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Études anglaises - N°4/2014

Tadié Alexis
Publication date 24/02/2015
EAN: 9782252039298
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Natalie ROULON Music and Gender in All's Well That Ends WellAll’s Well That Ends Well may not be the most musical of Shakespeare’s works, but the music performed or referred to in the play is important in that it contributes to constructing the stric... See full description
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PublisherKLINCKSIECK
Page Count128
Languagefr
AuthorTadié Alexis
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Publication date24/02/2015
Weight200 g
Dimensions (thickness x width x height)0.80 x 15.00 x 23.00 cm
Text and Music in Early Modern England
Natalie ROULON Music and Gender in All's Well That Ends WellAll’s Well That Ends Well may not be the most musical of Shakespeare’s works, but the music performed or referred to in the play is important in that it contributes to constructing the strict gender divide which prevailed in the society whose tensions this "problem comedy" reflects. Masculine music is martial, self-centred, and tends to reveal the principal male characters’ anxieties about feminine desire. Although the female characters are not presented as musicians, in many productions they are accompanied by soft stringed instruments when they appear onstage. Helen is associated with music in male discourse and is cast as the play’s main, albeit paradoxical, harmonising figure. Whereas the King of France’s male physicians have failed to restore his health, Helen successfully devises a musical cure for him and is therefore granted her request to choose Bertram for her husband. However, in spite of the immense power Shakespeare has endowed her with, this Orphic woman comes up against a patriarchal structure which leaves limited scope for female agency and gender reversal, hence the lingering doubts, even once the play has ended, as to her ability to attain unalloyed marital bliss.Bien que All’s Well That Ends Well ne soit pas la plus musicale des œuvres de Shakespeare, la musique qui y est interprétée où à laquelle il est fait référence est importante dans la mesure où elle contribue à la construction de la division des genres qui prévalait dans la société dont les tensions se trouvent reflétées dans cette problem comedy. La musique des hommes est martiale et narcissique et tend à -mettre au jour l’angoisse qu’éprouvent les principaux personnages masculins à l’endroit du désir féminin. Bien que les figures féminines ne soient pas présentées sous les traits de musiciennes, leur présence est accompagnée d’une suave musique pour cordes dans bien des mises en scène. Helen est associée à la musique dans le discours masculin et son rôle, quoique paradoxal, est celui de la grande figure harmonisante de la pièce. Tandis que les médecins du roi de France ont échoué à le guérir, Helen met au point une thérapie musicale qui atteint son but, aussi se voit-elle accorder sa requête de faire de Bertram son époux. Cependant, en dépit des immenses prérogatives que Shakespeare lui a conférées, cette femme orphique se heurte à une structure patriarcale qui ne s’accommode vraiment ni du pouvoir féminin ni de l’inversion des rôles sexuels, d’où une incertitude persistante, une fois la pièce achevée, quant à sa capacité à accéder à une parfaite félicité conjugale.Anne-Marie MILLER-BLAISE Ardelia’s Voice: Anne Kingsmill Finch and the (Female) Lyrical MomentAnne Kingsmill Finch’s most probable authorship of the libretto to the first through-sung English opera, John Blow’s Venus and Adonis, does not only elucidate one of the mysteries of the history of music. Considered alongside Finch’s other dramatic works, it reverberates on the way the Countess of Winchilsea shapes her own voice in her lyric poetry, thought of in terms of performance. Finch’s engagement with Restoration music helps to account for the tension later at work in her poems between gendered song and speech. It may also explain why she has often been misconstrued as a pre-Romantic poet.L’attribution probable du livret du premier véritable opéra anglais, le Vénus et Adonis de John Blow, à Anne Kingsmill Finch ne résout pas seulement l’un des petits mystères de l’histoire de la musique. Ce texte, lorsque lu parallèlement aux autres œuvres dramatiques de Finch, éclaire d’un nouveau jour la manière particulière dont la comtesse de Winchilsea façonne sa voix, pensée comme performance, dans sa poésie lyrique. L’implication de Finch dans le domaine musical à la Restauration permet de mettre en lumière la tension qui existe plus tard dans sa poésie entre la parole et le chant, tous deux sexués. Elle élucide peut-être aussi les raisons pour lesquelles Finch a souvent été considérée à tort comme un poète préromantique.Pierre DEGOTT Variations on a Reflexive Theme: the Musical Adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1692-1763)This paper focuses on the many rewritings of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the long eighteenth century. It mainly analyses the way reflexive discourse on drama gave way, in a whole spectrum of generic hybrids, to a form of “meta-operatic” discourse dealing with the place of opera on the English stage. If Purcell’s The Fairy Queen (1692) celebrates the all-powerful place of music to the point that it actually stages the symbolic dismissal of the poet, Richard Leveridge’s adaptations of the play-within-the-play (1716, 1745) signal the generic upheavals brought about by the advent of Italian opera in the 1710s. David Garrick’s later adaptations testify to the difficulty of restoring Shakespeare’s text by purging it from the Italian influences still pervading native genres.Cet article se penche su...