Intertheatrality
In literature
It is the high point of this ascension towards art, particularly solemn for the shining appeal of the arts in chorus through the Muses. It is the image of
“…theatres, that the sacred inspiration of the Muses, having first stirred up the poet to anger, sorrow, hatred, and out of himself, to whatever they will, does moreover by the poet possess the actor, and by the actor consecutively all the spectators.” (Ibid.)
Hence the intertheatrality.
The Interartistic Phenomenon through Montaigne’s Essays, Peter Lang, Bern, 2018, ISBN: 978-3034333177, p. 136
At the theatre
Maeterlinck’s play Pelleas and Melisande is composed as a succession of paintings, which the music recreates in its own way, in opera too. That’s what makes it intertheatrical, interpictorial and intermusical. The scene in which Pelleas and Melisande meet in the castle tower mimics the painting. It is intertextually reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet in the same interpictorial palimpsest context.
Translation in English
Интерартистичният феномен през « Опити » на Монтен и « Мобиле » на Бютор, « Каталонската градина » на Бютор и Баден…, Пространство & форма, София, 2007, [The Interartistic Phenomenon Across « The Essays » of Montaigne and « Mobile » of Butor, « Catalonian Garden » of Butor and Badin…, Prostranstvo & forma, Sofia, 2007], ISBN: 9789548500050, p. 255
Pelleas and Melisande, play by Maurice Maeterlinck, 1922 colour litho by Carlos Schwabe.