Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny : Essays on Bajazet and Mithridate (Faux Titre)

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

Brill（2024/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 205 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004695139
• DDC分類 842.4

Full Description

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.

Contents

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