Racine : from ancient myth to tragic modernity / / Mitchell Greenberg

• Autore: Greenberg Mitchell <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (306 p.)
• Disciplina: 842/.4
• Soggetto topico: French drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice : Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity -- La Thebaïde : politics and monstrous origins -- Andromaque : myth and melancholy -- Britannicus : power, perversion, and paranoia -- Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate : oriental Oedipus -- Iphigenie : sacrifice and sovereignty -- Phedre (et Hippolyte) : taboo, transgression, and the birth of democracy? -- Esther, Athalie : religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.
• Sommario/riassunto: A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist-and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author-Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination.Greenberg shows how Racine uses myth, in particular the legend of Oedipus, to achieve his emotional power. In the seventeenth-century tragedies of Racine, almost all references to physical activity were banned from the stage. Yet contemporary accounts of the performances describe vivid emotional reactions of the audience
• Titolo autorizzato: Racine
• ISBN: 0-8166-7055-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829400503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II