Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille
Flemish playwright Peter Verhelst's adaptation of Richard III - as staged by French director Ludovic Lagarde at the Avignon Festival in 2007 - deletes the entire last act of the play, the act that, in the Shakespearean original, dramatises the battle of Bosworth. This omission, I wish to argue,...
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| description | Flemish playwright Peter Verhelst's adaptation of Richard III - as staged by French director Ludovic Lagarde at the Avignon Festival in 2007 - deletes the entire last act of the play, the act that, in the Shakespearean original, dramatises the battle of Bosworth. This omission, I wish to argue, crystallises - in the space between page and stage - the choice of what I call an "aesthetic of the suture", or rather of the impossibility of the suture, which I offer as a dialectical metaphor for the relationship between hypo- and hyper-texts. Since, in Shakespeare's history plays, the representation of war offers a systematic source of metatheatre, I will focus for my analysis of this production on Verhelst's and Lagarde's alternative metatheatrical strategies, in the absence of an actual battlefield, for presenting the text's "blood narrative". |
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| spelling | doaj-art-495cc5c1b5da4f86a126242a0abda7382025-01-30T13:47:36ZengCentre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"Sillages Critiques1272-38191969-63022014-06-011810.4000/sillagescritiques.4014Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de batailleFlorence MarchFlemish playwright Peter Verhelst's adaptation of Richard III - as staged by French director Ludovic Lagarde at the Avignon Festival in 2007 - deletes the entire last act of the play, the act that, in the Shakespearean original, dramatises the battle of Bosworth. This omission, I wish to argue, crystallises - in the space between page and stage - the choice of what I call an "aesthetic of the suture", or rather of the impossibility of the suture, which I offer as a dialectical metaphor for the relationship between hypo- and hyper-texts. Since, in Shakespeare's history plays, the representation of war offers a systematic source of metatheatre, I will focus for my analysis of this production on Verhelst's and Lagarde's alternative metatheatrical strategies, in the absence of an actual battlefield, for presenting the text's "blood narrative".https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4014adaptationShakespearepalimpsestAvignon FestivalLudovic LagardePeter Verhelst |
| spellingShingle | Florence March Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille Sillages Critiques adaptation Shakespeare palimpsest Avignon Festival Ludovic Lagarde Peter Verhelst |
| title | Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille |
| title_full | Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille |
| title_fullStr | Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille |
| title_full_unstemmed | Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille |
| title_short | Richard III palimpseste. Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille |
| title_sort | richard iii palimpseste richard iii de verhelst mis en scene par lagarde l ellipse du champ de bataille |
| topic | adaptation Shakespeare palimpsest Avignon Festival Ludovic Lagarde Peter Verhelst |
| url | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4014 |
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