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" Racine : "
Mitchell Greenberg.
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964022
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b718392
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Greenberg, Mitchell,1946-
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Racine : : from ancient myth to tragic modernity /\ Mitchell Greenberg.
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages)
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0816660832
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: 9780816660834
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: 9780816660841
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9780816660834
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9780816660841
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: spectacle, myth, sacrifice : Racinian tragedy and the origins of modernity -- La Thébaïde : politics and monstrous origins -- Andromaque : myth and melancholy -- Britannicus : power, perversion, and paranoia -- Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate : oriental Oedipus -- Iphigénie : sacrifice and sovereignty -- Phèdre (et Hippolyte) : taboo, transgression, and the birth of democracy? -- Esther, Athalie : religion, and revolution in Racine's heavenly city.
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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.
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Racine, Jean,1639-1699-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Racine, Jean,1639-1699
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French drama (Tragedy)-- History and criticism.
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DRAMA-- Continental European.
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French drama (Tragedy)
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- Drama.
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842/.4
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PQ1905.G68 2010eb
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