Otelo. La Fierecilla Domada. A Vuestro Gusto. El Rey Lear.

by William Shakespeare

SPANISH ED.

Genres: Shakespeare

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

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

[Merch Pascacio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bueno, ya escribí mi opinión sobre las dos primeras obras porque no encontraba esta mera edición de compilación hasta que busqué a vuestro gusto, que no tengo más que decir que me aburrió, era obvio lo que iba a pasar porque ya entendía el patrón de las obras de Shakespeare.
El rey Lear me gustó mucho. Puede que me agradó más porque la historia no gira alrededor del romance si no de relación padre-hijas e hijos que ahora pienso que debería leer más historias con ese tema.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

#RetoLector2022 de #Agosto
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#LaFierecillaDomada 🐉✌😎
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Todo mundo a leîdo a Shakespeare, aunque no lo sepa. Es esta la gran cualidad de las imperecederas tramas shekspirianas, porque igual de imperecederas son las sensaciones, sentimientos y motivos que nos dominan y nos hacen actuar...vivir. Y êsto Shakespeare lo supo ( lo sabe) bien.
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Porque, quiên de sus lectores, no ha sentido celos del ser amado. Sentimiento "Tôxico" le dicen ahora, pero no por ello se dejan de sentir; sentimiento bueno o malo, el corazôn no entiende de moralina...se siente y punto. Y de ello trata la gran obra de Otello: el gran hombre que cae en la desdicha de llevar hasta el fatal extremo la sensaciôn de traiciôn de su amada Desdêmona, bajo las mesquinas intrigas de sus enemigos.
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¿Quiên de sus lectores no se ha sentido decepcionado y traicionado por los seres mâs queridos, los mismos que integran el círculo familiar mâs intimo? ¿No es este un sentimiento desolador de los mâs debastadores? En la tragedia, El Rey Lear tendrâ que enfrentarse en su vejez a la traiciôn y abandono de sus hijas, todo por la ambiciôn de la herencia paterna...
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Pero sentimientos y situaciones absurdas tambiên son parte del que hacer humano sus obras. La Fierecilla nos regala una oda al "gaslighting", ya que serâ el mêtodo que se utilizarâ sobre Catalina, mujer iracunda que ahuyenta a todos sus pretendientes por su carâcter fuerte. Pero no contarâ con el mêtodo de uno de ellos, el cual promete domarla y dejarla mâs adorable que un corderito.
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"A vuestro gusto" es una obra donde Shakespeare muestra su genio e ingenio para la comedia, con enruedos amorosos, relaciones picarescas y comentarios intelectualmente sarcâsticos.
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[Nia Romero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un clásico obligado

[Antonio Calderon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me ayudó a salir de un bloqueo lector, y despertó en mí el gusto por el teatro. Dramas y comedias ideales para leer una tarde de domingo.

[Maximiliano · Rating 5 out of 5]

Una verdadera belleza...

[Natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lo leí por la escuela