Racine : the power and the pleasure

Folger bibliographic ID: 118803
Folger call number: PQ1905 .R335 2001
Folger holdings ID: 112581

General notes

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents

The Racinian hero and the classical theory of characterization / Georges Forestier -- Racine's use of maxims / Jean-Louis Backès -- Women and power in Britannicus and Bérénice : the battle of blood and tears / Christian Biet -- Gender, power and authority in Alexandre le Grand and Athalie / Derval Conroy -- Constructions of identity : mirrors of the 'other' in Racine's theatre / Jane Conroy -- Racine's 'Jacobite' plays : the politics of the Bible / Edric Caldicott -- Les frères ennemis : Racine, Molière, and 'la querelle du théâtre' / Robert McBride -- Voltaire, women and reception : Racine in the eighteenth century / Marc Serge Rivière -- Pleasure in Racine / Louis van Delft -- The majesty and pleasure of Bérénice today / Jean-Michel Delacomptée -- Esther : prototype of an oratio? The collaboration of Racine and Jean-Baptiste Moreau / Susanne Hartwig and Berthold Warnecke -- Moreau as teacher : the impact of his vocation on the composition of Esther / Gráinne Gormley -- Racine and the three vanities / Alain Viala

Item information about Folger PQ1905 .R335 2001

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Extended title: Racine : the power and the pleasure / edited by Edric Caldicott and Derval Conroy

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 Power (Social sciences) in literature Pleasure in literature

subject: Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
associated with: Caldicott, C. E. J
associated with: Conroy, Derval