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2 février 2018
- handle: 10670/1.70nb5b
- isbn: 9782878542394
- eisbn: 9782878548570
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Renaissance technique esthétiques nouveauté inventions Literature, British Isles Medieval & Renaissance Studies LIT019000 DSBDSujets proches
Plays Stage Drama, Modern Plays Drama--PhilosophyCiter ce document
Jonathan Pollock, « Le théâtre et la peste : les dramaturges élisabéthains revus par Antonin Artaud », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.70nb5b
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Antonin Artaud is one of the first writers who became interested in Elizabethan drama outside Shakespeare and who identified the specific mélange of humour and cruelty that characterizes it. Besides, he was to make such mélange the foundation of his own drama when he wrote The Cenci, a play which in its evocation of XVIth century Italy returned to a main source of Elizabethan inspiration. Artaud had also planned to direct The Revenger's Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, the anonymous Arden of Faversham and Tis Pity She's a Whore, by John Ford and, even if these particular projects never materialized, they prompted a spate of commentary inside his work. Ford's play in particular allowed him to establish a link between the plague, with its specific effects, and drama as he saw it. How then does Artaud's vision allow us to renew our appraisal of those plays?