Zkrocení zlé ženy

by William Shakespeare, Erik Adolf Saudek (Translator)

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men, the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio, and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in love with Bianca, the apparently ideal younger daughter of the wealthy Baptista Minola. But before they can marry, Bianca's formidable elder sister, Katherine, must be wed. Petruchio, interested only in the huge dowry, arranges to marry Katherine -against her will- and enters into a battle of the sexes that has endured as one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable works.

Genres: Classics

144 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 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

[Kat · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kdyby se tam všichni nejmenovali stejně.....

[Ema · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ten konec, co to jako bylo

[Tereza · Rating 2 out of 5]

jakoby byl strašně confusing ty jména a zapamatovat si kdo je kdo a taky co se tam vůbec děje. jsem si pak přečetla rozbor, co jsem našla na internetu a trochu mi to pomohlo s pochopením, ale stejně to byla docela bolest, protože jsem četla, ale vlastně jsem nevěděla o co go. jen to, že kateřina je svině a blanku (jestli se tak jmenovala😭😭) mají všichni rádi.

[Verča · Rating 3 out of 5]

Na to jak je ten příběh starý je vlastně čtivý.
Já mám osobně dost výhrady proti postavení žen v těhle dobách, tak s Kateřinou v tom jejím závěrečným ,,proslovu” moc nesouhlasím. Ale chápu, že to zobrazuje jinou dobu.
Takže jako celek dost zdařilý a Shakespeare mě nezklamal.

[Barbora Zapletalová · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stejný případ jako u Snu noci svatojánské. Čtené již po několikáté, ale tuto hru jsem viděla v divadle, a byla to taková zábava! Samotný text není tak zábavný, což je ale naprsto v pořádku, účel tohoto textu je zpracovat to do divadelní hry.

[Eliška Vomáčková · Rating 2 out of 5]

moc mě to nebavilo, ale na to že je to stará knížka k maturitě, tak se to docela dalo

[Salma Abu · Rating 2 out of 5]

co to zas bylo tyvole