scholarly journals Des passions funestes et salutaires. Les histoires tragiques selon Jean-Pierre Camus

2019 ◽  
pp. 442-454
Author(s):  
Frank Greiner
Keyword(s):  
Histoires Tragiques

Le Cinquiesme Tome des 'Histoires tragiques'

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-239
Author(s):  
J. Conroy
Keyword(s):  
Histoires Tragiques

Melancholy, Ambition, and Revenge in Belleforest's Hamlet

PMLA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
A. P. Stabler
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Histoires Tragiques ◽  
Definite Reference

In his What Happens in Hamlet, J. D. Wilson studies Hamlet's melancholy in the light of Renaissance beliefs, and especially those indicated in Bright's Treatise of Melancholie, to which Shakespeare seems to have been indebted for a number of ideas as well as turns of phrase. Significantly, as Wilson shows, the melancholy man was not only “prone to spectral visitations,” but was also aggravated in his condition by thwarted ambition; further, he “ponders and debates long, and does not act until his blood is up: then acts vigorously.” We can reasonably agree with this author that a knowledge of the contemporary corpus of doctrines and beliefs is important for an understanding of Hamlet's character and motivation, in which the thread of melancholy evidently connects several important elements. In the Introduction to his edition of Shakespeare's play, Wilson mentions another source for a melancholy Hamlet: the Histoires tragiques of François de Belleferest, which is recognized as the most immediate extant source of the play. Belleferest does, says Wilson, make a “definite reference to Amleth's [Hamlet's] over-great melancholy,” following a hint already to be found in the version of Saxo Grammaticus (Belleforest's source); but Wilson does no more than call attention to the reference, without noting Belleforest's additional remarks on the subject, and specifically denying to either source any other contributions to Hamlet's character. It will be the purpose of this article to show that not only the melancholy complex, but also other important facets of Hamlet's character have a probable basis in Saxo and Belleferest, and especially in the latter.

scholarly journals Translation as Violation: A Reading of Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-58
Author(s):  
Nancy E. Virtue
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Female Empowerment ◽  
Marguerite De Navarre ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Literary Response ◽  
Histoires Tragiques ◽  
One Year

This article examines Pierre Boaistuau's Histoires tragiques, a sixteenth-century translation and adaptation of six of Bandello's Novelle into French. Pierre Boaistuau is best known for the scandal surrounding his much-criticized edition of Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron, published in 1558. Presenting the novellas under the title of Histoires des amans fortunez, with only a veiled reference to the author herself, Boaistuau made liberal changes to the original text thus incurring the wrath and public reprimand of Jeanne d'Albret, Marguerite's daughter. This article argues that the Histoires tragiques, written within one year of the humiliation of this scandal, may be read as Boaistuau's literary response not only to Jeanne d'Albret's chastisement of him but also to the vision of female empowerment presented by Marguerite de Navarre in the Heptaméron.

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