{"product_id":"racine-s-roman-tragedies-essays-on-britannicus-and-berenice-9789004504806","title":"Racine’s Roman Tragedies: Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn two of his most famous plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome.  This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.   For Racine, Rome is more than a location, it is a set of values and traditions, a space of opportunity and oppression.  The contributors to this volume examine Racine’s stagecraft, his exploration of time and space, sound and silence, and the ways in which he develops his own distinctive understanding of tragedy.  The reception of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations also features.  In Racine’s hands, Rome becomes a state of mind, haunted by both past and future.    This book's dedicatee, Richard Parish, passed away on January 1st 2022, just before publication. We would like to dedicate this collection of essays to his memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors    Introduction: Racine’s Imagined Rome   Nicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond    Part 1: Defining Tragedy  1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ?   Tristan Alonge    2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero   John D. Lyons    3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine’s Bérénice   Paul Hammond    Part 2: Sound, Metatheatre, and Theatrical Space  4 ‘Mille bruits’: Listening to Britannicus   Nicholas Hammond    5 Noises Off? Bérénice’s Echo Chamber   Joseph Harris    6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice   Delphine Calle    7 Bérénice: Disoriented in Rome   John D. Lyons    8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial Dynamics   Michael Hawcroft    Part 3: Ambiguity, Concealment, and Duplicity  9 Naissance des monstres : Le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus   Tony Gheeraert    10 Mendacity in Racine’s Britannicus   Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde    11 ‘D’un voile d’amitié j’ai couvert mon amour’: Homoerotic Subtexts in Bérénice   Paul Scott    Part 4: Racine and His Rivals  12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and Barthes   Michael Moriarty    13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repensée   Hélène Bilis    14 Pradon and the ‘Parodie de Bérénice’   Jan Clarke    Part 5: Sources and Translations  15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice   Susan Reynolds    16 ‘If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move’: Translating Emotion from Racine’s Bérénice (1670) to Otway’s Titus and Berenice (1676)   Suzanne Jones    17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst’s Berenice   Denis Flannery    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210836336983,"sku":"9789004504806","price":124.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/racine-s-roman-tragedies-essays-on-britannicus-and-berenice-9789004504806","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}