Les « Vies de Shakespeare » de Ludwig Tieck

L. Tieck’s Dichterleben is an example of a romantic artistic nouvelle and also the first fictional biography in German of Shakespeare. Tieck deciphers the sources of the creative act and seeks to bring his reader and “his” Shakespeare together using procedures that inform one another: little known historical sources are presented and a singular life is constructed metaphorically where there would have been a nearly empty biographical space.