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D’autres Héroïdes : les Epistulae heroides de Mark-Alexander Boyd (1592)
2022
The Scotsman Mark Alexander Boyd proposes, in his 1592 collection, "other heroids", in which he gives voice to more diverse women than Ovid did. The article focuses on four epistles written in a Roman context (letters from Rhea Silvia to Mars, from Lavinia to Turnus, from Sophonisbe to Massinissa and from Pauline to Mundus), analyzes the modalities of Ovid's imitation, while underlining some original elements on Boyd's part.
Héroïsme et exotisme. Le militaire à l’épreuve des lointains (1820-1914)
2013
International audience; Il est d’ordinaire coutume de présenter le XIXe siècle comme un siècle peu guerrier.Et, à en juger par ses bornes, il l’est peu en effet. Il clôt d’un côté une longueséquence guerrière d’un quart de siècle, issue des secousses de la Révolution, tandisqu’il sombre, de l’autre, dans le grand cataclysme de 14-18. Dans l’intervalle, lecontinent européen n’a connu que de rares conflits et, hormis la guerre de Crimée,des affrontements relativement circonscrits tant dans la durée que par le nombredes belligérants. Si le constat paraît juste a priori, il demeure toutefois prisonnierdu souvenir-écran qu’imposa le traumatisme de la Grande Guerre, qui a longtempsinterdit d’éval…
“Never shake thy gory locks at me” (Macbeth, III.iv.50-51): Objecting to Gestures in Macbeth
2018
International audience; Shakespeare's Macbeth displays a pattern of characters objecting to gestures, be it others' or their own. This includes Macbeth refusing to shake hands with his opponent before the battle, his words to Banquo's ghost quoted in the title above, Banquo's own puzzlement at the weird sisters' placing a finger over their lips, the doctor's suspicions at Lady Macbeth's rubbing her hands and sleepwalking, as well as Malcom's request that Macduff not pull his hat over his eyes. In many of these cases, gesture is pitted against speech, which seems to undermine the classically-derived ideal of "suit[ing] the word to the action, the action to the word" (Hamlet, 3.2.16-18). This…