La voix suspecte : des crocodiles et des hommes
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Voices come from afar in Shakespeare's works. First, one hears them faintly calling from the mysterious caskets of hermetic philosophy, sacred or forbidden voices, suspect voices at all events. Then they seem to materialize into things and such promiscuity with matter makes them even more suspect. Scholasticism confined them to closets as mere things. Will they ever become the instrument the Renaissance desperately needed to bring men together, estranged as they had become in their secluded lives? Subdued under the yoke of Rhetoric could these voices learn to speak? Behind the changing aspects of voices in Shakespeare's works, one records an evolution from Plato's warning against a contagion from animality to the bold Ovidian merging of the human, animal, vegetal and mineral identities that blossom out in the polyphonic voices of The Tempest at the close of Shakespeare's life.
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Bibliographical reference
Margaret Jones-Davies, “La voix suspecte : des crocodiles et des hommes”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare, 17 | 1999, 131-158.
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Margaret Jones-Davies, “La voix suspecte : des crocodiles et des hommes”, Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare [Online], 17 | 1999, Online since 01 November 2007, connection on 17 January 2025. URL: http://0-journals-openedition-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/shakespeare/375; DOI: https://0-doi-org.catalogue.libraries.london.ac.uk/10.4000/shakespeare.375
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