARBERH: me ha gustado mucho salvo por el final que se me hizo muy largo.

[Antonella Favazza · Rating 5 out of 5]

¿Qué se puede decir de este autor?... Shakespeare ciertamente lo dijo todo en su literatura. Cada vez que me decido a leerlo me acuerdo lo muy entretenido que resulta. De estas cuatro, mi preferida es Hamlet y la que menos me gusta Romeo y Julieta. Macbeth me parece una obra sublime y me reí mucho leyendo Sueño de una noche de verano. De todas formas, creo que las cuatro son obras que hay que leer al menos una vez en la vida.

[Cristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Alguna de estas historias las conocía, sin embargo, no las había leído realmente. Gracias a este libro he podido descubrir la pluma del autor y detalles desconocidos de historias tan conocidas como Romeo y Julieta. Otras me han hecho disfrutar mucho con las ocurrencias de sus personajes como Sueño de una noche de verano. Y otras me han mostrado enseñanzas interesantes sobre la ambición y sus límites como Macbeth. La historia que menos me ha gustado ha sido Hamlet. No he llegado a interiorizar con ningún personaje y se me hizo un poco pesado.

[GuishGuill · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sueño de una noche de Verano: no me ha gustado nada. El resto de obras las leí de otros libro.

[Lidia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Romeo y Julieta ⭐️⭐️
Hamlet ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sueño de una noche de verano ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Macbeth ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[Romi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Romeo y Julieta me atrapó y me hizo muy feliz.

[Wιηтєя Wєdηєѕdαу · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic.
If I have to chose a favourite between these 4, it has to be Hamlet.

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Cover: Not a big deal, but still pretty.
Getting Into It: Medium/hard.
Complicated Words: Many.
Reading Speed: Medium.
Romance: Yes, Shakespeare's style.
Boring Parts: A Few.
Funny Parts: A Few.

[Danny R. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Romeo y Julieta, Hamlet, Sueño de Una Noche de Verano, Macbeth.

Romeo y Julieta fue el que más me costó y el que menos me gustó.
Amor infinito para las otras 3 obras tho.