Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny

Essays on Bajazet and Mithridate
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69513-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Französisch, Band 463, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

In Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.

The contributors to this volume examine Racine’s stagecraft, his exploration of space, sound and silence, his language, and the psychology of those who exercise power or who attempt to maintain their freedom in the face of oppression. The reception and reworking of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations round off this wide-ranging study.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Hammond, Nicholas

Hammond, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny

Nicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond

Prologue: Sound and Space in Bajazet and Mithridate

Nicholas Hammond

Part 1: Bajazet

1 Staging Bajazet in 1672: Some Problems in Spatial Dynamics

Michael Hawcroft

2 ‘Fausses fiertés’: Cruel Pleasures in Bajazet

Joseph Harris

3 Roxane ou la compassion monstrueuse

Jennifer Tamas

4 The Sultaness de Johnson, ou l’héritage trahi de Racine

Tristan Alonge

5 Alan Hollinghurst, Derek Jarman, and the Lesson of Racine

Denis Flannery

Part 2: Mithridate

6 The Vanishing Sentence: La Calprenède and Racine

Michael Moriarty

7 Racine’s Mithridate: the Orders of Charisma

Henry Phillips

8 Racine’s Mithridate: the Tragic Course of Political Tyranny

Rebecca Kingston

9 Mithridate and the Temporal Contradictions of Heroism

Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

10 Mozart’s Mitridate: ‘une tragédie rectifiée’?

Mark Austin

Epilogue: Racine’s Endings

Paul Hammond

Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Themes

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Hammond is Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely, including books on Pascal, Port-Royal, and gossip, and has edited several works. His most recent book is The Powers of Sound and Song in early modern Paris (2019).

Paul Hammond 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).