Essays in English by French, Irish and German academics, which explore the relevance and interest of the tragic theatre today of the French dramatist, Jean Racine (1639-99).
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Vendeur : Tall Stories BA, Stoneyford, Irlande
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Vendeur : killarneybooks, Inagh, CLARE, Irlande
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xiv + 250 pages, NOT ex-library. Limited signs of minor handling wear, a white mark on the rear board. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text free of inscriptions and stamps. Firm secure binding. Dust jacket shows gentle shelfwear, a small area of superficial damage on the rear panel, minor residue of a removed sticker (rear panel). -- The thirteen essays in this collection by an outstanding group of French, German, and Irish scholars explore the relevance and interest of tragic theater today. They balance the exploration of themes as contemporary as the abuse and enjoyment of power, the unsettling pleasure to be derived from staged suffering, the unpredictability of the passions, and the authority of women. -- Contents: Introduction / Edric Caldicott & Derval Conroy; 1. The Racinian Hero and the Classical Theory of Characterization / Georges Forestier; 2. Racine's Use of Maxims / Jean Louis Backès; 3. Women and Power in Britannicus and Bérénice: The Battle of Blood and Tears / Christian Biet; 4. Gender, Power and Authority in Alexandre le Grand and Athalie / Derval Conroy; 5. Constructions of Identity: Mirrors of the 'Other' in Racine's Theatre / Jane Conroy; 6. Racine's 'Jacobite' Plays: The Politics of the Bible / Edric Caldicott; 7. Les frères ennemis: Racine, Molière, and 'la querelle du théâtre' / Robert McBride; 8. Voltaire, Women and Reception: Racine in the Eighteenth Century / Marc Serge Rivière; 9. Pleasure in Racine / Louis van Delft; 10. The Majesty and Pleasure of Bérénice Today / Jean-Michael Delacomptée; 11. Esther: Prototype of an Oratorio? The Collaboration of Racine and Jean-Baptiste Moreau / Susanne Hartwig & Berthold Warnecke; 12. Moreau as Teacher: The Impact of his Vocation on the Composition of Esther / Gráinne Gormley; 13. Racine and the Three Vanities / Alain Viala; Index. N° de réf. du vendeur 005419
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