Shakespeare en devenir

Sous la direction de : Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine, Estelle Rivier-Arnaud et Eric C. Brown Date de publication électronique : 13 novembre 2019 Couverture du numéro : © Jean-Louis Claret

Why is the star-crossed Veronese couple still so attractive today? For not only stage-directors and filmmakers have used the Shakespearean source and contextualized the plot in often daring ways, but also bloggers and Youtubers, manga and comic-book designers, novelists and storytellers, composers for operas and ballets, musicians and dancers, painters, and illustrators. All have been inspired by the tragic passion that Shakespeare poetically conveyed in the 16^th century. And all contribute to a prevailing sense that, of all Shakespeare’s plays, the imagery of Romeo and Juliet is not only the most deeply imprinted in the global imagination, but particularly photogenic in a way that (im)perfectly aligns with today’s hyper visual culture.