Amleto: (Edizione integrale)

by William Shakespeare, Carlo Rusconi (Translator)

Amleto è la più lunga e una delle più celebri opere di Shakespeare. La prima rappresentazione avvenne tra il 1598 e il 1601, mentre il testo fu pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1603.

Il re di Danimarca, padre di Amleto, è morto di recente. Al suo posto è salito al trono Claudio, zio di Amleto, che meno di due mesi dopo sposa Gertrude, sua vedova. Lo spettro del re appare ad Amleto e gli rivela di essere stato assassinato da Claudio. Amleto deve dunque vendicare suo padre. Per realizzare il suo progetto, simula la follia. Ma sembra incapace di agire e, di fronte alla stranezza del suo comportamento, ci si chiede fino a che punto abbia conservato la ragione. Questa sua follia temporanea viene imputata all'amore che prova per Ofelia, figlia di Polonio, ciambellano e consigliere del re. La stranezza del suo comportamento fa sprofondare la corte nella perplessità. Chiamato in causa in termini velati da Amleto, però, Claudio percepisce il pericolo e decide di sbarazzarsi del nipote.

134 pages, Paperback

Published November 12, 2022

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

[Giovanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Come posso avere l'ardire di recensire un tale capolavoro? Posso solo confessare la mia vergogna di non averlo letto integralmente (anche se in italiano) fino ad oggi e di avere trovato una tale complessità di ingredienti e di modernità tali da lasciarmi annichilita.
Ho imparato molto, sia nel contenuto che nello stile letterario, e prometto di leggere altre opere di Shakespeare.
Tanti libri escono continuamente, ma quelli eterni per fortuna sono sempre a nostra disposizione. È un dovere leggerli nella loro interezza.