Una colección única que rinde homenaje a los grandes poetas de la literatura universal que cantaron a la vida. Cada entrega es una antología que reúne la totalidad o los poemas indispensables de célebres autores en una edición de lujo.
En esta 15a entrega: Shakespeare. El volumen recopila todos los sonetos de quien acaso sea el gran escritor de todos los tiempos. Un imprescindible en cualquier biblioteca.
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".
El mayor problema de este tomo de la colección es la traducción. Trataron de continuar con la estructura métrica y de rima de los sonetos, así que no estoy tan seguro si de verdad estas son sus palabras o más bien trataron de tomar la esencia del poema y darle el mismo significado. Al ser traducidos, en inglés utilizan mucha voz pasiva; en español no es tan normal, así que leer esto puede ser un poco confuso o al menos requiere un poco más de tiempo en página para agarrarle la onda completamente. Tampoco me gustó mucho que es básicamente un libro de principio a fin, en otros tomos de la colección agarran algunos poemas de cada poemario, y los que tienen números en vez de nombre suelen venir el 3, el 9, el 22; aquí tenemos la numeración seguida y hubo un par de casos donde cuatro sonetos iban sobre el mismo tema y usaban algunas de las mismas palabras principales, se sentía como si viéramos los intentos de Shakespeare, pero más bien me hace pensar que vendió el mismo poema pero con algunos cambios a distintos postores.
Al inicio no estaba muy convencida por qué habla de su forma de perdurar con los hijos y viviendo atravez de ellos para seguir viendo su juventud y mi pensamiento salto en modo feminista por qué William Shakespeare dejo a su esposa e hijos para convertirse en lo que hoy es. Su talento es innegable pero conforme seguí leyendo el trayecto de su poesía al olvido, amor y desamor, expresa sus sentimientos de una manera íntima en la que vemos sus miedos y su manera de afrontarlos.
La verdad es que algunos poemas se me hicieron excesivamente depresivos. Como que decía que si no dejas herencias de hijos el mundo no tendrá memoria de ti y esas cosas que me parecieron super depres. Eso sí, los poemas están escritos perfectamente y son elegantes a la vez que bonitos, pero bueno. Ustedes ya saben que mi relación con este autor es bastante mala porque nada me gusta a excepción de Hamlet (un poco, solo un poco) y Macbeth (AMO AMO AMO)