Shakespeare en devenir

Peter G. Christensen is Associate Professor of English at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he teaches Shakespeare, English literature to 1800, science fiction and fantasy literature, religion in literature, and Australian and African literature. He received his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1979. He has published, “Love's Labour's Lost: Branagh's Revitalization of the Fairy Tale Musical” in SRASP (Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Selected Papers – University of West Virginia) 26 (2003): 86-94. His article on “The Revenge Motif in the 1920 Asta Nielsen Hamlet” will appear in a collection edited be José Ramón Diaz Fernandez, Shakespeare on Screen: The Centenary Essays (Amsterdam, Rodopi, forthcoming). He wrote his dissertation on “The Novel Trilogy as Experimental Form: John Dos Passos' U.S.A., William Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy and Jean‑Paul Sartre's Les Chemins de la liberté”. Among his current projects is a study of changes in the historical novel over the last hundred years. In addition, he is the author of 150 scholarly articles on literature and film, including essays on Simone De Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Zoë Oldenbourg, Jean Cocteau, Jean D’Ormesson, Leonora Carrington, George Sand, Jacques Feyder, and Jean-Luc Godard.