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by William Shakespeare

93 pages, Hardcover

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".

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[Cosmo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nu credeam că mă va amuza atât de cumplit această operă. Conceptul comediei mi s-a părut foarte bine gândit, pentru că au fost răsturnări de situație care au oferit un farmec tuturor scenelor. Personajele au avut o personalitate complex gândită, astfel dramaturgul a vrut să scoată în lumină și calitățile artistice ale unor bieți oameni din secolul al XVI-lea.
Numele personajelor este inspirat din numele unor personaje din mitologia greacă (Elena, Tezeu, Pryam, Egeu). Acțiunea începe să prindă amploare când Puck (care în mintea mea a fost imaginat ca fiind Dobby din seria Harry Potter)încurcă persoanele pe care el trebuia să-i atingă cu floarea lui Cupidon, care avea scopul de a te face să te îndrăgostești de prima ființă care-ți apărea în față. Lucrurile se schimbă când personajele principale se îndrăgostesc de cine nu trebuia, așa că Oberon îl trimite din nou pe Puck să rezolve problema pe care înfăptuise între eroii noștri. Într-un final, lucrurile revin la normal iar trupa de actori ambulanți își prezintă arta în fața nuntașilor, unde aceștia sunt mai mult sau mai puțin apreciați dar dacă aș fi fost în locul lui Hippolyta și Tezeu aș fi aruncat un ropot asurzitor de aplauze pentru că pe mine una, m-a amuzat felul în care actori au interpretat rolurile.
Încă o dată, Shakespeare nu dezamăgește cu scrierile sale pe cei mai noi cititori ai săi.