Politique tragique vs. politique comique ? Richard III de Shakespeare et A Game at Chess de Middleton
This article compares the two dramatic genres, looking at the respective political implications of Richard III and A Game at Chess, and reflecting on the historiographical judgments they construct and the possible political affects they arouse in their spectators. The critical historiographic signif...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2022-01-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/11632 |
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| Summary: | This article compares the two dramatic genres, looking at the respective political implications of Richard III and A Game at Chess, and reflecting on the historiographical judgments they construct and the possible political affects they arouse in their spectators. The critical historiographic significance of the two plays lies mainly in the dramaturgic procedures that construct for the audience a generalizing point of view, as well as a process of unveiling. In both cases, the stage performance plays a decisive role. The "comic politics" of A Game at Chess and the "tragic politics" of Richard III differ, however. The former is more of a publication, a revelation than an unveiling. It is not a question of placing the spectator behind the scenes as in Shakespeare's tragedy; nor is it a question of constructing a critical relationship to the historical narrative that is written, but of constructing a critical relationship to the history that is being made. Thus, perhaps one could say that if Richard III is situated upstream of history, Middleton's satirical comedy is situated downstream of it. |
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| ISSN: | 1272-3819 1969-6302 |