Shakespeare Transforms France?
Times Online - Sunday Times
Through the amusing, sometimes hilarious story of how the French theatre slowly came to terms with Shakespeare, John Pemble of Bristol University aims to show how French culture and its view of the island across the water have changed during the past 250 years, and how important Shakespeare was in that transformation. He goes so far as to suggest that the long struggle to accommodate an alien they viewed as “an extraordinary genius yet deprived of elementary taste” helped redefine French culture.
Through the amusing, sometimes hilarious story of how the French theatre slowly came to terms with Shakespeare, John Pemble of Bristol University aims to show how French culture and its view of the island across the water have changed during the past 250 years, and how important Shakespeare was in that transformation. He goes so far as to suggest that the long struggle to accommodate an alien they viewed as “an extraordinary genius yet deprived of elementary taste” helped redefine French culture.
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