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Zusatztext Praise for William Shakespeare: Complete Works: “A feast of literary and historical information.” -The Wall Street Journal Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) is today's most widely known and loved playwright.THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY (RSC) is a world-renowned ensemble theater company in Stratford and London dedicated to bringing the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries to a modern audience.JONATHAN BATE is a professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature at the University of Warwick. A prominent critic, award-winning biographer and broadcaster, Bate's books on Shakespeare include Soul of the Age .ERIC RASMUSSEN, professor of English at the University of Nevada, is one of today's leading textual experts on Shakespeare. Klappentext A continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeare plays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by two brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen Incorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works -the first authoritative, modernized edition of Shakespeare's First Folio in more than 300 years-this remarkable series of individual plays combines Jonathan Bate's insightful critical analysis with Eric Rasmussen's textual expertise. Act 1 Scene 1 running scene 1 Enter Barnardo and Francisco, two sentinels Meeting BARNARDO Who´s there? FRANCISCO Nay, answer me: stand and unfold yourself. BARNARDO Long live the king! FRANCISCO Barnardo? BARNARDO He. FRANCISCO You come most carefully upon your hour. BARNARDO ´Tis now struck twelve: get thee to bed, Francisco. FRANCISCO For this relief much thanks: ´tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart. BARNARDO Have you had quiet guard? FRANCISCO Not a mouse stirring. BARNARDO Well, goodnight. If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, The rivals of my watch, bid them make haste. Enter Horatio and Marcellus FRANCISCO I think I hear them.- Stand! Who´s there? HORATIO Friends to this ground. MARCELLUS And liegemen to the Dane. FRANCISCO Give you goodnight. MARCELLUS O, farewell, honest soldier. Who hath relieved you? FRANCISCO Barnardo has my place. Give you goodnight. Exit Francisco MARCELLUS Holla! Barnardo! BARNARDO Say, what, is Horatio there? HORATIO A piece of him. BARNARDO Welcome, Horatio: welcome, good Marcellus. MARCELLUS What, has this thing appeared again tonight? BARNARDO I have seen nothing. MARCELLUS Horatio says ´tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight twice seen of us: Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night, That if again this apparition come, He may approve our eyes and speak to it. HORATIO Tush, tush, ´twill not appear. BARNARDO Sit down awhile, And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story, What we two nights have seen. HORATIO Well, sit we down, And let us hear Barnardo speak of this. BARNARDO Last night of all, When yond same star that´s westward from the pole Had made his course t´illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one- MARCELLUS Peace, break thee off. Enter the Ghost Look where it comes again. BARNARDO In the same figure like the king that´s dead. MARCELLUS Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio. BARNARDO Looks it not like the king? Mark it, Horatio. HORATIO Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder. BARNARDO It would be spoke to. MARCELLUS Question it, Horatio. HORATIO W...
