L’Histoire culbutée : Shakespeare et ses jeux de mots
Out of ancient history and the history of England, Shakespeare created a parallel world of obscene tableaux, shows, and stories, through a selective and meticulous orchestration of the signifying at play in any language. In his plays, as meanings multiply regardless of the official plot line, they f...
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| description | Out of ancient history and the history of England, Shakespeare created a parallel world of obscene tableaux, shows, and stories, through a selective and meticulous orchestration of the signifying at play in any language. In his plays, as meanings multiply regardless of the official plot line, they feed a clandestine sub-text which requires that the audience pay special attention to sounds, echos, and repetitions, whether past or yet to come. How text and sub-text relate is debatable: was it all done “for recreation sake” (as Falstaff will have it) by a playwright who was also an actor? Or, painfully aware that time was “out of joint”, was he on a crusade against a national history scarred at the time by wars and puritanism? His treatment of history through punning may also reflect the Renaissance art of “playing seriously” (serio ludere). |
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