The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

by William Shakespeare

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Genres: Classics

540 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1904

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

[Skrivena stranica]

Zapravo sam čitala ovaj put samo Otela iz ovog izdanja, ali to se ne može baš ovako izdvojiti. Bilo je zanimljivo, ali ne znam, mene sve ove drame nikada ne oduševljavaju baš nešto.

[Popunimojupelenu]

majkemi taman kad sam pomislila da ima nesto inteligentnog u mojoj glavi dodje kralj lear to sranje ko da sam citala u kineskom prijevodu

[Andrea]

Koliko god očit izbor to bio, svakako mislim da je najkvalitetnija drama u ovom izdanju Hamlet. Za mene je jedina među ove četiri koja može pretendirati na suvremenost jer se bavi dovoljno općenitim temama i čitatelj se može s njome poistovjetiti. Slijedi je Kralj Lear koji je dijelom hamletovski uvjerljiv, a dijelom već previše renesansno/antički koncipiran da bi bio potpuno oduševljavajuć. Othello je jedna od drama koja me tjera da se zapitam šali li se netko sa mnom - jedna osoba kojoj apsolutno svi likovi slijepo vjeruju ni iz kakvog objektivnog razloga prevari sve koje je prevariti mogla, ali, prikladno, u posljednjem činu biva razotkrivena. Da ne spominjem da na trenutke podsjeća na Pavlimir ili na još iritantnijeg Pometa iz Dundo Maroje. A Romeo i Julija dražesni su, ali i potrošeni.

[Ivan]

Jednostavno nisam fan.

[Reader2022]

(Hamlet) Iskreno dobra knjiga. Sviđa mi se radnja, likovi su zanimljivi i smiješni. Očekivala sam Hamleta u malo više radnji, a ne samo na početku djela.

[JAMILU USMAN]

I considers William Shakespeare's Othello as the best play I have read in this century.

[Orlaya]

Hamlet - 4 stars

[júlia]

Hamlet: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
King Lear: ⭐️⭐️
Othello: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Romeo and Juliet: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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