Racine
Subtitle: the power and the pleasure
By: edited by Edric Caldicott and Derval Conroy.
Contributors: Caldicott, C. E. J.; Conroy, Derval.
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Power (Social sciences) in literature.; Pleasure in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: X The Racinian Hero and the Classical; title: Theory of Characterization; title: Georges Forestier; title: 2 Racine's Use of Maxims; title: Jean-Louis Backis; title: 3 Women and Power in Britannicus and Birinice:; title: The Battle of Blood and Tears; title: Christian Biet; title: 4 Gender, Power and Authority in Alexandre le Grand; title: and Athalie; title: Deroval Conroy; title: 5 Constructions of Identity: Mirrors of the 'Other'; title: in Racine's Theatre; title: Jane Conroy; title: 6 Racine's 'Jacobite' Plays: The Politics of the Bible; title: Edric Caldicott; title: 7 Lesfreres ennemis: Racine, Moliere, and 'la querelle du theatre'; title: Robert McBride; title: 8 Voltaire, Women and Reception: Racine in the; title: Eighteenth Century; title: Marc Serge Riviere; title: 9 Pleasure in Racine; title: Louis van Delft; title: Io The Majesty and Pleasure of Berenice Today; title: Jean-Michel Delacomptie; title: 11 Esther: Prototype of an Oratorio? The Collaboration; title: of Racine andJean-Baptiste Moreau; title: Susanne Hartwig and Berthold Warnecke; title: 12 Moreau as Teacher: The Impact of his Vocation; title: on the Composition of Esther; title: Grdinne Gormley; title: I3 Racine and the Three Vanities; title: Alain Viala; title: Index.