V knige predstavleny velikie tragedii U. Shekspira - Ð"«OtelloÐ"», Ð"«Korol LirÐ"», Ð"«MakbetÐ"» - v perevodakh luchshikh rossiiskikh masterov slova - T. Shchepkinoi-Kupernik i B. Pasternaka. Sozdannye chetyre s lishnim veka nazad eti bessmertnye tvoreniia porazhaiut svoei aktualnostiu, ved na ikh stranitcakh burliat vechnye chelovecheskie strasti: liubov i kovarstvo, nezhnost i nenavist, strakh i reshitelnost, tshcheslavie i smirenie. Ð"«Tcelyi mir im zavoevan: ego pobedy prochnei pobed Napoleonov i Tcezarei. Velichaishii poet novogo mira sozdan dlia vechnosti - i budet zhit vechno!Ð"» (I.S. Turgenev)