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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457407303321

Autore

Greenberg Mitchell <1946->

Titolo

Canonical states, canonical stages [[electronic resource] ] : Oedipus, othering, and seventeenth-century drama / / Mitchell Greenberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1994

ISBN

0-8166-8576-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

809.2/032

Soggetti

Drama - 17th century - History and criticism

European drama - History and criticism

Self in literature

Subjectivity in literature

Patriarchy in literature

Power (Social sciences) in literature

Psychoanalysis and literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; A Note on Translations; Preface; Introduction; Chaos; Spectacle; Oedipus; Chapter 1 Shakespeare's Othello and the ""Problem"" of Anxiety; Chapter 2 Fuenteovejuna: The Ideology of Loss and the Myth of History; Chapter 3 La vida es sueno: Patriarchy's Sacrifice; Chapter 4 Playing Dead: Corneille's Canon and Absolute Tragedy; Chapter 5 Racine's Bérénice and the Allegory of Absolutism; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Greenberg offers a powerful interpretation of the classical stage in its relationship to the emergence of absolutism in Europe. The originality and strength of the book reside in its fascinating integration of texts dealing with political theory, psychoanalysis, history, and literature.