Publisher's Synopsis
Consacree a la publication d'etudes sur le theatre de la Renaissance europeenne - et d'abord anglaise - et sur la culture qui le nourrit, la collection THETA se veut lieu de rencontre et de debat, accueillant sans exclusive toutes les approches. Les quinze essais de ce recueil abordent diverses formes et strategies dans l'imposant registre de la convention theatrale. Si cette notion essentielle interesse evidemment l'elaboration de la forme, du texte dramatique a celui de la representation, ses fonctions sont aussi parfois paradoxales, et peuvent meme concerner la reception de l'oeuvre immediatement ou a terme, jusqu'a en reconstruire les significations esthetiques ou le poids ideologique. Primarily meant to host studies about the drama of the English - and European - Renaissance, as well as the culture in which it is rooted, the THETA series aims to be a forum for exchange and debate. The fifteen essays in the present volume address a variety of forms and strategies of the conventional elements at work in the late C15 and C16 corpus of English plays. Known to be an essential factor in the writing proper - be it of the dramatic or the performance text - convention may work in paradoxical ways, even affecting play reception in the short or in the long term, to the point of altering its aesthetic features and ideological impact.
