To refresh myself missals of the Second Empire, and other fascinating things that I need to study to prepare for the upcoming exhibition Mame Tours in almost two months, I can still find some time for me . Also, the Christmas gifts that led Bright Star in our meager collection of dvds, I started with delight upon reading a few poems of Keats. And especially The Eve of St Agnes decidedly beautiful, as can be romantic poetry, but, unlike that of Shelley, slow, quiet, meditative ... and yet passionate at the same time. Above all, English poetry is so real, so close to things, so little inclined to "make the mind" ...
John Keats by Joseph Severn, 1821-1823, National Portrait Gallery, London. Then we went to see last night , the Duchess of Malfi John Webster, in a translation by Anne-Laure Liégeois and Nigel Gearing, and directed by Anne-Laure Liégeois. Rarely seen something as dark, violent and grotesque at the same time, or Grand Guignol, especially at the end. We had already seen a wedding cake by AL Liegeois: it was' Edward II by Christopher Marlowe, a playwright in the same vein: day Shakespearean, Jacobean theater sulfur where scenes of violence are fighting those of gender, curses and imprecations against fate.
Except that the 'story', in Webster, disappears in favor of a quite amazing baroque excesses, sometimes bordering on delirium, as in the scene where, for the consolation of having locked in a tower, a brother moved to his sister the Duchess of him in a show of crazy telling everyone, just wearing a shirt, absurdities that would not have disowned a Rabelais or a Lucian.
And all this writing in the seventeenth century in the seventeenth century synonym for us in France, classicism and rationality ... Do we not surprised at all if the thriller is born in England at the time of the Enlightenment in France were in full swing. The opposition of Shakespeare and Racine is as old as literary studies, but that between the grotesque and hilarious black comedy of Webster and Molière's wise for thought ... But how is it, really, that the English are also gifted in literature? I will try to rethink going back to my comic books for young Catholics of the nineteenth century ...
The Duchess of Malfi Webster, directed by AL Liege. Cliché Christophe Raynaud De Lage . 
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