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Travelling through the centuries
The intertextual relationship between
Shakespeare in Love,
Molière and
Young Goethe in Love
The paper analyses the influence of John Madden’s biopic Shakespeare in Love (GB/USA,
1998) on Molière (FR, 2007) and Young Goethe in Love (GER, 2010) by having a closer look at the
intertextual relationship between the films. For this, it considers external and internal connections, referring to intertexts for
the promotion and marketing as well as the use of content-based conventions for biopics on writers, literary sources and
anachronisms. The analysis reveals that, although the French and German films take Shakespeare in Love as a
source of inspiration, they rewrite the approach and transform it for an individual representation of their national subjects.
This double effect points to a different, alternative strategy for adapting the literary life of the canonical author.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Intertextuality
- 3.Promoting the biopic
- 4.Conventions for Brit-lit biopics
- 5.Intertextuality in the films studied
- 5.1
Shakespeare in Love
- 5.2
Molière
- 5.3
Young Goethe in Love
- 6.Conclusion
- Notes
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References
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