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Suggests that Yves Bonnefoy's Shakespeare translations offer a defense of the feminine in response to oppresive Western patriarchy.

Reprinted in Née, Yves Bonnefoy: Critique et Poésie (Hermann, 2023).

Includes one essay on Shakespeare.

Describes Yves Bonnefoy's metapoetics in his discussion of Shakespeare translation. Shows how, for Bonnefoy, Shakespeare's characters become allegories for poetry. Analyses Bonnefoy's "Letter to Shakespeare" published with L'Hesitation d'Hamlet (q.v.).

Shows how with the structure and content of Le Digamma (q.v.), Yves Bonnefoy explores reprises and witnessing as interpretive acts, with a particular focus on Bonnefoy's Shakespearean intertexts, "Dieu dans Hamlet" and "Pour mettre en scène Othello."

Includes one essay on Shakespeare.

Argues that Denis Diderot's conception of theatre and theatricality was based on his understanding of Shakespeare's dramaturgy, emphasizing the importance of entertainment and education over decorum and neoclassical conventions. English, Spanish, and French summaries, 71-72.

Includes poetic adaptations of Shakespeare such as "Première ébauche d’une mise en scène d’Hamlet" and "Hamlet en montagne." 

Republished in Yves Bonnefoy, L'Heure Présente et Autres Texts (Paris: Gallimard, 2014. 330 pp.).

Analyzes two short stories by Yves Bonnefoy, "Première ébauche d’une mise en scène d’Hamlet" and "Hamlet en montagne" (in L'heure presente, q.v.), considering them in light of Bonnefoy's theory of translation, as loose translations, and as allegories for translation. English, French, and Spanish summaries, 393-94.

Suggests that Hamlet explores the ways displacement can offer agency, pointing to his encounter with his father's ghost, his stabbing of Polonius and subsequent treatment of the corpse, and the gravediggers' scene.

"Maps out an early modern view of breath important to understanding and complicating Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra both semantically within the text and somatically between actors and audiences." Points to breath as mythologizing, preserving, and interrupting, focusing on the function of Cleopatra's perfume and drawing examples from Gary Griffin's Stratford Festival production (q.v.), directed for film by Barry Avrich.