Modernité, représentation de l’histoire et présentisme dans le théâtre shakespearien
This article explores the links between modernity and presentism in the work of Shakespeare and of some of his fellow Elizabethans, as well as in the writings of the most avant-garde of contemporary literary critics. It stresses the paradoxical nature of the notion of “modernity”, which questions it...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
| Published: |
Pléiade (EA 7338)
2010-12-01
|
| Series: | Itinéraires |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/1730 |
| Summary: | This article explores the links between modernity and presentism in the work of Shakespeare and of some of his fellow Elizabethans, as well as in the writings of the most avant-garde of contemporary literary critics. It stresses the paradoxical nature of the notion of “modernity”, which questions its own values endlessly. The notion invites us to investigate the complex dialectic of the old and the new both in Shakespeare’s time and in our own. The conclusion reached is that the current turn to presentism in Shakespearean criticism is seriously misguided. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2427-920X |