Shakespeare Goes to ParisA&C Black, 2005 M02 1 - 270 páginas It has sometimes been assumed that the difficulty of translating Shakespeare into French has meant that he has had little influence in France. Shakespeare Goes to Paris proves the opposite. Virtually unknown in France in his lifetime, and for well over a hundred years after his death, Shakespeare was discovered in the first half of the eighteenth century, as part of a growing French interest in England. Since then, Shakespeare's impact in France has been enormous. Writers, from Voltaire to Gide, found themsleves baffled, frustrated, mesmerised but overawed by a playwright who broke all the rules of French classical theatre and challenged the primacy of French culture. Attempts to tame and translate him alternated with uncritical idolisation, such as that of Berlioz and Hugo. Changing attitudes to Shakespeare have also been an index of French self-esteem, as John Pemble shows in his sparkingly written book |
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... Beauty , Time , Taste , and Truth itself were no longer always and everywhere the same . Problems deemed settled , debates presumed extinct , revived and became imperi- ous . As Shakespeare moved across frontiers and between languages ...
... Beauty , Time , Taste , and Truth itself were no longer always and everywhere the same . Problems deemed settled , debates presumed extinct , revived and became imperi- ous . As Shakespeare moved across frontiers and between languages ...
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... beauty of Shakespeare is majesty . He is common man and prince . He is king . He is everything he wishes to be . All things considered , when one knows what it is to live , to will , and to create , it is difficult not to feel the ...
... beauty of Shakespeare is majesty . He is common man and prince . He is king . He is everything he wishes to be . All things considered , when one knows what it is to live , to will , and to create , it is difficult not to feel the ...
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... beauty : Between the last years of Cardinal Richelieu and those which followed the death of Louis XIV , there occurred in our arts , our minds , and our manners , as in our government , a general revolution which must serve as an ...
... beauty : Between the last years of Cardinal Richelieu and those which followed the death of Louis XIV , there occurred in our arts , our minds , and our manners , as in our government , a general revolution which must serve as an ...
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John Pemble. models to our children and our grandchildren's children . But this beauty itself presupposes a confidence in the minds that produced it . Classicism found the means to practise Christian wisdom without abandoning the wis ...
John Pemble. models to our children and our grandchildren's children . But this beauty itself presupposes a confidence in the minds that produced it . Classicism found the means to practise Christian wisdom without abandoning the wis ...
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... beauty - of sublimity even . Voltaire translated one such passage - freely , not literally , as he was at pains to explain - for the benefit of the French public : Demeure ; il faut choisir , et passer à l'instant De la vie à la mort ...
... beauty - of sublimity even . Voltaire translated one such passage - freely , not literally , as he was at pains to explain - for the benefit of the French public : Demeure ; il faut choisir , et passer à l'instant De la vie à la mort ...
Contenido
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2 A Genius in the Kingdom of Taste | 17 |
3 Stranger within the Gates | 43 |
4 A Story without an Ending | 69 |
5 Desdemonas Handkerchief | 93 |
6 His Hour upon the Stage | 119 |
7 The Trumpets of Fortinbras | 141 |
8 Waiting for Shakespeare | 165 |
9 The Metamorphosis of Envy | 185 |
Notes | 209 |
Index | 231 |
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