Orientalism in French Classical Drama (Cambridge Studies in French)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 10, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521807210
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Plays & playwrights: 19th century; Theatre, drama; Orient; History and criticism; Drama; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; French; Literature: Classics; In literature; Continental European; Drama / Continental European; Drama-Continental European; French drama--17th century--History and criti; French drama--17th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism / Drama; Ancient, Classical & Medieval; 17th century; Exoticism in literature; French drama
First sentence: Jason and his wife Medee, a foreigner from Colchis (Asia), have come to Corinth to seek refuge after Medee has committed an atrocity against Jason's enemy Pelie in Jason's kingdom Thessaly (both Corinth and Thessaly are Greek kingdoms and thus in the "West").