Grandes Obras de Shakespeare - Volume 3 - Peças Históricas

by William Shakespeare

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 3: Ricardo III, Ricardo II, Júlio César e Antônio e Cleópatra

608 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1607

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]

Minha peça favorita das 4 contidas nesse livro foi "Antônio e Cleópatra", tão trágica quanto Romeu e Julieta.

[Manoela Balbino]

Rei Ricardo III – ⭐
Eu não gostei nada dessa peça. Não consegui me envolver com a história nem com os personagens, e a leitura foi bem arrastada para mim.

Rei Ricardo II – ⭐
Também não gostei. Achei difícil me conectar com os conflitos e, no geral, foi uma leitura que não me prendeu.

Júlio César – ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Eu adorei! Todas as cenas são muito marcantes, e fica muito clara a importância da oratória e de como o discurso pode manipular a massa. A construção política da peça me envolveu bastante.

Antônio e Cleópatra – ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Eu amei! É um romance vivido na maturidade, mas que está longe de ser maduro. A intensidade, o orgulho e a paixão dos dois tornam a história quase caótica e justamente por isso tão fascinante.

[Márcio Ricardo]

O último livro do Box Grandes Obras de William Shakespeare nos traz as seguintes peças históricas: Ricardo III; Ricardo II; Júlio César; António e Cleópatra.

Os meus preferidos foram Ricardo III e Júlio César. Vale muito a pena ler o bardo inglês, nem que seja ao menos uma vez na vida.