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This chapter approaches the specificities and difficulties of referencing allusions to Shakespeare’s plays when there is a double layer of mediation and quotation. A French film version of Agatha Christie’s novel By the Pricking of My Thumbs (1968), entitled Mon petit doigt m’a dit (dir. Pascal Thomas, 2005), alludes to Macbeth through the filter of Agatha Christie’s detective novel. We will explore the double layer of reference and study what a French audience may make of such a reference. What remains of Shakespeare when it is both concealed and revealed by Christie’s work and its afterlives? How do Shakespeare and Christie share the seeds and roots of such a reference?
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Vienne-Guerrin, N. (2022). “Mon Petit Doigt M’a Dit …”: Referencing Shakespeare or Agatha Christie?. In: Joubin, A.A., Bladen, V. (eds) Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare. Global Shakespeares. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93783-6_7
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