L’ici et l’ailleurs : les paysages d’Hamlet
Shakespeare's Hamlet is a tragedy in which space seems to fold in on itself. If the here of Denmark is reduced to a prison universe, should one look elsewhere to contemplate the unfolding of a landscape? This paper shows that the here, a paradoxical land of exile for Hamlet, is evoked by metaph...
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| description | Shakespeare's Hamlet is a tragedy in which space seems to fold in on itself. If the here of Denmark is reduced to a prison universe, should one look elsewhere to contemplate the unfolding of a landscape? This paper shows that the here, a paradoxical land of exile for Hamlet, is evoked by metaphors of confinement, an absence of depth of field, and “haptic” and not “optical” spaces (Deleuze and Guattari). It then looks at the mental landscapes of the elsewhere created either by memory (that of the pre-Reformation period) or by imagination (projecting pictures of the afterlife), in order to see how the vestiges of Catholic places of worship (the sanctuary of Notre Dame de Walsingham; the fresco of the danse macabre) on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the cartography of the dread provoked by “[t]he undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveller returns” (3. 1.78-79) are indirectly conveyed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-60e056733262452fab614afe99d4f6332024-01-09T15:18:06ZengSociété d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe sièclesXVII-XVIII0291-37982117-590X2023-12-0180L’ici et l’ailleurs : les paysages d’HamletPascale DrouetShakespeare's Hamlet is a tragedy in which space seems to fold in on itself. If the here of Denmark is reduced to a prison universe, should one look elsewhere to contemplate the unfolding of a landscape? This paper shows that the here, a paradoxical land of exile for Hamlet, is evoked by metaphors of confinement, an absence of depth of field, and “haptic” and not “optical” spaces (Deleuze and Guattari). It then looks at the mental landscapes of the elsewhere created either by memory (that of the pre-Reformation period) or by imagination (projecting pictures of the afterlife), in order to see how the vestiges of Catholic places of worship (the sanctuary of Notre Dame de Walsingham; the fresco of the danse macabre) on the one hand, and, on the other hand, the cartography of the dread provoked by “[t]he undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveller returns” (3. 1.78-79) are indirectly conveyed.http://journals.openedition.org/1718/11558ShakespeareHamletlandscapeelsewherevirtual |
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| title_short | L’ici et l’ailleurs : les paysages d’Hamlet |
| title_sort | l ici et l ailleurs les paysages d hamlet |
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