Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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