Le sonnet 130 de Shakespeare ou le blason mis à nu
Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 is sometimes read as an anti-blazon, and therefore as a misogynist text. Drawing on a large number of Renaissance poems, I show that this is a misreading of the sonnet which, far from presenting the Dark Lady in satirical…
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Shakespeare’s sonnet 130 is sometimes read as an anti-blazon, and therefore as a misogynist text. Drawing on a large number of Renaissance poems, I show that this is a misreading of the sonnet which, far from presenting the Dark Lady in satirical fashion, pays her an unconventional tribute. Shakespeare seemingly discards worn out metaphors, the better to throw light on their arbitrary nature. Rather than disparaging his Lady, he offers a witty parody of the traditional Petrarchan representation of women : rather than an anti-blazon, sonnet 130 is best defined as a metablason. Le sonnet 130 de Shakespeare est parfois lu comme un antiblason et, par conséquent, comme un texte misogyne. En m’appuyant sur un grand nombre de poèmes de la Renaissance, je montre qu’il s’agit là d’une interprétation erronée du sonnet qui, loin de présenter la Dame brune sur un mode satirique, lui rend un hommage peu conventionnel. Shakespeare fait mine d’écarter les métaphores éculées de façon à mieux mettre en lumière leur caractère arbitraire. Plutôt que de dénigrer sa Dame, il propose une parodie spirituelle de la représentation des femmes propre à la tradition pétrarquiste : ce n’est pas la catégorie d’antiblason mais celle de métablason qui correspond le mieux au sonnet 130.
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Original publication: Roulon, Natalie. "Le sonnet 130 de Shakespeare ou le blason mis à nu." Renaissance and Reformation 37 (2): 2014. 19-47. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v37i2.21809. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
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