Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Table of ContentsA Note on Text and Translations
Preface
Introduction: Spectacle, Myth, Sacrifice: Racinian Tragedy and the Origins of Modernity
1. La Thébaïde: Politics and Monstrous Origins
2. Andromaque: Myth and Melancholy
3. Britannicus: Power, Perversion, and Paranoia
4. Oriental Oedipus: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate
5. Iphigénie: Sacrifice and Sovereignty
6. Phèdre (et Hippolyte): Tabou, Transgression, and the Birth of Democracy?
7. Esther, Athalie: Religion, and Revolution in Racine's Heavenly City
Notes
Index
