Greenberg, Mitchell. Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity

Folger bibliographic ID: 232247
Folger call number: PQ1905 .G68 2010
Folger holdings ID: 280696

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

Extended title: Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity / Mitchell Greenberg

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 French drama (Tragedy)

author: Greenberg, Mitchell, 1946-
subject: Racine, Jean, 1639-1699