10 | 2021
Scènes dans la langue de l’autre (XVIe-XVIIIe s.)
This issue explores episodes from the Elizabethan theatre, by Shakespeare, Marston, and Heywood, which feature several linguistic idioms, thus creating language games and language wars. The aim is to analyse the dramatic potential of these sequences, but also the difficulties and specificities of translation and performance, as well as the issues – mainly political – underlying them.
This issue focuses on scenes of polyglossia from Henry V, All’s Well That Ends Well, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Titus Andronicus. Contributions by different authors on the same plays (Henry V and Love’s Labour’s Lost in particular) allow us to look at the similar matters from various angles. This is in keeping with the spirit of the journal, which aims at offering approaches from several points of view. This Elizabethan corpus makes it possible to address diverse questions, such as the specificity of regional languages and dialects, linguistic conquest, the dominant/dominated language, and definitions of the language of the Other based on contemporary theories of race and gender. The last section addresses the question of the transition from one language to another from the perspective of performance, testifying to the dynamic and cross-fertilizing effect of putting different languages in contact.
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Introduction [Full text]
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1. Focus on Henry V
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Leçons de langues dans Henry V [Full text]
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2. Other Shakespeare Plays
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3. Marston and Heywood
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4. Scenes in the Other’s Language in Performance
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Glitchy Language: The Rosetta Theatre Project [Full text]
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