11 research outputs found

    “Underwor(l)ds”, l'Ancien et le Nouveau : de Virgile à Ben Jonson

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    This piece explores, first, the transition to modernity as this is marked by the emergence into the lexis of the word underworld and the elaboration of its semantic boundaries from the first decade of the XVIIth century to the last decade of the XXth; second, the anticipation of the modern sense of the word (to denote the urban criminal class) in the work of Ben Jonson. Associating the universe of the world-as-spectacle with the Virgilian place of the dead from the outset of his career as a playwright (in the 1590s) Jonson subsequently inflects this association in the direction of the modern sense of underworld (without using the word itself), as critics' use of the word to characterise the universe of Bartholomew Fair (1614) signals. By tracing the development of this association in his writing we thus trace the emergence of an ideologically loaded topography of the “new world” of modern, urban London

    Scenes of Translation in Jonson and Shakespeare: Poetaster, Hamlet

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    Esthétiques de la nouveauté à la Renaissance

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    À la Renaissance, les inventions techniques comme la boussole, les lunettes ou l'imprimerie, mais aussi les cabinets de curiositĂ©, les monstres, les merveilles ou les grotesques fascinent les esprits. Les amateurs de surprise et de nouveautĂ© se recrutent aussi bien parmi les souverains et leur cour que parmi les lettrĂ©s, les humanistes, ou dans le peuple Ă©pris de fĂȘtes et de spectacles. Les rĂ©cits de voyages, les jardins, les rĂ©alisations architecturales qui se multiplient alors donnent l'impression d'un foisonnement de choses inĂ©dites, voire insolites, oĂč l'innovation, mais aussi l'exagĂ©ration, ont leur part. Avec Shakespeare, Ben Jonson et bien d'autres, la scĂšne Ă©lisabĂ©thaine va s'efforcer de rĂ©pondre Ă  ce goĂ»t grandissant pour la nouveautĂ©, dont elle donne parfois une image grinçante et satirique. Au XXe siĂšcle, aprĂšs la remise en cause du drame bourgeois par Antonin Artaud qui redĂ©couvre en France le thĂ©Ăątre Ă©lisabĂ©thain, les mises en scĂšne audacieuses de Patrice ChĂ©reau (Hamlet) ou de Peter Sellars (Le Marchand de Venise) font apparaĂźtre la nouveautĂ© de ces textes. Les diffĂ©rents parcours proposĂ©s dans ce recueil sont Ă  lire comme autant d'invitations Ă  voir ailleurs ou autrement, Ă  s'ouvrir Ă  ce qui apparaĂźt bien comme autant d'expĂ©riences et d'esthĂ©tiques de la nouveautĂ©. Ce terme parfois dĂ©criĂ© Ă  la Renaissance prend donc ici tout son sens et ouvre clairement la voie vers la modernitĂ©

    Wordplay in Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Accusation of Derrida's “Logical Phallusies”

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    That “Derrida's writing borders on being unreadable” has been maintained by several academics, journalists and students. This essay considers this reaction to Jacques Derrida's writing in relation to a broader history of wordplay and puns. Using Shakespeare's Hamlet as a starting point followed by the infamous letter to The Times that accused Derrida of “logical phallusies”, it argues that if Derrida's writing does border on being unreadable, then, this is the condition of all writing. The essay suggests that rather than suppressing the spectres of Derrida in Shakespeare studies, we should welcome back the aspects of his work that help us to “read and write in the space or heritage of Shakespeare”
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