Racine
Subtitle: from ancient myth to tragic modernity
By: Mitchell Greenberg.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816660834; 9780816660841
Subjects: Racine, Jean, -- 1639-1699 -- Criticism and interpretation; French drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice: Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity; title: La Thébaïde: politics and monstrous origins; title: Andromaque: myth and melancholy; title: Britannicus: power, perversion, and paranoia; title: Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate: oriental Oedipus; title: Iphigénie: sacrifice and sovereignty; title: Phèdre (et Hippolyte): tabou, transgression, and the birth of democracy?; title: Esther, Athalie: religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.