Dominique Goy-Blanquet

The interaction of poetry and politics has shaped Joan into a transnational myth dedicated to the most contradictory causes. No other character has inspired a more impressive list of writers, but no other myth possesses the malleability required to serve rival camps. Whatever their distortions of fact for art's sake, these famed authors deployed an extensive knowledge of known records. The quality of the exchanges between the best creative and philosophical minds of preceding centuries, their capacity for reading, range of interests, literary judgment, critical shrewdness, all offer priceless models of investigation for our times. A close inquiry into the makings of the legendary heroine brings to light various false impressions still endorsed today by a number of noteworthy historians and literary critics. This collection of essays, updated for the English language edition, follows Joan of Arc in the Western consciousness, throughout the chain of texts, fictions, comments, from the time of her launching into celebrity by Jean Gerson and Christine de Pizan to the most recent stage and film versions. D. Goy-Blanquet investigates the exchanges between England, France and Germany, down to Joan's nationalisation by Michelet. Francoise Michaud-Frejaville studies, through little known seventeenth-century versions, a period of decline in the heroine's popularity, with Jean Chapelain's much decried Pucelle at its lowest ebb. Nadia Margolis picks up the thread from Michelet to explore the background of frenzied political quarrels, and personal self-identifications, for possession of the nineteenth-century heroine, down to their ultimate appropriation, that by the National Front. Jacques Darras questions Peguy and the warmongers who used Joan as a firebrand against pacifists like Jean Jaures, down to the singular fate of Anouilh's L'Alouette, and beyond them the nationalistic strains which continue to infect the French political scene. An essay composed especially for this

Studies in Myth and Politics

Joan of Arc, A Saint for All Reasons

Richard Marienstras

Shakespeare, la Renaissance et l'amitié

Patrice Chéreau (1944 - 2013) was one of France's leading directors in the theatre and on film and a major influence on Shakespearean performance. He is internationally known for memorable productions of both drama and opera. His life-long companionship with Shakespeare began in 1970 when his innovative Richard II made the young director famous overnight and caused his translator to denounce him publicly as an iconoclast, for a production mixing "music-hall, circus, and pankration†?. After this break, Chéreau read Shakespeare's texts assiduously, "line by line and word by word†?, with another renowned poet, Yves Bonnefoy. Drawing on new interviews with many of Chereau's collaborators, this study explores a unique theatre maker's interpretations of Shakespeare in relation to the European tradition and to his wider body of work on stage and film, to establish his profound influence on other producers of Shakespeare.

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Patrice Chéreau

Janet Clare

Migrating Shakespeare offers the first study of the earliest waves of Shakespeare's migration into Europe. Charting the spread of the reception and production of his plays across the continent, it examines how Shakespeare contributed to national cultures and – in some cases – nation building. The chapters explore the routes and cultural networks through which Shakespeare entered European consciousness, from first translations to stage adaptations and critical response. The role of strolling players and actors, translators and printers, poets and dramatists, is chronicled alongside the larger political and cultural movements shaping nations. Each individual case discloses the national, literary and theatrical issues Shakespeare encountered, revealing not only how cultures have accommodated and adapted Shakespeare on their own terms but their interpretative contribution to the texts. Taken collectively the volume addresses key questions about Shakespeare's naturalization or reluctant accommodation within other cultures, inaugurating his present global reach.

First European Encounters, Routes and Networks

Migrating Shakespeare

Drame national et poème universel, Richard II est l'une des pièces les plus ambiguës de Shakespeare, celle qui a inspiré les plus grands auteurs et donné lieu aux interprétations les plus opposées, romantique, monarchiste ou révolutionnaire. Elle occupe une position clé dans son oeuvre, entre Richard III et Hamlet, entre l'histoire et la tragédie. Par approches successives de l'image reine, la couronne vide, cet essai explore les différents cercles de l'histoire de Richard II : conflits d'écoles, sources, modèles littéraires, contexte politique, structure, métaphores et personnages. Dominique GOY-BLANQUET, professeur à l'université de Picardie, membre de l'UPR du C.N.R.S. Arts du Spectacle et du comité de rédaction de La Quinzaine littéraire, a publié Shakespeare's Early History Plays : From Chronicle to Stage (Oxford U. P., 2003) et Shakespeare et l'invention de l'histoire (nouvelle édition, Le Cri, Bruxelles, 2004). Cet ouvrage est le fruit de la collaboration entre les éditions Armand Colin et le Centre National d'Enseignement à Distance, établissement public d'enseignement qui dispense des formations de tous niveaux à plus de 350 000 inscrits répartis dans le monde entier. Cette contribution scientifique d'enseignants chercheurs de l'Université française s'intègre dans les préparations assurées par le CNED aux CAPES et aux agrégations d'anglais qui comprennent aussi des conseils méthodologiques et des entraînements aux épreuves des concours avec correction personnalisée. Un héros allemand. Vent d'Est. Éveil poétique. La monarchie en révolution. Les querelles critiques. Conflits d'écoles. Rivalités éditoriales. Joutes cycliques. Retour aux sources. Miroir du présent. Chroniques et poèmes. Vie de Richard II. Guerre et paix. Narcissisme et cérémonies. Inaction pathologique. Le miroir tragique. Actes ou scènes. Tragédie ou histoire. Le miroir à deux faces. Le ministère du temps. Le roi divin. Droit divin des rois. Doctrine dramatique. Les deux corps du roi. La métaphore royale. Humeur sanguine. Croissance végétale. Les personnages. Les choeurs. Le souverain. La veuve, l'épouse, la mère. Les Lancastre. Les York. Les partisans et la résistance.

Dominique Goy-Blanquet

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