Roméo et Juliette: suivi d'un groupement thématique « Comment parler d'amour ? »

by William Shakespeare, Hélène Potelet, Claire Folcolini

La célèbre tragédie de Shakespeare dans une édition enrichie de nombreux compléments pédagogiques.
En lien avec le thème « Dire l’amour » du programme de français en 4 e .

L’œuvre
Malgré la haine qui oppose leurs familles, Roméo et Juliette choisissent de s’aimer.
Leur histoire tragique est portée à incandescence par le génie dramatique et poétique de Shakespeare. Aujourd’hui encore, les amoureux de Vérone sont l’emblème d’une jeunesse révoltée et passionnée qui s’aime à la vie à la mort, en dépit de tous les obstacles.

Les compléments pédagogiques
• Des repères sur le contexte de l’œuvre
• Des notes qui éclairent la lecture
• Des illustrations
• Des questionnaires accessibles
• Les définitions des notions clés

Et aussi : le dossier thématique « Comment parler d’amour ? »
Pour analyser les thèmes et les formes du lyrisme amoureux.
Un dossier structuré en trois sections. Dans chacune, des documents (textes et iconographies) introduits et associés à des mini-questionnaires.

Pour l’enseignant
Sur www.editions-hatier.fr, en accès gratuit réservé, un guide pédagogique, avec un descriptif de la séquence et les corrigés des questionnaires.
« Roméo. – J’ai escaladé ces murs sur les ailes légères de l’amour : — car les limites de pierre ne sauraient arrêter l’amour, — et ce que l’amour peut faire, l’amour ose le tenter ; — voilà pourquoi tes parents ne sont pas un obstacle pour moi. » (Acte II, scène 1)

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 2, 2020

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".