Μάκβεθ
Ουίλλιαμ Σαίξπηρ, 1623
A brave man hears a promise that he will be king, and discovers how quickly the wish becomes the plan. Betrayal, and the restlessness comes from within. The speech that will never leave your head.
Ουίλλιαμ Σαίξπηρ
Shakespeare's people tend to talk themselves into things — a crown, a vow — and then have to live inside what they've said. Start with «Μάκβεθ» if you want the tight, driving version of that, or «Ρωμαίος και Ιουλιέτα» if you'd rather hear it in the rush of two young people making promises faster than they can keep them.
Feels like love, longing and grief.
Start with Μάκβεθ.
Shakespeare wrote the play under James I, whose own line reached England's throne through Banquo: the Stuart king was flattered by the witches' prophecy of a line of kings. The first printing, 1623, is the Folio.
The sentence you have heard a hundred times, in a translation that makes it hurt again.
ΣΕΥΤΩΝΗ βασίλισσα, αυθέντα σεβαστέ μου,απέθανε.ΜΑΚΒΕΘΑργότερα ’μπορούσε ν’ αποθάνη (38).Ας ήτο κι’ άλλοτε καιρός αυτό να το ακούσω.Αύριον, και αύριον, και αύριον — και φεύγειακολουθεί σιγά σιγά ημέρα την ημέραν,ως την εσχάτην συλλαβήν ’ς του Χρόνου το βιβλίον!Και κάθε χθες οπού περνά, ήτο φανός να φέξημωρούς θνητούς να σκονισθούν ’ς τον δρόμον του θανάτου! Books by Ουίλλιαμ Σαίξπηρ
Ρωμαίος και Ιουλιέτα
Ουίλλιαμ Σαίξπηρ, 1597
Two teenagers from feuding houses fall in love, and every promise they make costs them a little more. Read Shakespeare as a poet of speed and rashness.
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