Obscene beasts: the stage behind the scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mimesis, the art of imitating the real world on the stage, is all the more difficult if this real world consists of a beast—a wild, dangerous, supposedly “obscene” animal in the Latin sense: literally off-stage. Such is the challenge faced by the amateur company of mechanicals who are producing the...
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Centre de Recherche "Texte et Critique de Texte"
2016-06-01
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| Series: | Sillages Critiques |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4413 |