Le théâtre baroque du corps démembré dans The Duchess of Malfi

The Duchess of Malfi teems with images of dismembered bodies which form the basis of Webster’s specific macabre poetics. The play is haunted by body parts, at the levels of both plot and imagery. This peculiar aesthetics can be seen as a symptom of a worldview in crisis, in which the correspondences...

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Main Author: Line Cottegnies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2019-01-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/6641