[Rubrique (article)] Champ de blé aux corbeaux: The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) by Joel Coen
Joel Coen’s American cinematic adaptation The Tragedy of Macbeth, released in the autumn of 2021, belongs to those films that are almost entirely constructed with direct and semi-direct references to fine art. The film, that assembled a stellar cast with Denzel Washington as an...
[Rubrique (article)] The Shakespearean painter Johann Heinrich Füssli defying French classicism in theory and practice
This paper was presented at a conference entitled ‘Literature and Politics–intermedial perspectives’ at the University of Berne in October 2023. I would like to express my gratitude to Sophie Stokes-Aymes, Anne-Cécile Guibard, Alice Breathe and Lukas Aresta for their corrections...
[Notice] The witches show Macbeth a helmeted head emerging from the ground - Henry Fuseli
[Notice] Les sorcières montrent à Macbeth une tête casquée émergeant du sol - Henry Fuseli
[Rubrique (article)] Fuseli’s Macbeth: bringing « the unclear » to light
Henry Fuseli was born in Zürich, Switzerland, in 1741, but he spent most of his life in England where he exhibited the majority of his works. The fact that English was not his mother tongue might sound insignificant, but it is of great interest since it is through...