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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... death he was any better known to France than France was known to him . Somehow , sometime when Louis XIV was reigning , a copy of his works found its way into the royal library in Paris ; but for many years it remained apparently ...
... death he was any better known to France than France was known to him . Somehow , sometime when Louis XIV was reigning , a copy of his works found its way into the royal library in Paris ; but for many years it remained apparently ...
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... 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 eternal witness to the true glory of our country ... It seemed that nature then took ...
... 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 eternal witness to the true glory of our country ... It seemed that nature then took ...
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... death . As late as 1949 a French scholar commented on the ' incredible lack of boldness ' that had characterised French responses to Shakespeare during the previous fifty years . " The French habitually either automatically prostrated ...
... death . As late as 1949 a French scholar commented on the ' incredible lack of boldness ' that had characterised French responses to Shakespeare during the previous fifty years . " The French habitually either automatically prostrated ...
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... death of Louis IX , the academicians sweltered under court dress and powdered perruques while his old articles of impeachment , recycled into an interminable peroration , were read aloud by d'Alembert , the secretary.13 People in high ...
... death of Louis IX , the academicians sweltered under court dress and powdered perruques while his old articles of impeachment , recycled into an interminable peroration , were read aloud by d'Alembert , the secretary.13 People in high ...
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... death , Shakespeare swept from complete obscurity to illustrious fame . ' They affect for Shakespeare an admiration so partial and so outlandish ' , wrote the marquis de Pompignan of the literary French of the 1780s , ' that not even ...
... death , Shakespeare swept from complete obscurity to illustrious fame . ' They affect for Shakespeare an admiration so partial and so outlandish ' , wrote the marquis de Pompignan of the literary French of the 1780s , ' that not even ...
Contenido
1 | |
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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