Genres et raison d’État dans Hamlet de Svend Gade (1920) et Titus de Julie Taymor (1999)

Two major film versions of revenge tragedies, one of them silent, illustrate the freedom which characterizes certain examples of the genre Shakespeare on screen. The different cultural backgrounds of these adaptations is explored, and the modernity of their respective mise-en-scène analyzed. Common...

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Main Author: Eithne O’Neill
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2010-12-01
Series:Itinéraires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/1712
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Summary:Two major film versions of revenge tragedies, one of them silent, illustrate the freedom which characterizes certain examples of the genre Shakespeare on screen. The different cultural backgrounds of these adaptations is explored, and the modernity of their respective mise-en-scène analyzed. Common to both works is the trope of the daughter’s sacrifice, raising the issues of gender and genre. How does the concern with the image and role of woman relate to the dramatic and filmic genres?
ISSN:2427-920X