Reviewing Shakespeare's plays in performance

What is it about?

The protean nature of the plays and their familiar oddity as cultural objects provide the adequate laboratory to re-envisage reviewing, its contemporary aesthetics and political function as well as that of theatre. This article will tentatively reflect on the methodological variety and the necessity of a liminal position of the reviewer, which will lead me to consider the temporality of the reviewers faced with intracultural exchanges between different historical eras and geographical areas on the French stage. This historicity of both the production and the reviewer is the key to the observation of the subtle political aesthetics emerging in French productions of English early modern plays and of the political commitment of the reviewer. The latter’s task may be to signal rather than to simply describe the actual ideological impact of interculturalism or cultural collages.

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