Biography
Email: nrivere[at]univ-tlse2.fr
Nathalie Rivère de Carles is Lecturer in Early Modern Studies at University Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Deputy Head of the Research Group on Drama within the English Department Research Centre, Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes, EA 180. General editor of the collection "Nouvelles Scènes", Presses Universitaires du Midi.
Interested in: Elizabethan to Carolean Drama (stage & page), material history, cultural and political exchanges in the Early Modern Era, dramatic and poetical representation of the body, mythology.
Contribution to this website
Review of Françoise Frontisi-Ducroux. Ouvrages de dames: Ariane, Hélène, Pénélope…. La Librairie du XXe siècle. Paris: Seuil, 2009.
Select bibliography
• “Subtle weavers, mythological interweavings and feminine political agency: Penelope and Arachne in early modern drama”. In Interweaving Myths in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (ed. Janice Valls-Russell, Agnès Lafont and Charlotte Coffin). Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017: 173-94.
• “‘Her breath will mist or stain the stone’: Confusing visions in King Lear”. In The true blank of thine eye : approches critiques de King Lear, ed. Pascale Drouet and Pierre Iselin. Paris, Presses de l'Université Paris Sorbonne, 2009, 189-212.
• “Staging Shakespeare’s exoticism on the continent”. In Twelfth Night: New Critical Essays, ed. Philip C. Kolin and James Schiffer. London, Routledge, 2009.
• “‘Seest thou not what a deformed theefe this fashion is?’ le costume-piège dans le théâtre renaissant”. in Costume et déguisement dans le théâtre de Shakespeare et de ses contemporains, Actes de la Société Française Shakespeare 26 (2008): 122-39. (web version here)
• “‘The Chaste Penelope’: questionnement d’un modèle mythique”. In Le mythe et la plume. L’écriture et les femmes en Grande-Bretagne (1540-1640), ed. Armel Dubois-Nayt, Pascal Caillet et Jean-Claude Mailhol. Valenciennes: Presses Universitaires de Valenciennes (2007), 131-42.
• “Tenture et théâtre: de Minerve à Thespis”. In Mythe et littérature: Shakespeare et ses contemporains, ed. Yves Peyré. Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Anglophonia 13, 2003, 83-96.
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