Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

For centuries, people have sought the answer to the question of what the secret of Shakespeare's greatness is. The struggle of passions, powerful temperaments, and contradictory human natures are depicted in his plays with astonishing authenticity and imbued with genuine poetry. Reading Shakespeare's works, we enjoy both wise aphorisms and cascades of witticisms, as well as amusing puns. For world theater, Shakespearean drama has become a peculiar mirror in which human life found reflection in all its fullness, a sentiment strongly felt by V. G. Belinsky when he wrote about 'Hamlet': 'This is you, this is me, this is each of us.' And the more attentively we delve into the works of the great English playwright, the more depths and mysteries we discover within them. This edition includes three of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies in Boris Pasternak's translations: 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Hamlet', and 'Othello'. Inserts feature images (paintings, engravings, and photographs) of foreign and Russian actors known for their roles in productions of Shakespeare's plays: from Richard Burbage, the first performer of the role of the Prince of Denmark, to Vladimir Vysotsky's 'fierce Hamlet'.