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Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny
Essays on Bajazet and Mithridate
Series: - Faux Titre Online, Volume: 463
- Faux Titre, Volume: 463
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.
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.
Nicholas Hammond is Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely, including books on Pascal, Port-Royal, and gossip, and has edited several works. His most recent book is The Powers of Sound and Song in early modern Paris (2019).
Paul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Strangeness of Tragedy (2009) and Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire (2021).
Paul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Strangeness of Tragedy (2009) and Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire (2021).
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
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
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
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
University libraries; academics in classics, French literature, and the history of political thought; undergraduate and postgraduate students of French literature; specialists in drama, especially tragedy; students and scholars in theatre studies.