Racine's Roman Tragedies : Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice /
Racine's Roman Tragedies : Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice /
Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice
edited by Nicholas Hammond, Paul Hammond.
- 1 online resource.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Racine's Imagined Rome / 1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ? / 2 Britannicus , the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero / 3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine's Bérénice / 4 'Mille bruits': Listening to Britannicus / 5 Noises Off? Bérénice 's Echo Chamber / 6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice / 7 Bérénice : Disoriented in Rome / 8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice : Problems in Spatial Dynamics / 9 Naissance des monstres : le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus / 10 Mendacity in Racine's Britannicus / 11 'D'un voile d'amitié j'ai couvert mon amour': Homoerotic Subtexts in Racine's Bérénice / 12 Bérénice : Racine between Corneille and Barthes / 13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repensée / 14 Pradon and the 'Parodie de Bérénice ' / 15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice / 16 'If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move': Translating Emotion from Racine's Bérénice (1670) to Otway's Titus and Berenice (1676) / 17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst's Berenice / Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Themes. Nicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond -- Tristan Alonge -- John D. Lyons -- Paul Hammond -- Nicholas Hammond -- Joseph Harris -- Delphine Calle -- John D. Lyons -- Michael Hawcroft -- Tony Gheeraert -- Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde -- Paul Scott -- Michael Moriarty -- Hélène Bilis -- Jan Clarke -- Susan Reynolds -- Suzanne Jones -- Denis Flannery --
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.
English, French.
9789004504813 9789004504806
10.1163/9789004504813 DOI
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Criticism and interpretation.
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 --Criticism and interpretation.
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699. Britannicus.
Historiography--Rome.
Tragedy.
Rome--In literature.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
PQ1908.R66
937.0072
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Racine's Imagined Rome / 1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ? / 2 Britannicus , the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero / 3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine's Bérénice / 4 'Mille bruits': Listening to Britannicus / 5 Noises Off? Bérénice 's Echo Chamber / 6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice / 7 Bérénice : Disoriented in Rome / 8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice : Problems in Spatial Dynamics / 9 Naissance des monstres : le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus / 10 Mendacity in Racine's Britannicus / 11 'D'un voile d'amitié j'ai couvert mon amour': Homoerotic Subtexts in Racine's Bérénice / 12 Bérénice : Racine between Corneille and Barthes / 13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repensée / 14 Pradon and the 'Parodie de Bérénice ' / 15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice / 16 'If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move': Translating Emotion from Racine's Bérénice (1670) to Otway's Titus and Berenice (1676) / 17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst's Berenice / Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Themes. Nicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond -- Tristan Alonge -- John D. Lyons -- Paul Hammond -- Nicholas Hammond -- Joseph Harris -- Delphine Calle -- John D. Lyons -- Michael Hawcroft -- Tony Gheeraert -- Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde -- Paul Scott -- Michael Moriarty -- Hélène Bilis -- Jan Clarke -- Susan Reynolds -- Suzanne Jones -- Denis Flannery --
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.
English, French.
9789004504813 9789004504806
10.1163/9789004504813 DOI
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Criticism and interpretation.
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699 --Criticism and interpretation.
Racine, Jean, 1639-1699. Britannicus.
Historiography--Rome.
Tragedy.
Rome--In literature.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
PQ1908.R66
937.0072