This essay examines, ecocritically, geocritically, and comparatively, the metaphoric spaces represented in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and in Julian Barnes’ A History of the World in 10½ Chapters—seas, mountains, islands, jungle—to show that these spaces allow for different interpretations, yet they are spaces of individual imagination in both the pl...
Published in Journal of Contemporary Drama in English
This article closely examines two recent works for the stage by British conceptualist theatre-maker Tim Crouch, Total Immediate Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation (2019) and Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel (2022), discussing in particular the manipulative aspects of community formation accentuated in the former and the slight shift in emphasis ...
Proceedings of the SEAA1718 conference "Bookscapes / Pays, pages, paysages" which took place in Strasbourg, Jan. 13-14th, 2023, with the support of SEARCH, IDEA, and ILLE.
This chapter will first discuss Shakespeare’s presence in part of the culture around us and then turn to the past in order to understand the journey that has led the Stratford-born dramatist and poet to become the quintessential figure of the author that he is now. After examining some postmodern theoretical views of Shakespeare, as well as the cur...
« La folie, c’est le déjà-là de la mort » : tout se passe comme si la célèbre formule de Michel Foucault trouvait son illustration parfaite dans le Hamlet de Shakespeare. En mettant en regard les propos décousus d’Ophélie (IV.v) et le récit de sa noyade par Gertrude (IV.vii), deux moments indissociables au point de former un véritable diptyque, on ...
Placé sous le double signe de John Hall, médecin de Stratford-upon-Avon, et des Edward’s Boys, comédiens-collégiens de King Edward VI School dans cette même ville, spécialistes du répertoire anglais de la première modernité, cet article propose quelques scènes médicales dans le théâtre des années 1580–1610. Après un rappel des termes qui désignaien...
This collectively authored position paper discusses “hybrid” Shakespeares in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on productions that offer formal experimentation and transnational perspectives. While their contexts remain regional, they provide an insight into how Shakspeare has been mobilised regionally. The paper consists of four distinct parts,...
L’Hamlet de Shakespeare est une tragédie dans laquelle l’espace semble se replier sur lui-même. Si l’ici du Danemark se réduit à un univers carcéral, est-ce dans un ailleurs qu’il faut rechercher le déploiement d’un paysage ? Cet article commence par montrer que l’ici, qui s’est paradoxalement transformé en terre d’exil pour Hamlet, est figuré par ...
The essay focuses on the 1971 production of William Shakespeare’s rarely staged historical drama Henry V, directed by Czech director Miroslav Macháček at the Prague National Theatre in a new translation by Czech literary historian and translator Břetislav Hodek. Macháček staged the play shortly after the 1968 occupation of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw ...
This essay discusses how productions of Shakespeare’s plays that transcend various geographical, national, and linguistic boundaries have influenced the theatrical-political discourse in East-Central Europe in the twenty-first century. It focuses primarily on the work of four internationally-established directors: Andrei Şerban (Romania), Jan Klata...
