«Mais qu’est-ce, au fond, qu’une pièce historique ?»: du métadrame à la métahistoire dans Clinique d’un roi d’Antoine Pickels
«Mais qu’est-ce, au fond, qu’une pièce historique ?»: from metadrama to metahistory in Antoine Pickels’ Clinique d’un roi

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, I analyse the play Clinique d’un roi by the Belgian author Antoine Pickels as a metadrama, i.e., drama about drama. I concentrate on the most important textual manifestations of its metadramatic dimension. I also read it as a form of metahistorical reflection. Clinique d’un roi can be regarded as a “negative historical drama” that questions its own claims to historicity.

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