Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity /
Greenberg, Mitchell,1946-
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699
French drama (Tragedy)