Daughters of the Carnivalized Nation in Jean-Pierre Ronfard's Shakespearean Adaptations Lear and Vie Et Mort Du Roi Boiteux. Daughters of the Carnivalized Nation in Jean-Pierre Ronfard's Shakespearean Adaptations Lear and Vie Et Mort Du Roi Boiteux.

Daughters of the Carnivalized Nation in Jean-Pierre Ronfard's Shakespearean Adaptations Lear and Vie Et Mort Du Roi Boiteux‪.‬

Theatre Research in Canada 2006, Spring, 27, 1

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Quebec theatre abounds with Shakespearean adaptations (not counting translations, another genre entirely). Jean-Pierre Ronfard's texts contributed significantly to this corpus of adaptations which seek to appropriate "le grand Will" to work through Quebecois issues. In Lear (1977) and Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux (1981), we see the evolution of the importance of nationalism and feminism before and after the referendum. The nation is destroyed by Rabelaisian carnival, but carnivalesque death is always associated with regeneration, which, in Ronfard's works, is entrusted to regal daughters in whom we can find hope for the reconstruction of the nation once its bastardry has been celebrated. Ronfard's plays also comprise a metafictional critique of Shakespeare himself who literally enacts the theory of the death of the author while giving birth to another Shakespeare who is entirely Quebecois. Des adaptations de Shakespeare abondent au Quebec (sans parler de traductions, un tout autre genre). Les textes de jean-Pierre Ronfard ont contribue de facon significative a ce corpus d'adaptations qui cherchent a approprier le grand Will au service des enjeux quebecois. Dans Lear (1977) et Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux (1981), on voit l'evolution de l'importance accordee au nationalisme et au feminisme a la veille et au lendemain du referendum. La nation est rasee par le carnaval rabelaisien, mais la mort carnavalesque est toujours associee a une regeneration, qui, chez Ronfard, est confiee aux filles royales, chez qui on peut trouver espoir d'une reconstruction de la nation une fois que sa batardise ait etecelebree. Les pieces deRonfard porte aussi une critique metalitteraire sur Shakespeare lui-meme qui met en pratique litteralement la theorie de la mort de l'auteur, tout en faisant naitre un autre Shakespeare entierement quebecois.

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Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2006
22 March
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
51
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PUBLISHER
University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama
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273.4
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