Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity /
A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist--and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author--Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination. Gree...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2010.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780816670550 0816670552 0816660832 9780816660834 0816660840 9780816660841 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice : Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity
- La Thébaïde : politics and monstrous origins
- Andromaque : myth and melancholy
- Britannicus : power, perversion, and paranoia
- Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate : oriental Oedipus
- Iphigénie : sacrifice and sovereignty
- Phèdre (et Hippolyte) : taboo, transgression, and the birth of democracy?
- Esther, Athalie : religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.