PHEBE: Think not I love him, though I ask for him;
‘Tis but a peevish boy; yet he talks well.
But what care I for words? Yet words do well
When he that speaks them pleases those that hear.
It is a pretty youth; not very pretty;
But sure he’s proud; and yet his pride becomes him.
He’ll make a proper [...]
As you like it by William Shakespeare
Treballs d’amor perdut (3); William Shakespeare
Princesa:
Mireu, ara se’m salva la bellesa
pel mèrit que faig! Oh, l’heretgia
en la bellesa, pròpia d’aquests temps!
Mà que dóna, per molt lletja que sigui,
s’endurà sempre un bell elogi.
Però, de pressa, deu-me l’arc! I ara
la generositat veureu com mata.
I, com a coseqüencia,
tirar bé serà fer-ho malament.
Però, tirant jo, salvaré el meu crèdit.
Si erro el tret, em direu [...]
An Ideal Husband: Oscar Wilde
MABEL CHILTERN: Well, Tommy has proposed to me again. Tommy really does nothing but propose to me. He proposed to me last night in the music-room, when I was quite unprotected, as there was an elaborate trio going on. I didn’t dare to make the smallest repartee, I need hardly tell you. If I had, [...]
Medea; Heiner Müller
Medea:
Els estimes, Jasó, els teus fills?
vols recuperar-los, els teus fills?
Són teus. ¿Què és el que em podria pertànyer a mi, la teva esclava?
Tot en mi és per tu, instrument tota jo.
Per tu he matat i he parit,
Jo la teva gossa, la teva puta, jo
Jo els barrots de l´escala de la teva glòria,
ungida amb les defecacions [...]
Cigarrillo; Leah Ryan
(Julie, al final de la veintena está pensando en una visita a su familia)
Julie: Estoy tumbada en la cama y fumo un cigarrillo. Intento levantarme y fumo otro cigarrillo y como aun no consigo levantarme me fumo otro cigarrillo. El reloj dice que son las siete y media y no tengo ni idea de lo [...]
Man and Superman
By Bernard Shaw
TANNER: You, Tavy, are an artist: that is, you have a purpose as absorbing and as unscrupulous as a woman’s purpose…. The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. To women he is [...]
Caesar and Cleopatra
By Bernard Shaw
CAESAR: If one man in all the world can be found, now or forever, to know that you did wrong, that man will have either to conquer the world as I have, or be crucified by it. [The uproar in the streets again reaches them.] Do you hear? These knockers at your gate [...]
Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller
Willy: Business is definitely business, but just listen for a minute. You don’t understand this.When I was a boy— eighteen, nineteen—I was already on the road. And there was a question in my mind as to whether selling had a future for me. Because in those days I had a yearning to go to Alaska. [...]
Pillars of society by Henrik Ibsen
BERNICK: I find I can talk to you as I can to no one else; I shall conceal nothing from you. I had my share in spreading the rumour. You must not condemn me without remembering how matters stood at the time. As I told you yesterday, I came home to find my mother involved [...]
