Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · English playwright and poet (1564–1616) · 1564–1616

Appears in 31 videos · 35 passages, 12 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns above all to Hamlet, taking up the phrase "Well said, old mole", which he links to Marx and, in 2019, to the people who were thought to be buried and who resurface1. He stresses that Marx quotes Shakespeare constantly, in particular Timon of Athens' speech on gold, which paints money as what overturns all values2. He sees him as an emblematic reference for the Romantics, who rehabilitated him because the tragic and the comic coexist in the same play, even in King Lear3. He counts him among the first moderns, whose language has not aged, and recalls that Julius Caesar shows the fluctuations of public opinion4. Regarding Macbeth, he points out that the story "full of sound and fury" expresses only a character's view, since Shakespeare is all his characters5. He often quotes the ages of life from As You Like It and "All the world's a stage". He also recalls that Verdi drew Otello and Falstaff from his plays.

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Who is this?

William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, 3 long narrative poems and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. […]

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Season 11 · 26 Apr 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or "The dominant ideology"

31:53As You Like It"All the world's a stage": the whole world is a stage; the comedy takes place in a bucolic world outside the world.
1:11:52Cited among the British literature he loves.

Season 9.2 · 17 Mar 20219 #17 The geopolitical metaphor • Planck • Descartes • Clouscard • Dominique Pagani

31:19As You Like ItThe seven ages of man: to the sulky schoolboy the satchel seems heavy, an example of the relativity of heavy and light.

Series · 10 Mar 2021Musicosophy 16. Programme music / Pure music

20:16HamletEmblematic author for the Romantics: in the same play, comic and tragic passages.

Talks · 3 Aug 2019Money, work, freedom

2:50Timon of AthensHis tirade on gold, a sequence of antitheses, according to Marx makes a masterly painting of money that overturns all values.

Season 5.2 · 30 Jun 2019#5.8 Nature or Landscape?

4:01Hamlet"The rest is silence," Hamlet's last words.
35:00Passage listed.
42:08Sonnet 29The actor complains there of being an outcast, but would not trade his condition for that of a king.

Talks · 13 Feb 2019Hegel and the yellow vests (Part 1)

46:35Hamlet"Well burrowed, old mole": the people believed buried reappears.

Season 5.1 · 2 Nov 2018#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions

38:54King LearEmblematic reference of romanticism: he mixes tragedy and comedy, even in his darkest play.

Season 4 · 4 Feb 2018#4.4B Objections to Dominique Pagani

3:44Constantly cited by Marx.
7:52Rehabilitated by the romantics because tragic and comic coexist in the same play.

Talks · 9 Mar 2017Is History a subject?

1:21:23MacbethThe tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing: this is one character's opinion, and Shakespeare is all his characters.