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La tragedie due sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans 'Britannicus'.(Review)
The Modern Language Review
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January 1, 2001|
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La tragedie du sang d'Auguste: Politique et intertextualite dans 'Britannicus'. By VOLKER SCHRODER. (Collection Biblio 17, 119) Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. 1999. 327 pp.
This study of Britannicus and its textual sources makes an eloquent case, both theoretical and practical, for the usefulness of an intertextual approach in recreating the cultural horizons of the play's first public, the better to reactivate 'le potentiel semantique de l'oeuvre, a raviver les sens que le passage du temps a engourdis' (p. 35). In discussing the text Schroder displays an impressive ...
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