Racine's Andromaque

Absences and Displacements
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41505-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 436, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy (first performed in Paris in 1667), through a collection of articles specially commissioned by the editors Nicholas Hammond and Joseph Harris. Challenging received opinions about the fixity of French ‘classicism’, this volume demonstrates how Racine’s play is preoccupied with absences, displacements, instability, and uncertainty. The articles explore such issues as: movement and transactions, offstage characters and locations, hallucinations and fantasies, love and desire, and translations and adaptations of Racine’s play. This collection will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of seventeenth-century French theatre.

Contributors: Nicholas Hammond, Joseph Harris, Michael Moriarty, Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde, Delphine Calle, Jennifer Tamas, Michael Hawcroft, Katherine Ibbett, Richard Parish.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Harris, Joseph

Hammond, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Hector’s Empty Tomb

Nicholas Hammond and Joseph Harris

1 Andromaque’s Absences

Nicholas Hammond

2 Actions and Transactions in Andromaque

Michael Moriarty

3 Misrecognitions and Misperceptions in Andromaque

Joseph Harris

4 Memories, Fantasies, and Realities of Death in Racine’s Andromaque

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

5 Andromaque or the Desire to Be Loved

Delphine Calle

6 Overcoming the Shadow: Andromaque’s Ambivalent Triumph

Jennifer Tamas

7 Translating Liminality: Entrances and Exits in Andromaque since 1667

Michael Hawcroft

8 Andromaque Translated: John Crowne’s Racine and the Refugee

Katherine Ibbett

9 ‘Principessa infelice!’ Andromaque in Italian Opera to 1819

Richard Parish

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Hammond (D.Phil Oxford, 1992), Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Culture at Cambridge University, has published several books on early modern French subjects such as Pascal, Port-Royal, Gossip, and, most recently, The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris (Penn State UP, 2019).

Joseph Harris (Ph.D. Cambridge, 2002), Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, has published widely on early modern French literature, notably Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France (2014).