Les spectateurs de Shakespeare : à la découverte des lettres et carnets de ses contemporains

‘Flowers for English Speaking’

“…His notes clearly show that he is interested not only in sententiae and aphorisms, words and phrases, but also in the give and take of conversational performance: forms of address, and situationally defi ned remarks. 20 21 Pudsey's book registers an interest in the blueprints for improvisation and thinking on one's feet that are provided by play scripts. This conversational interest has such compulsive force that it defi nes Pudsey's attention not only to comedies, but also to politically fraught texts, which he mines for expressions rather than substance or argument: Pudsey was reading politics and history largely for witty talk.…”