Grandes Obras de Shakespeare - Volume 2 - Comédias

by William Shakespeare, Barbara Heliodora (Translator)

William Shakespeare é, sem dúvida, um mito. Sua obra tem um caráter universal e eterno, subvertendo o tempo e atravessando gerações. Para reverenciar este mestre, a Nova Fronteira preparou um box especial que reúne suas obras mais famosas, contando com a organização da professora Liana de Camargo Leão, especialista e pesquisadora da obra de Shakespeare, e a tradução consagrada da ensaísta e crítica de teatro Barbara Heliodora.
Volume 2: A megera domada, Sonho de uma noite de verão, O mercador de Veneza e A tempestade.

448 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1604

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

[Pâmela Vasconcelos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esse foi o 2 volume do BOX, com 4 peças: A Megera Domada; Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão; O Mercador de Veneza; A Tempestade. Eu preferi o primeiro volume: TRAGÉDIAS. Ri mais com as TRAGÉDIAS de Shakespeare, do que com as COMÉDIAS propriamente ditas. Mas minha favorita deste segundo livro foi "A MEGERA DOMADA".

[Manoela Balbino · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Megera Domada – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Foi divertido de ler e consegui fazer muitas associações durante a leitura. Apesar das questões polêmicas envolvendo a relação entre os personagens, achei uma obra envolvente e interessante de analisar. Gostei de perceber de algumas adapações famosas.

Sonho de uma Noite de Verão – ⭐⭐⭐
Gostei da leitura, principalmente pelo tom leve e fantasioso, mas para mim foi apenas ok. Não me marcou tanto quanto eu imaginava.

O Mercador de Veneza – ⭐⭐
Foi a peça que eu menos gostei. Achei a leitura mais difícil de me envolver e não me conectei tanto com a história.

A Tempestade – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Gostei bastante de ler. A atmosfera da ilha e os elementos mágicos me prenderam, e achei a narrativa interessante do começo ao fim.

[Márcio Ricardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

O segundo livro deste box traz também ele - e à semelhança dos outros dois - quatro obras.

São A Megera Domada, Sonho de Uma Noite de Verão, O Mercador de Veneza e A Tempestade.

O meu preferido é O Mercador de Veneza. Gostei, ainda, de A Megera Domada. Os outros achei entediantes.

[Amanda Alexandria · Rating 3 out of 5]

*2,8

A megera domada - 2,5 ☆
Sonho de uma noite de verão - 4 ☆
O mercador de veneza - 2,5 ☆
A tempestade - 2,5 ☆

[Gabriela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nós somos do estofo de que se fazem sonhos; e esta vida encerra-se num sono.
A tempestade ⭐⭐⭐