ABSTRACT: This article seeks to present the different languages (emblems, Renaissance translations of classical myths, biblical exegesis) that inform the images of monsters which, as hybrid creatures blending human and animal characteristics, serve a dramatic function in Shakespeare’s King Lear. It means to question the ways in which the play links filial ingratitude with female monstrosity and Lear’s madness. Tracing the classical and medieval lineage of the monstrous bestiary (serpent, tiger, vulture) in King Lear and connecting it to emblematic readings of Shakespeare’s time, it explores how Shakespeare provides a dynamic characterisation of Goneril and Regan through their bestialisation. This study of teratogenesis then questions the no...
If scholarship devoted to the influence of emblematics on Cervantes is a relatively new field, the s...
International audienceMimesis, the art of imitating the real world on the stage, is all the more dif...
une photographie d'un relief du XI-XII siècleInternational audienceThis article aims to examine a nu...
International audienceThis article seeks to present the different languages (emblems, Renaissance tr...
ABSTRACT: An emblem is a witty combination of various texts and one image which delivers a moral mes...
This project employs an interdisciplinary combination of mythology and medicine to interrogate depic...
Scylla, a mermaid and a Gorgon, three hybrids inherited from classical antiquity, are respectively a...
This thesis argues that the view of human nature which emerges from Shakespeare's plays is essential...
In his essay “Monster Culture (Seven Theses),” Jeffrey J. Cohen defines and deconstructs textual mon...
English drama spearheaded by William Shakespeare, is dominated by the Post-Classical Renaissance. Pr...
Edgar’s disguise in King Lear draws upon a popular early modern figure, the Bedlam beggar. This art...
This article reviews famous monsters in Western literature that reveal a hidden humanity or affinity...
Written in the early 1600s, King Lear, an early modern tragedy with the human condition as its main ...
The present paper aims at to discuss the use of folktales in some notable plays of William Shakespea...
William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist in the world. He has produced a lot of literary works ...
If scholarship devoted to the influence of emblematics on Cervantes is a relatively new field, the s...
International audienceMimesis, the art of imitating the real world on the stage, is all the more dif...
une photographie d'un relief du XI-XII siècleInternational audienceThis article aims to examine a nu...
International audienceThis article seeks to present the different languages (emblems, Renaissance tr...
ABSTRACT: An emblem is a witty combination of various texts and one image which delivers a moral mes...
This project employs an interdisciplinary combination of mythology and medicine to interrogate depic...
Scylla, a mermaid and a Gorgon, three hybrids inherited from classical antiquity, are respectively a...
This thesis argues that the view of human nature which emerges from Shakespeare's plays is essential...
In his essay “Monster Culture (Seven Theses),” Jeffrey J. Cohen defines and deconstructs textual mon...
English drama spearheaded by William Shakespeare, is dominated by the Post-Classical Renaissance. Pr...
Edgar’s disguise in King Lear draws upon a popular early modern figure, the Bedlam beggar. This art...
This article reviews famous monsters in Western literature that reveal a hidden humanity or affinity...
Written in the early 1600s, King Lear, an early modern tragedy with the human condition as its main ...
The present paper aims at to discuss the use of folktales in some notable plays of William Shakespea...
William Shakespeare is the greatest dramatist in the world. He has produced a lot of literary works ...
If scholarship devoted to the influence of emblematics on Cervantes is a relatively new field, the s...
International audienceMimesis, the art of imitating the real world on the stage, is all the more dif...
une photographie d'un relief du XI-XII siècleInternational audienceThis article aims to examine a nu...