LA TEMPÊTE DE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.THEATRUM MUNDI, REFERENCE PHILOSOPHIQUE ET METAPHORE DE LA CONDITION HUMAINE
THE TEMPEST BY W. SHAKESPEARE. THEATRUM MUNDI, PHILOSOPHICAL REFERENCE AND METAPHOR OF HUMAN CONDITION

Summary/Abstract: Anticipating the great theatrical works of the Baroque (Corneille's Illusion Comique and La Vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca), THE TEMPEST, SHAKESPEARE's last play, revolutionized the theatrical device by breaking the rules imposed by Aristotle's Poetics. Shakespeare conceives the theater as a picture of the world on a reduced scale. At the same time spectator, the actor attends the show that takes place on the stage encompassed in the stage of the great theater, an image of the Globe. Should we consider that this mise-en-abyme of the theatrical device confirms that, in Shakespeare, the model of Theatrum Mundi has become a philosophical reference as well as a metaphor for the human condition?

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