L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine

Twentieth century dramatic transpositions of medieval matter, particularly Arthurian one, give various works which imply numerous questions about the aesthetic or ideological range of this choice of the Middle Ages. Indeed, there is a real difficulty, if not a wager, to translate medieval novels on...

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Main Author: Michèle Gally
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2010-11-01
Series:Itinéraires
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/1859
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L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine
Itinéraires
drama
Dorst
generic transposition
Middle Ages
modernism
author_facet Michèle Gally
author_sort Michèle Gally
title L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine
title_short L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine
title_full L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine
title_fullStr L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine
title_full_unstemmed L’aura du Moyen Âge sur la scène contemporaine
title_sort l’aura du moyen âge sur la scène contemporaine
publisher Pléiade (EA 7338)
series Itinéraires
issn 2427-920X
publishDate 2010-11-01
description Twentieth century dramatic transpositions of medieval matter, particularly Arthurian one, give various works which imply numerous questions about the aesthetic or ideological range of this choice of the Middle Ages. Indeed, there is a real difficulty, if not a wager, to translate medieval novels on a stage. We shall consider a theatrical experiment of a present topic: the settings of Merlin or the devastated country (written in 1981 by the German playwright Tankred Dorst) by Lavelli in 2005 and Dana in 2009. The dramaturgical choices of each producer, the differences between the creations and the text of the play, allow us to ponder on relations carried by contemporary artists with the idea of the Middle Ages.
topic drama
Dorst
generic transposition
Middle Ages
modernism
url http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/1859
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