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CAPITÁN ¡Contramaestre! CONTRAMAESTRE ¡Aquí, capitán! ¿Todo bien? CAPITÁN ¡Amigo, llama a la marinería! ¡Date prisa o encallamos! ¡Corre, corre! [Sale. Entran los MARINEROS.] CONTRAMAESTRE¡Ánimo, muchachos! ¡Vamos, valor, ¡Arriad la gavia! ¡Y atentos al silbato del mar abierta, reventad soplando!muchachos! ¡Deprisa, deprisa! capitán! - ¡Vientos, mientras haya[Entran ALONSO, SEBASTIÁN, ANTONIO, FERNANDO, GONZALO y otros.]ALONSO Con cuidado, amigo. ¿Dónde está el capitán? - [A los MARINEROS] ¡Portaos como hombres! CONTRAMAESTRE Os lo ruego, quedaos abajo. ANTONIO Contramaestre, ¿y el capitán? CONTRAMAESTRE ¿No le oís? Estáis estorbando. Volved al camarote. Ayudáis a la tormenta. GONZALOCálmate, amigo. CONTRAMAESTRECuando se calme la mar. ¡Fuera! ¿Qué le importa el título de rey al fiero oleaje? ¡Al camarote, silencio! ¡No molestéis!GONZALO Amigo, recuerda a quién llevas a bordo.

ESCENA PRIMERA. Roma.¿Una calle.[Entran FLAVIO, MARULO y una turba de CIUDADANOS.] FLAVIO Idos á vuestras casas, gente ociosa. A vuestras casas. ¿Por ventura es fiesta? ¡Qué! ¿no sabéis que siendo menestrales Debéis llevar en días de trabajo De vuestra profesión el distintivo? Habla, ¿qué oficio tienes? CIUD. 1-° Carpintero. MARULO. ¿Dónde está tu mandil? ¿dónde tu regla? ¿Por qué te vistes tus mejores galas? Y tú, ¿qué oficio tienes? CIUD. 2.° Francamente,con relación á trabajos finos, no hago, como si dijeramos, más que remendar.MARULO. ¿Pero qué oficio es el tuyo? Contesta de seguida.

ANTONIO.- En verdad, ignoro por qué estoy tan triste. Me inquieta. Decís que a vosotros os inquieta también; pero cómo he adquirido esta tristeza, tropezado o encontrado con ella, de qué substancia se compone, de dónde proviene, es lo que no acierto a explicarme. Y me ha vuelto tan pobre de espíritu, que me cuesta gran trabajo reconocerme. SALARINO.- Vuestra imaginación se bambolea en el océano, donde vuestros enormes galeones, con las velas infladas majestuosamente, como señores ricos y burgueses de las olas, o, si lo preferís, como palacios móviles del mar, contemplan desde lo alto de su grandeza la gente menuda de las pequeñas naves mercantes, que se inclinan y les hacen la reverencia cuando se deslizan por sus costados con sus alas tejidas SALANIO.- Creedme, señor; si yo corriera semejantes riesgos, la mayor parte de mis afecciones se hallaría lejos de aquí, en compañía de mis esperanzas. Estaría de continuo lanzando pajas al aire para saber de dónde viene el viento. Tendría siempre la nariz pegada a las cartas marinas para buscar en ellas la situación de los puertos, muelles y radas; y todas las cosas que pudieran hacerme temer un accidente para mis cargamentos me pondrían indudablemente triste. SALARINO.- Mi soplo, al enfriar la sopa, me produciría una fiebre, cuando me sugiriera el pensamiento de los daños que un ciclón podría hacer en el mar. No me atrevería a ver vaciarse la ampolla de un reloj de arena, sin pensar en los bajos arrecifes y sin acordarme de mi rico bajel Andrés, encallado y ladeado, con su palo mayor abatido por encima de las bandas para besar su tumba. Si fuese a la iglesia, ¿podría contemplar el santo edificio de piedra, sin imaginarme inmediatamente los escollos peligrosos que, con sólo tocar los costados de mi hermosa nave, desperdigarían mis géneros por el océano y vestirían con mis sedas a las rugientes olas, y, en una palabra, sin pensar que yo, opulento al presente, puedo quedar reducido a la nada en un instante? ¿Podría reflexionar en estas cosas, evitando esa otra consideración de que, si sobreviniera una desgracia semejante, me causaría tristeza? Luego, sin necesidad de que me lo digáis, sé que Antonio está triste porque piensa en sus mercancías.

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É nesta obra que Shakespeare escreveu a célebre frase "Ser ou não ser, eis a questão"; conhecida mundialmente junto à cena do rapaz olhando para uma caveira e refletindo sobre os dilemas da vida! Lendo o resumo de Hamlet você entenderá o porquê dessa frase!A peça é a mais longa composta por Shakespeare. Uma encenação comum costuma durar cerca de 2 horas, contudo, esta peça é composta por 5 atos e quase 30 mil palavras, o que equivaleria a uma peça de um pouco mais de 4 horas! Hamlet: O protagonista, príncipe da Dinamarca, filho do falecido Rei Hamlet. É sobrinho do Rei Cláudio, filho de Gertrudes e apaixonado por Ophélia. Um personagem receoso que fez de sua vida uma busca para responder ao assassinato de seu pai. Personagens da Peça: - Fantasma do Rei Hamlet: aparece para o príncipe Hamlet, seu filho, para falar que foi envenenado por Cláudio e exige vingança. - Cláudio: O atual Rei da Dinamarca, tio do príncipe Hamlet e principal suspeito da morte de seu irmão, o Rei Hamlet. Casa-se com Gertrudes e é descrito como um homem astuto e ávido por poder. - Gertrudes: Rainha da Dinamarca, esposa do falecido Rei Hamlet e mãe do príncipe Hamlet. Casa-se com seu cunhado, Cláudio - Polônio: É o primeiro-ministro, conselheiro do Rei Cláudio, braço direito e sempre presente para apoiá-lo. - Ofélia e Laertes: filhos de Polônio. Ofélia é apaixonada pelo príncipe Hamlet e Laertes estava em outra cidade, mas volta para compor a trama.

William Shakespeare's sonnet was first published in 1609. Its structure and form are a typical example of the Shakespearean sonnet. This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love-" the marriage of true minds"-is perfect and unchanging; it does not "admit impediments," and it does not change when it finds changes in the loved one. Over the course of Sonnet 116, the speaker makes several passionate claims about what love is-and what it isn't. For the speaker (traditionally assumed to be Shakespeare himself, and thus a man), true love doesn't change over time: instead, it goes on with the same intensity forever.

A Midsummer Night's Dream, as part of the Macmillan Modern Shakespeare Series, is a large format illustrated text which is an ideal and easy introduction to Shakespeare's plays. The dominant theme in A Midsummer Night's Dream is love, a subject to which Shakespeare returns constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare explores how people tend to fall in love with those who appear beautiful to them. Until about 1608, he mainly wrote tragedies including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Antony and Cleopatra and Coriolanus-his last major tragedies, contain some of his finest poetry. A true genius, Shakespeare's popular characters and plots are studied, performed, reinterpreted and discussed till today.

Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedies of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Canoelike. King Cymbeline of Britain banishes his daughter Innogen's husband, who then makes a bet on Innogen's fidelity. Innogen is accused of being unfaithful, runs away, and becomes a page for the Roman army as it invades Britain. Cymbeline is often called a "problem play" because it defies traditional categories of genre. Many Shakespeare critics settle on calling it a "tragicomedy" since the first three acts of the play feel like mini tragedy, while the play's second half feels like a comedy.

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play's first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility. Rosalind and her cousin escape into the forest and find Orlando, Rosalind's love. Disguised as a boy shepherd, Rosalind has Orlando woo her under the guise of "curing" him of his love for Rosalind. Rosalind reveals she is a girl and marries Orlando during a group wedding at the end of the play.

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear relinquishes his power and land to two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane and a proscribed crux of political machinations. King Lear divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so Lear goes mad and wanders through a storm. Lear is not only a father but also a king, and when he gives away his authority to the unworthy and evil Goneril and Regan, he delivers not only himself and his family but all of Britain into chaos and cruelty.

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. She behaves unpleasantly to him but he pretends not to notice. In the end he marries her and ' tames' her by treating her roughly until she becomes as easy to control as wives were expected to be at that time.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. Although the play is named Julius Caesar, Brutus speaks more than four times as many lines as the title character, and the central psychological drama of the play focuses on Brutus. Julius Caesar is a tragedy, as it tells the story of an honourable hero who makes several critical errors of judgment by misreading people and events, leading to his own death and a bloody civil war that consumes his nation. The entire play centres around Brutus upholding the truth of two moral statements: First, that monarchy is intrinsically tyrannical; and secondly, that killing Caesar, an as-yet-innocent man, is morally acceptable if it prevents Rome from becoming a monarchy.

The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. Falstaff decides to fix his financial woe by seducing the wives of two wealthy merchants. The wives find he sent them identical letters and take revenge by playing tricks on Falstaff when he comes calling. The wives, however, trick Falstaff and Ford. As Falstaff visits Mistress Ford, Mistress Page announces that Ford is coming. Falstaff hides in a basket of dirty laundry and is thrown in the river. Another visit ends similarly: Falstaff disguises himself as "the fat woman of Brentford," whom Ford hates.

The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. After both being separated from their twins in a shipwreck, Antiholes and his slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them. The other set of twins lives in Ephesus, and the new arrivals cause a series of incidents of mistaken identity. The main themes of this play are family loyalties, persistence, identity and coincidence. As in all Shakespeare's plays, the theme of love and the relationships between men and women is prominent.

Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601-1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play centres on the twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated in a shipwreck. Twelfth Night is a fast-paced romantic comedy with several interwoven plots of romance, mistaken identities and practical jokes. Separated from her twin brother Sebastian in a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy, calls herself Cesario, and becomes a servant to the Duke Orsino.