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Racine’s Roman Tragedies

Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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In two of his most famous plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.For Racine, Rome is more than a location, it is a set of values and traditions, a space of opportunity and oppression. The contributors to this volume examine Racine’s stagecraft, his exploration of time and space, sound and silence, and the ways in which he develops his own distinctive understanding of tragedy. The reception of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations also features. In Racine’s hands, Rome becomes a state of mind, haunted by both past and future.This book's dedicatee, Richard Parish, passed away on January 1st 2022, just before publication. We would like to dedicate this collection of essays to his memory.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-06
Mått155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt808 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska, Franska
SerieFaux Titre
Antal sidor396
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004504806

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Nicholas Hammond (DPhil Oxford 1992) is Professor of early modern French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely, including on Pascal, Port-Royal, and gossip, and has edited several books. His most recent book is The Powers of Sound and Song in early modern Paris (2019).Paul Hammond (LittD Cambridge 1996) is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Strangeness of Tragedy (2009) and Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire (2021).

Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Racine’s Imagined RomeNicholas Hammond and Paul HammondPart 1: Defining Tragedy1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ?Tristan Alonge2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the HeroJohn D. Lyons3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine’s BérénicePaul HammondPart 2: Sound, Metatheatre, and Theatrical Space4 ‘Mille bruits’: Listening to BritannicusNicholas Hammond5 Noises Off? Bérénice’s Echo ChamberJoseph Harris6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans BéréniceDelphine Calle7 Bérénice: Disoriented in RomeJohn D. Lyons8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial DynamicsMichael HawcroftPart 3: Ambiguity, Concealment, and Duplicity9 Naissance des monstres : Le mal et ses doubles dans BritannicusTony Gheeraert10 Mendacity in Racine’s BritannicusEmilia Wilton-Godberfforde11 ‘D’un voile d’amitié j’ai couvert mon amour’: Homoerotic Subtexts in BérénicePaul ScottPart 4: Racine and His Rivals12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and BarthesMichael Moriarty13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repenséeHélène Bilis14 Pradon and the ‘Parodie de Bérénice’Jan ClarkePart 5: Sources and Translations15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and BéréniceSusan Reynolds16 ‘If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move’: Translating Emotion from Racine’s Bérénice (1670) to Otway’s Titus and Berenice (1676)Suzanne Jones17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst’s BereniceDenis FlanneryBibliographyIndex