Articoli marcati con tag ‘amore’

Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer night’s dream”

titania-LA Midsummer night’s dream, opera appartenente al versante comico dell’opera di William Shakespeare, apparve nel 1595; da allora fu uno dei testi shakespeariani più rappresentati. Centro del “dramma” è, ancora, una volta, l’amore visto nelle sue varie facce, tutte essenzialmente riconducibili alla saggezza popolare incarnata dal folletto Puck: “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” (“Dio, che folli questi mortali!”). Leggi il resto di questo articolo »

Shakespeare’s “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

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Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. Leggi il resto di questo articolo »