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Comme Il Vous Plaira
Comme Il Vous Plaira
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Traduit par François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (1787 - 1874), historien français et homme d'État. Publié en 1862. Selon Wikipedia: "Comme vous l'aimez est une comédie pastorale par William Shakespeare censé avoir été écrit en 1599 ou au début 1600 et d'abord publié dans le premier folio, 1623. La première exécution de la pièce est incertaine, bien qu'une performance Comme à son habitude, elle suit son héroïne Rosalind alors qu'elle fuit la persécution dans la cour de son oncle, accompagnée de sa cousine Celia et Touchstone le bouffon de cour, pour trouver la sécurité et éventuellement l'amour dans la forêt de Arden."

LanguageFrançais
PublisherSeltzer Books
Release dateMar 1, 2018
ISBN9781455394791
Comme Il Vous Plaira
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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest playwright the world has seen. He produced an astonishing amount of work; 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and 5 poems. He died on 23rd April 1616, aged 52, and was buried in the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I liked "As You Like It" quite a bit. It has similarities to other works by Shakespeare -- characters in disguise and falling in love at the first glance. But it's also very charming and a nice little story, making for a fun read. Lots of familiar quotes in this one too!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    “As you Like It” is a beloved Shakespeare play. it is easier to follow and understand as some his other works. There is the reintroduction of Rosalind and Orlando, who are deeply in love, but Orland does not recognize her because she is a boy. The story tells of a series of marriages and infidelities and mixed with love. In the story Rosalinda is so realistic when dressed as a boy because of he exile, that a young shepherdess is a bit taken with him/her). As usual, this volume is filled with quotes we will recognize and more than a bit of tongue and cheek humor. It is a light play for Shakespeare, and very enjoyable. This is a good piece for young people to read if they are not familiar with Shakespeare. There are also fairly good video productions of the play.I have the Pelican library of Shakespeare books and find them extremely easy to follow. With the introductions and foot notes well developed, it makes the reading more enjoyable and understandable for me personally.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A strange play, but a very lovable one.Why strange, you ask? Let me catalog its oddities. Both of the villains undergo sudden changes of heart ... offstage. Both leading couples fall in love ... on their first meeting. In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare’s other comedy set primarily in a forest, such happenings are explained as the results of magic, the maneuverings of mischievous fairies. The only supernatural figure in As You Like It is Hymen, who, in one of the play’s oddest turns, appears at the end to explain everything and bless the four marriages. It’s unclear exactly why he is needed; Rosalind seems to have orchestrated everything perfectly up until then.And why lovable? In a word: its heroine. Rosalind is the true gem of the piece, and is probably the closest Shakespeare came to writing a female role comparable Hamlet, although of course this is in a completely different genre.* She has more lines than any other woman in the canon, but it’s not sheer quantity that makes her material so winning. She’s charming in a quicksilver fashion, and it’s clear from her scenes with Orlando that she enjoys make-believe playacting. But lest you think she is a mere trickster, I must stress has wonderful moments of vulnerability, too.As far as Shakespeare’s young swains go, Orlando comes off pretty well. He doesn’t threaten to rape the woman who loves him (a la Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream), he isn’t an opportunistic adventurer (as Bassanio is in The Merchant of Venice), and he doesn’t listen to slurs against his lady (unlike Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing). He writes awful poetry, it’s true, but in prose he is almost as witty as his beloved Rosalind, and I picture him as having an easy smile and laugh. Of the other characters, Jacques is the standout—a melancholic personality who cannot find a place in the play’s the happy ending.I’ve watched two video versions of this play, each very different from the other. The 1978 BBC adaptation looks as if an enterprising child filmed it in his backyard using a camcorder, somehow enlisting the aid of some of Britain’s finest actors. Richard Pasco steals the show as an unkempt and bleary-eyed Jacques—I really didn’t understand the character until I watched his performance—while Helen Mirren makes a statuesque Rosalind and roguish Ganymede. I didn’t care for the more recent Kenneth Branagh film when I first saw it on account of its Japanese setting, but now that I’ve studied the play in an academic environment and noticed just how strongly the theme of usurpation figures in the plot, I understand what he was going for. And I like how he tries to smooth out the creases of this admittedly problematic play; for instance, he actually stages the lion attack, making Oliver’s reformation a bit more believable.Read As You Like It and go on a holiday in a verdant wonderland. Ignore some of the oddities and focus on your guide, one of Shakespeare’s greatest heroines.* Looking at Wikipedia’s chronology, I see that As You Like It and Hamlet may have been written back-to-back, so perhaps the similarity is not coincidental. Shakespeare must have had fabulous at his disposal during this period, considering the virtuosic parts he wrote for them!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I liked this play, which I had thought was something else when I first started it! I found the comedy to be of the milder type of making me smile rather than laugh but still fun. There are several famous speeches, most memorable being the one about the seven stages of life.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    I fear I'm really not a Shakespeare fan: I can never 'get into' his plays. I certainly didn't 'get into' As You Like It. Studying it, so perhaps I'll come to appreciate it more.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This is a comedy with many different characters such asOrlando, Rosalind, Toushstone, Jaques, Phoebe, and Silvius. This play is composed of many clever personalities, including a boy named Oliver who will not share his father’s recently inherited wealth with his brother Orlando. Other characters include Duke Senior, usurped of his throne, Rosalind, Touchstone, and Jaques.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    So great! Absolutely love it!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Fun. Rosalind plays the romantics well and Shakespeare made a happy ending even beyond what was necessary. Jaques, Act II: "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts."
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    My favorite Shakespeare play of all--for the humor and for Shakespeare's heroine, Rosalind
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    The New Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's works are my favorites. With ample introductory material, long notes at the end, and short language notes on the lefthand pages to match the text on the right, they are easy to read whether you need to check the notes or not.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Given as part of the course-work for BADA Summer 1999 in Oxford. The (very useful and well-researched) introduction is almost as long as the play itself! Loads of footnotes to help comprehension for the lay-reader.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Orlando's older brother, Oliver, has been trying to kill him, and his newest idea is to have a wrestler take him out. But then Orlando not only wins but catches the eye of the daughter of the banished Duke, with consequences Oliver could never have foreseen.Though I have all of Shakespeare's plays on my "life list" of books I would like to read, I only moved this one in particular up the list because I saw it performed when I was in London a couple of weeks ago. It's a very interesting experience reading a play that I have once seen performed, and it really brings home the fact that plays are meant to be seen rather than read. Overall, while I enjoyed reading the original and imagining the possibilities of alternative interpretations of lines, they're certainly lacking in the personality that the actor/actress brings to the role. Some of the lines that seem confusing reading just make more sense with actions to go with them. It was also interesting to note that while the production really showed me how bawdy some of the lines were, the notes in the play that I read were generally unhelpful in this area (which, depending on your point of view, could be a good thing). I probably wouldn't read the play again, but I would watch another performance
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    As You Like It follows Rosalind, the daughter of a Duke, as she escapes persecution in her Uncle’s court with her cousin Celia. They take refuge in the forest, waiting for a time when Rosalind’s father gains power. Before leaving however, she has just enough time to fall in love with Orlando, who fortunately ends up in the same forest. I loved this one; it reminded me so much of The Tempest. There are two brothers who, just like in The Tempest, are both Dukes. Their daughters are central to the plot, falling in love for the first time, just as Miranda does in The Tempest. The play includes so many of Shakespeare’s finest elements. There are women pretending to be men, women falling in love with those “men” and men confiding their love to those “men” without knowing who they really are. Confused? Don’t be, it’s all good fun. In one section a young man goes on and on about how he’s in love. He tells the older man who is his companion that there’s no way he could possibly understand, because he’s so old. I love how Shakespeare often pokes fun at the naïveté of the young. They believe no one has ever gone through what I’m going through right now. The play also includes the famous “All the world’s a stage” passage. I love reading one of his plays for the first time and stumbling upon one of those wonderful lines. It’s always a treat. I read this just after finishing Othello and it complemented the tragedy so well. It provided the comedic balance, cross dressing, falling in love, and mistaken identities that I craved after reading such a downer. “Do you not know I am a woman? When I think, I must speak.”
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I think I read this at University...but the fact I can't remember it speaks volumes. I'm currently teaching this and found it quick and easy to read. But Shakespeare was never meant to be read was he? I'd like to see this of course. It would be hilarious. Hopefully soon somewhere in Sydney there will be a production and I look forward to it.I was particurly interested in The Forest of Arden representing how primal and animal selves, the natural world where still a heirachy exists. Shakespeare obviously writing in a Christian country steeped in Pagan lore and practice. A man so far ahead of his time with gender awareness and commentary on social status and abuse of power. Got to love the big William.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Nice little comedy with lots of mistaken/disguised identities and love interests, which we later saw played in King’s Park. Not 'great' literature, but a good romp. Contains the "all the world's a stage" line. Read January 2008.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm not going to go into the complicated plot on this one, but it's the one with Rosalind and Orlando, where Rosalind, for her own mysterious reasons, pretends to be a boy and flirts with Orlando, who is extremely dense, and never figures out that she is a girl.Forget about whether this is believable or not. (It's not.) In fact, the whole plot is pretty darn farfetched. It is, however, funny in some places and thoughtful in other places. Like all Shakespeare, it's much better on stage than on paper, but it was still a fun read.What I really enjoyed about the edition I read is that it had photos from the Royal Shakespeare Academy and others of the play, including a very young Alan Rickman as Jaques and a ludicrously costumed Kenneth Branagh as Touchstone. Very funny!
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This has some really cute lines, especially from Touchstone, but it is not one of Shakespear's best works in my opinion. Although it probably would be much better to see on stage rather than to read.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I've been made aware that modernists like to write fiction that is basically plot-free, where the point is to entertain with beautiful, glorious language, not to excite or inform. One modernist, John Barth, has argued that what he is doing is more reactionary than modern, that he was merely returning to what masters like Cervantes and Rabelais did. Or, in this case, Shakespeare. He had already written one nearly meta-fictional play, Love's Labour Lost, where witty people did nothing but talk wittily about life. He revised and improved the idea for this play, where a group of people hide in the Forest of Arden and do little but discourse of love and life. I loved it all, but especially the typically plucky heroine and the two polar opposite clowns.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    I haven't either read or seen this play.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    More of Shakespear's drag king fetish; to hetero audiences, light entertainment only notable as the source of the "all the world's a stage" quote.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Fabulous language. "All the world's a stage" is just one of many quotable quotes. Very much a fairy tale, but the wonderful Rosalind and the beautiful words of Shakespeare has made it one of my favorite of his comedies thus far.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I struggled with the language
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    This is a great collection, worthy of a place in the library of any Shakespeare-phile. Rather than just being a glorified book of excerpts, or one of those tacky dimestore books that collect some basic "love" quotes from the Sonnets, 'Shakespeare As You'd Like It' is more like a compendium of phrases and speeches from the Bard's work. The breadth of the collection should be evidenced by the fact that Kennedy has picked 3000 quotes from 15 plays - that's 200 per play on average. Quotes range from entire speeches to phrases and clever retorts, and includes many that are at first elusive or opaque, which means that even the most pretentious intellectual will find some new material to add to their repertoire. Whether you're using this to sound intelligent in conversation or just to have a laugh, this is the way to go.

    I'm not sure whether the promised Volume II (to cover the remaining majority of Shakespeare's canon) was ever released, but I hope so. There are a couple of issues here - I sometimes take argument with Kennedy's footnotes, which I don't think are always accurate in their translation - but for the most part this is a collection far more worthy than you might think at face value.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I recently ordered this L.A. Theater Works audio production for work and couldn't resist the temptation of having James Marsters reading Shakespeare in my ears. The production is excellent and while the physical comedy that comes with cross-dressing is obviously missing, the actors do an excellent job of conveying the comedy using just their voices. An excellent way to revisit the Bard.

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Comme Il Vous Plaira - William Shakespeare

COMME IL VOUS PLAIRA, COMÉDIE PAR WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, TRADUCTION DE M. GUIZOT

published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

Other collections of Shakespeare comedies in French translation (by M. Guizot):

Tout Est Bien Qui Finit Bien    

La Comédie Des Méprises    

Peines D'amour Perdues

Mesure Pour Mesure

Le Marchand De Venise

Les Joyeuses Bourgeoises De Windsor

Le Songe D'une Nuit D'Été

Beaucoup De Bruit Pour Rien

La Méchante Femme Mise À La Raison

Le Jour Des Rois Ou Ce Que Vous Voudrez

Les Deux Gentilshommes De Vérone

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 Ce document est tiré de: OEUVRES COMPLÈTES DE SHAKSPEARE

NOUVELLE ÉDITION ENTIÈREMENT REVUE AVEC UNE ÉTUDE SUR SHAKSPEARE DES NOTICES SUR CHAQUE PIÈCE ET DES NOTES

PARIS A LA LIBRAIRIE ACADÉMIQUE DIDIER ET Cie, LIBRAIRES-ÉDITEURS 35, QUAI DES AUGUSTINS 1863

NOTICE SUR COMME IL VOUS PLAIRA

PERSONNAGES

ACTE PREMIER

SCÈNE I,  Verger, près de la maison d'Olivier.

SCÈNE II,  Plaine devant le palais du duc.

SCÈNE III,  Appartement du palais.

ACTE DEUXIÈME

SCÈNE I,  La forêt des Ardennes.

SCÈNE II,  Appartement du palais du duc usurpateur.

SCÈNE III,  Devant la maison d'Olivier.

SCÈNE IV,  La forêt des Ardennes.

SCÈNE V,  AMIENS, JACQUES et autres paraissent.

SCÈNE VI,  Entrent ORLANDO et ADAM.

SCÈNE VII,  Une autre partie de la forêt.

ACTE TROISIÈME

SCÈNE I,  Appartement du palais.

SCÈNE II,  La forêt.

SCÈNE III,  ROSALINDE, TOUCHSTONE

SCÈNE IV,  Entrent TOUCHSTONE, AUDREY et JACQUES, qui les observe et se tient à l'écart.

SCÈNE V,  On voit une cabane dans le bois.

ACTE QUATRIÈME

SCÈNE I,  Toujours la forêt.

SCÈNE II,  Une autre partie de la forêt.

SCÈNE III,  La forêt.

ACTE CINQUIÈME

SCÈNE I,  Toujours la forêt.

SCÈNE II,  Entrent ORLANDO et OLIVIER.

SCÈNE III,  TOUCHSTONE et AUDREY.

SCÈNE IV,  Une autre partie de la forêt.

NOTICE SUR COMME IL VOUS PLAIRA

Après avoir vu dans Timon d'Athènes un misanthrope farouche, qui fuit dans un désert où il ne cesse de maudire les hommes et d'entretenir la haine qu'il leur a jurée, nous allons faire connaissance avec un ami de la solitude, d'une mélancolie plus douce, qui se permet quelques traits de satire, mais qui plus souvent se contente de la plainte, et critique le monde, inspiré par le seul regret de ne l'avoir pas trouvé meilleur. Retiré dans les bois pour y rêver au doux murmure des ruisseaux et au bruissement du feuillage, Jacques pourrait dire de lui-même comme un poëte de nos jours qui oublie de temps en temps ses sombres dédains:

  I love not man the less, but nature more.                     (CHILDE HAROLD, chant IV.)

  Je n'aime pas moins l'homme, mais j'aime davantage la nature.

Jacques a jadis joui des plaisirs de la société; mais il est désabusé de toutes ses vanités: c'est un personnage tout à fait contemplatif; il pense et ne fait rien, dit Hazlit. C'est le prince des philosophes nonchalants; sa seule passion, c'est la pensée.

Avec ce rêveur aussi sensible qu'original, Shakspeare a réuni dans la forêt des Ardennes, autour du duc exilé, une espèce de cour arcadienne, dans laquelle le bon chevalier de la Manche aurait été sans doute heureux de se trouver, lorsque, dans l'accès d'un goût pastoral, il voulait se métamorphoser en berger Quichotis et faire de son écuyer le berger Pansino. Les arcadiens de Shakspeare ont conservé quelque chose de leurs moeurs chevaleresques, et ses bergères nous charment les unes par la vérité de leurs moeurs champêtres, et les autres par le mélange de ces moeurs qu'elles ont adoptées, et de cet esprit cultivé qu'elles doivent à leurs premières habitudes. Peut-être trouvera-t-on que Rosalinde, dans la liberté de son langage, profite un peu trop du privilége du costume qui cache son sexe; mais elle aime de si bonne foi, et en même temps avec une gaieté si piquante; le dévouement de son amitié l'ennoblit tellement à nos yeux, sa coquetterie est si franche et si spirituelle, son caquetage est presque toujours si aimable qu'on se sent disposé à lui tout pardonner. Célie, plus silencieuse et plus tendre, forme avec elle un heureux contraste.

L'amour, comme le font les villageois, est peint au naturel dans Sylvius et la dédaigneuse Phébé.

Touchstone, qui est dans son genre un philosophe grotesque, n'est pas l'amoureux le plus fou de la pièce; si pour aimer il choisit la paysanne la plus gauche, et s'il aime en vrai bouffon, ses saillies sur le mariage, l'amour et la solitude sont des traits excellents: il est le seul qu'aucune illusion n'abuse.

Il y a dans cette pièce plus de conversations que d'événements: on y respire en quelque sorte l'air d'un monde idéal, la pièce semble inspirée par la pureté des deux héroïnes, et lorsque les mariages et la conversion subite du duc usurpateur qui forment une espèce de dénoûment vont rappeler les habitants de la forêt des Ardennes dans les habitudes de la vie réelle, si Jacques les abandonne, ce n'est pas dans un caprice morose, mais parce qu'il y a dans ce caractère insouciant et rêveur un besoin de pensées, et peut-être même de regrets vagues, qu'il espère retrouver encore auprès du duc Frédéric, devenu à son tour un solitaire.

On abandonnerait d'autant plus volontiers avec Jacques la fête générale, que Shakspeare, par oubli sans doute, ne nous y montre pas le vieux Adam, ce fidèle serviteur, ce véritable ami d'Orlando, si touchant par son dévouement, ses larmes généreuses et sa noble sincérité.

La fable romanesque de cette pièce fut puisée dans une nouvelle pastorale de Lodge qui était sans doute bien connue du temps de Shakspeare. On y voit Adam dignement récompensé par le prince. Les emprunts que le poëte a faits au romancier sont assez nombreux; mais le caractère de Jacques, ceux de Touchstone et d'Audrey sont de l'invention de Shakspeare.

Le docteur Malone suppose que c'est en 1600 que fut écrite la comédie de Comme il vous plaira; c'est une de celles qui ont le plus enrichi les recueils d'extraits élégants; on y remarquera le fameux tableau de la vie humaine: Le monde est un théâtre, etc., etc.

PERSONNAGES

LE DUC, vivant dans l'exil.

FRÉDÉRIC, frère du duc, et usurpateur de son duché.

AMIENS, } seigneurs qui ont suivi

JACQUES,} le duc dans son exil.

LE BEAU, courtisan à la suite de Frédéric.

CHARLES, son lutteur.

OLIVIER, }

JACQUES, }fils de sir Rowland des

ORLANDO, }Bois.

ADAM,  }serviteurs d'Olivier.

DENNIS,}

TOUCHSTONE, paysan bouffon.

SIR OLIVIER MAR-TEXT, vicaire.

CORIN,    }

SYLVIUS,  }bergers.

WILLIAM, paysan, amoureux d'Audrey.

PERSONNAGE REPRÉSENTANT L'HYMEN.

ROSALINDE, fille du duc exilé.

CÉLIE, fille de Frédéric.

PHÉBÉ, bergère.

AUDREY, jeune villageoise.

SEIGNEURS A LA SUITE DES DEUX DUCS,

PAGES, GARDES-CHASSE, ETC., ETC.

La scène est d'abord dans le voisinage de la maison d'Olivier, ensuite en partie à la cour de l'usurpateur, et en partie dans la forêt des Ardennes.

ACTE PREMIER

 SCÈNE I,  Verger, près de la maison d'Olivier.

Entrent ORLANDO ET ADAM.

 ORLANDO.--Je me rappelle bien, Adam; tel a été mon legs, une misérable somme de mille écus dans son testament; et, comme tu dis, il a chargé mon frère, sous peine de sa malédiction, de me bien élever, et voilà la cause de mes chagrins. Il entretient mon frère Jacques à l'école, et la renommée parle magnifiquement de ses progrès. Pour moi, il m'entretient au logis en paysan, ou pour mieux dire, il me garde ici sans aucun entretien; car peut-on appeler entretien pour un gentilhomme de ma naissance, un traitement qui ne diffère en aucune façon de celui des boeufs à l'étable? Ses chevaux sont mieux traités; car, outre qu'ils sont très-bien nourris, on les dresse au manége; et à cette fin on paye bien cher des écuyers: moi, qui suis son frère, je ne gagne sous sa tutelle que de la croissance: et pour cela les animaux qui vivent sur les fumiers de la basse-cour lui sont aussi obligés que moi; et pour ce néant qu'il me prodigue si libéralement, sa conduite à mon égard me fait perdre le peu de dons réels

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