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La présente étude examinera la racine commune au spectacle et à l’introspection, en analysant l’usage de la métaphore théâtrale au sein de Bérénice. Celle-ci permettra de disséquer non seulement les interactions sociales et politiques des personnages, mais également le rapport que le personnage entretient avec lui-même, devant le théâtre de sa conscience intime. Dans Bérénice, Titus se croit sur le théâtre de l’univers. En étudiant les différents publics que se propose le nouvel empereur, cet essai montrera comment le modèle théâtral – et le modèle racinien en particulier – structure l’avènement au pouvoir de Titus.
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This article investigates how Racine’s Andromaque reflects the dominant conception of love in the 1660s, opposing prideful self-love and pure love of God. While love in Andromaque is traditionally seen as libido dominandi, Nicole’s theorisation of self-love as the desire to be loved is, I argue, more accurate in this tragedy of unreciprocated love. This desire, embodied by the three main characters, explains not only their blinding frustration in the face of impossible control, but also their fragility and utter humanity. When eventually passion seems to conquer pride, ‘l’amour racinien’ even gravitates towards a form of pure love.
In Racine et les trois publics de l’amour Delphine Calle unravels the seductive power of Racinian tragedy by turning to the 17th-century French debates on love. Whether it is staged as concupiscence or pure love, as self-love or the desire to please, love is at the heart of Racinian theatre: it sparks tragic action and moves its spectators. These spectators are threefold: the tragic lover is not only scrutinized by the real audience, who is passionate about passion, he also feels the gaze of his loved one and of his own conscience, that questions the value of his love. Following the 17th- century moralist theatre critics, this monograph aligns amorous and theatrical experiences, in order to reveal Racine’s dramaturgy of love.
In Racine et les trois publics de l’amour Delphine Calle unravels the seductive power of Racinian tragedy by turning to the 17th-century French debates on love. Whether it is staged as concupiscence or pure love, as self-love or the desire to please, love is at the heart of Racinian theatre: it sparks tragic action and moves its spectators. These spectators are threefold: the tragic lover is not only scrutinized by the real audience, who is passionate about passion, he also feels the gaze of his loved one and of his own conscience, that questions the value of his love. Following the 17th- century moralist theatre critics, this monograph aligns amorous and theatrical experiences, in order to reveal Racine’s dramaturgy of love.