Histoire de la réception et histoire du livre by Roger Chartier

“…The analysis then highlights the importance of developments within the field of book history, which branched out into the history of graphic culture with Petrucci and into the sociology of texts with McKenzie. …”
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Richard III palimpseste.  Richard III de Verhelst mis en scène par Lagarde : l'ellipse du champ de bataille by Florence March

“…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. …”
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Réflexions sur l’appropriation du théâtre historique élisabéthain par la scène britannique contemporaine : usages de Macbeth dans Thirteenth Night de Howard Brenton (1981) et Dunsi... by Line Cottegnies

“…The echoes of Macbeth suggest an ambivalent perspective on history, between the hope that it might be possible to learn from the past to despair at the endless return of the same, as conflicts seem to only lead to a short-lived resolution. …”
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