José Martret (Palma de Mallorca, 1971) utiliza Macbeth como base para hacer una obra de teatro propia: M.B.I.G. (estrenada el 20 de noviembre de 2013 y publicada en 2014). Con un formato inmersivo, una estructura metateatral y una estética posmoderna de tintes fandom y relacionada con productos culturales de masas, como la serie de televisión Mad M...
Shakespeare’s King Henry V is often portrayed and staged as a play not only about the glory, but also about the tragedy of war. That such conflicting interpretations came to be so repeatedly attached to the story of how the second English monarch of the House of Lancaster invaded France and won the battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War ...
Published in Theatrical Colloquia
This article proposes, explains and describes an original method called Queering Drama, which is the result of this article’s author one decade of research. Queering Drama is not just a theoretical work hypothesis, but also a practical performing method of going beyond limits by Queering the characters of any classic play (the Queering Drama method...
Published in Theatrical Colloquia
Hamlet is the play that has ignited the most numerous polemics, and about the Prince of Denmark and his madness, may it be considered real or acted out, thousands of pages have been written. “Hamlet is the absolute character. No other author has ever managed to create something with such a spectacular status. He is an enigma, the only one that has ...
Published in Gender Studies
Since The Taming of the Shrew is a particularly ambiguous play, its interpretation is predictably vulnerable to ideological excesses. The author argues that feminist criticism often exploits rather than explains the text, illustrates the techniques that are typically employed in slanting its meaning, and compares various interpretations in order to...
Published in Romanian Journal of English Studies
Critics belonging to cultural materialism consider that Shakespeare’s work has its own political dimension by demystifying specific forms of power. The paper deals with the way Shakespeare’s three great tragedies reveal how the authoritarian power could function through terror based on violence and dictatorship, and the abuse of that power in the w...
Published in Lexicographica
The paper deals with a description of new specialized Shakespeare reference books belonging to English cultural heritage lexicography (dictionaries of characters, quotations, proverbs, guides, companions). The main accent is made on LSP titles published by Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries, describing terminology of different subject fields found in S...
Archival evidence reveals that Shakespeare’s works were read, annotated and extracted by their early readers. The interpretation of this evidence poses a number of methodological problems, which will be first highlighted. Then, we shall try to paint a picture (as accurate as possible) of who these readers were and how they read ‘their’ Shakespeare....
Cet article trace des liens entre des moralités de langue française du XVIe siècle de confession protestante et le théâtre pré-moderne anglais. Il se concentre sur le personnage et la faculté de la Conscience pour mettre en valeur des mises en scène de la théologie des réformateurs avec son accentuation du rôle du "cœur" individuel comme site du re...
Resumo Este artigo faz uma exploração de utopias letradas transmitidas ao longo de século XVI e início do XVII, enfocando um elemento específico das elucubrações humanistas: a ficção de encontros utópicos entre os mundos antigo e novo na Utopia de Thomas Morus, na Tempestade de Shakespeare e os Ensaios de Michel de Montaigne. Esses ‘encontros’ são,...
