El rey Lear: el manga (La otra h)

by William Shakespeare

Llega por primera vez en formato manga una de las historias más famosas y apasionantes de la El rey Lear de William Shakespeare.El rey Lear es sin lugar a dudas una de las tragedias más famosas de William Shakespeare (1564-1616). En ella presenciamos la caída del rey de Britania tras dividir el reino entre sus dos hijas mayores y desheredar a la pequeña a causa de su honestidad. Esta decisión, un error humano impulsado por una pasión también humana, pone en marcha una serie de mecanismos que no solo lleva la desgracia a su estirpe, sino que llega a trastocar el orden mismo de las cosas. A través de sus páginas, el lector se encontrará inmerso en la problemática de las diversas cuestiones que conforman de la condición humana, en especial en las difíciles relaciones que se establecen entre los miembros de una misma familia. La obra describe los actos de los personajes que harán que sus consecuencias los arrastren hacia un terrible final. El remolino de la tragedia creciente se plasma en las palabras del personaje el Conde de recientes eclipses de sol y de luna no nos auguran nada bueno. Aunque la razón natural lo explique de uno u otro modo, el afecto sufre las el cariño se enfría, la amistad se quebranta, los hermanos se desunen; en las ciudades, revueltas; en las naciones, discordia; en los palacios, traición; y el vínculo entre el hijo y el padre se rompe. (…) Atrás quedan ya nuestros años mejores.

200 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 12, 2017

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

[Juan Carlos López Domínguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Enorme ilustración de esta obra dramática de Shakespeare. ¡Muy recomendable!