Shakespeare: Tragedias (Los Clásicos) Jackson Grolier

by William Shakespeare

Cuarta edición
Publicada bajo la dirección de un comité selectivo con la colaboración de prominentes escritores de diversos países, traducciones de Jaime Clark (revisadas por Ricardo Baeza) y de Jacinto Benavente.
Esta edición contiene un estudio preliminar hecho por Antonio Pagés Larraya.
Además, concentra las historias de:

Romeo y Julieta
La clásica pieza de teatro Romeo y Julieta de William Shakespeare, escrita aproximadamente entre 1593 y 1594, ha traspasado las generaciones y se ha convertido en una obra maestra de la literatura occidental. La historia, transcurrida en Verona (en el interior de Italia), tiene como protagonistas a los enamorados Romeo Montesco y Julieta Capuleto.
(Contiene cinco actos)

Hamlet
Esta obra de teatro gira en torno a las tribulaciones de Hamlet, cuyo padre, el rey de Dinamarca, ha muerto. Luego de que el fantasma de éste le revela que ha sido asesinado por Claudio, su hermano y actual rey (que además ha casado con la madre de Hamlet, Gertrudis), lo urge a vengarse
(Contiene cinco actos)

Otelo
Es un drama sobre los efectos de los celos. Otelo es un general de Venecia en la época más poderosa del imperio veneciano. Tras triunfar en varias batallas es nombrado gobernador de Chipre que pertenecía en esa época a Venecia. Se casa con la hija de un rico veneciano llamada Desdemona.
(Contiene cinco actos)

El rey Lear
Lear es el viejo rey de Bretaña que, debido a su vejez, decide repartir su reino entre sus hijas Gonerilda, Regania, y Cordelia. ... El marido de Gonerilda, el duque de Albania, no aprueba la actitud de su mujer pero es un hombre sin carácter.
(Contiene cinco actos)

452 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

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

[estela · Rating 3 out of 5]

gracias a este libro me he dado cuenta de que cuando leo teatro me salto los nombres de los personajes y luego no recuerdo quién dijo cada cosa. es un poco confuso. los argumentos de las historias un poco sin más, básicamente porque son tragedias shakespearianas y eso, pero hay frases muy bonitas. shakespeare era un genio en verdad.