Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure

Through such questions as the topos of seeming vs. being, the conflicts between secret spousals and marriage, the importance of reputation as a condition of the reliability of witnesses and its vulnerability to rumour and slander, or even through the “mysteries” of trade guilds, the relationships be...

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Main Author: Michèle Vignaux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte" 2013-01-01
Series:Sillages Critiques
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/2648
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description Through such questions as the topos of seeming vs. being, the conflicts between secret spousals and marriage, the importance of reputation as a condition of the reliability of witnesses and its vulnerability to rumour and slander, or even through the “mysteries” of trade guilds, the relationships between public and private life lie at the heart of Measure for Measure. The initial black-and-white picture and clear-cut dichotomy of sin and virtue gradually gives way to an increasingly complex and unsettling picture resulting from the intricacies of doubts, uncertainties, fears, casuistry, perversion, and various forms of manipulation. In this article, I will focus on the dialectics of light and darkness, ostentation and secrecy, dissimulation and display, throughout the play and up to the very last line, with its paradoxical promise to show “What’s yet behind that’s meet you all should know” (5.1.536).
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Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure
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Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
public life
privacy
reputation
slander
title Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure
title_full Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure
title_fullStr Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure
title_full_unstemmed Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure
title_short Le public et le privé dans Mesure pour Mesure
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topic Shakespeare
Measure for Measure
public life
privacy
reputation
slander
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