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French essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries : "what would France with us?"

Title: French essays on Shakespeare and his contemporaries : "what would France with us?" / edited by Jean-Marie Maguin and Michèle Willems.
Publication: Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1995.

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Description

335 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

The nineteen essays selected for this volume represent typical work concerning Shakespeare and related studies carried out in France over the past fifteen years. Interests run from textual history to drama and theater poetics, myth, and iconography.
The work of directors staging Shakespeare in French, questions of time and space (including scenic space), the reception of music, the interpretation of songs in the theater, the monstrous as concept and metaphor, the changing tensions between language and reality, Homer or historiography as sources of Shakespeare, and the theme of war are other issues addressed.
Some of the essays show the influence of structuralist poetics or poststructuralism; all rely on a thorough knowledge of Renaissance idiom and thought.

Series Statement

International studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries

Uniform Title

International studies in Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

"International Shakespeare Association."

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

Papers translated from French.

Contents

"Travels in the clouds" : metamorphosis, doubt, and reason in the Renaissance / Yves Peyré -- Time and tragic mode in The Duchess of Malfi / Jean-Pierre Maquerlot -- "God gyve you tyme and space": towards a definition of theatrical space in the Tudor interludes / Jean-Paul Debax -- Time and place in Tudor theater: two remarkable achievements, Fulgens and Lucres and Gorboduc / André Lascombes -- Word and action / Jean Michel Déprats -- Music and difference: Elizabethan stage music and its reception / Pierre Iselin -- From text to stage: the interpretation of songs on the Elizabethan stage / Francis Guinle -- Sad stories / Dominique Goy-Blanquet -- Of a monstrous body / Richard Marienstras -- Epics and ethics in 1 Henry IV / Ann Lecercle -- "Women and horses and power and war": worship of Mars from 1 Henry IV to Coriolanus / Michèle Willems -- The lovers of Venice, or The Argonauts' second return: from myth to dramatic representation / Raymond Gardette -- Words and things in All's well that ends well / Franc̦ois Laroque -- Hamlet : the end of the innocence of language or the end of the show? / Pierre Spriet -- Rise and fall of the king of darkness / J.-M. Maguin -- The authenticity of the hecate scenes in Macbeth : arguments and counter-arguments / Henri Suhamy -- Monsters in the literature and spectacles of the English Renaissance : an expression of insecurity / M.T. Jones-Davies -- Baroque space and time in Chapman's tragedy : The conspiracy and tragedy of Byron / Gisèle Venet -- Topography in John Day's plays : The dialectic of topicality and Utopia / Jean-Pierre Villquin.

ISBN

087413532X
9780874135329

LCCN

94031894

OCLC

ocm30973869
30973869
SCSB-2059284

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library