Racine's Roman Tragedies : Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice (Faux Titre)

Hammond, Nicholas (EDT)/ Hammond, Paul (EDT)

Brill（2022/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 396 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004504806
• DDC分類 842.4

Full Description

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.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Racine's Imagined Rome

 Nicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond

Part 1: Defining Tragedy

1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ?

 Tristan Alonge

2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero

 John D. Lyons

3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine's Bérénice

 Paul Hammond

Part 2: Sound, Metatheatre, and Theatrical Space

4 'Mille bruits': Listening to Britannicus

 Nicholas Hammond

5 Noises Off? Bérénice's Echo Chamber

 Joseph Harris

6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice

 Delphine Calle

7 Bérénice: Disoriented in Rome

 John D. Lyons

8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial Dynamics

 Michael Hawcroft

Part 3: Ambiguity, Concealment, and Duplicity

9 Naissance des monstres : Le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus

 Tony Gheeraert

10 Mendacity in Racine's Britannicus

 Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde

11 'D'un voile d'amitié j'ai couvert mon amour': Homoerotic Subtexts in Bérénice

 Paul Scott

Part 4: Racine and His Rivals

12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and Barthes

 Michael Moriarty

13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repensée

 Hélène Bilis

14 Pradon and the 'Parodie de Bérénice'

 Jan Clarke

Part 5: Sources and Translations

15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice

 Susan Reynolds

16 'If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move': Translating Emotion from Racine's Bérénice (1670) to Otway's Titus and Berenice (1676)

 Suzanne Jones

17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst's Berenice

 Denis Flannery

Bibliography

Index