Play Reviews: Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Romeo and Juliet, the Massacre at Paris, Macbeth, Richard II, Macbeth, Le Conte d'hiver (The Winter's Tale), Othello, Dido, Queen of Carthage, Richard II, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth (The Notes)

2014 ◽  
Vol 85 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-125
Author(s):  
Dana E. Aspinall ◽  
Marina Favila ◽  
Richard J. Larschan ◽  
Helen Osborne ◽  
Alban Déléris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Santa Cruz ◽  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
Richard Ii ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Antony And Cleopatra ◽  
Winter's Tale

Yves Bonnefoy and Shakespeare as a French Poet

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Efraín Kristal
Keyword(s):  
Romeo And Juliet ◽  
The Winter's Tale ◽  
Winter's Tale ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Great Poet ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Poetic Vision ◽  
Yves Bonnefoy

Yves Bonnefoy is a key figure in the French literary reception of Shakespeare. This essay explores his interpretations and translations of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, informed by his own poetic vision, anchored in a literary tradition whose high points include Baudelaire and Rimbaud. Bonnefoy argues that Shakespeare finds his poetic voice after experimenting with the sonnet—a genre Bonnefoy considers staid and prone to cliché when Shakespeare took it up. For Bonnefoy Shakespeare begins to come alive as a great poet in As you Like It and Romeo and Juliet; and his supreme achievement is The Winter’s Tale, a play which encompasses the scope of the entire oeuvre and resolves some underlying concerns of the major tragedies while offering a refined appraisal of the relationship between art, nature, and existence apposite to Bonnefoy’s own views about poetry.

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