Peter Holland Livres

Tragedy of an honorable but haughty Roman patrician in the days of the early Republic.

THESEUS Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace : four happy days bring in Another moon ; but O, methinks how slow This old moon wanes ! She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, Long withering out a young man's revenue. HIPPOLYTA Four days will quickly steep themselves in night: Four nights will quickly dream away the time : And then the moon, like to a sliver bow New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night Of our solemnities... THESEE Et maintenant, belle Hippolyta, voici notre heure nuptiale qui approche à grands pas. Dans quatre heureux jours apparaîtra la nouvelle lune. Elle étire mes désirs ainsi qu'une marâtre ou une douairière qui laisse se dessécher le revenu d'un jeune homme. HIPPOLYTA Quatre jours s'évanouiront vite dans la nuit ; quatre nuits se dissiperont vite dans le rêve ! Alors la lune, comme un arc d'argent qui vient de s'incurver dans le ciel, contemplera la nuit de notre union solennelle. THESEE Va, Philostrate, entraîne aux réjouissances la jeunesse d'Athènes ; éveille l'esprit de la gaîté, agile et bondissant ; renvoie aux funérailles la mélancolie : cette pâle commère ne sied pas à nos festivités... Traduction de Jules Supervielle et Jean-Louis Supervielle.

What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays, considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book explores Shakespeare's dramaturgy, from characters who forget what they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself.

Molecular biology has revolutionized our understanding of animals and their evolution. In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Holland provides an authoritative summary of the modern view of animal life, its origins, and the new classification resulting from DNA studies.