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Racineâs Roman Tragedies
Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice
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- Faux Titre, Volume: 456
In two of his most famous plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.
For Racine, Rome is more than a location, it is a set of values and traditions, a space of opportunity and oppression. The contributors to this volume examine Racineâs stagecraft, his exploration of time and space, sound and silence, and the ways in which he develops his own distinctive understanding of tragedy. The reception of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations also features. In Racineâs hands, Rome becomes a state of mind, haunted by both past and future.
This book's dedicatee, Richard Parish, passed away on January 1st 2022, just before publication. We would like to dedicate this collection of essays to his memory.
For Racine, Rome is more than a location, it is a set of values and traditions, a space of opportunity and oppression. The contributors to this volume examine Racineâs stagecraft, his exploration of time and space, sound and silence, and the ways in which he develops his own distinctive understanding of tragedy. The reception of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations also features. In Racineâs hands, Rome becomes a state of mind, haunted by both past and future.
This book's dedicatee, Richard Parish, passed away on January 1st 2022, just before publication. We would like to dedicate this collection of essays to his memory.
Nicholas Hammond (DPhil Oxford 1992) is Professor of early modern French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely, including on Pascal, Port-Royal, and gossip, and has edited several books. His most recent book is The Powers of Sound and Song in early modern Paris (2019).
Paul Hammond (LittD Cambridge 1996) 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 (LittD Cambridge 1996) 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).
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Racineâs Imagined Rome
âNicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond
1 Britannicus et Béréniceâ: tragédies aristotéliciennesâ?
âTristan Alonge
2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero
âJohn D. Lyons
3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racineâs Bérénice
âPaul Hammond
4 âMille bruitsâ: Listening to Britannicus
âNicholas Hammond
5 Noises Off? Béréniceâs Echo Chamber
âJoseph Harris
6 Le public fragmenté de Titusâ: la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice
âDelphine Calle
7 Bérénice: Disoriented in Rome
âJohn D. Lyons
8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial Dynamics
âMichael Hawcroft
9 Naissance des monstresâ: Le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus
âTony Gheeraert
10 Mendacity in Racineâs Britannicus
âEmilia Wilton-Godberfforde
11 âDâun voile dâamitié jâai couvert mon amourâ: Homoerotic Subtexts in Bérénice
âPaul Scott
12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and Barthes
âMichael Moriarty
13 La Bataille des Béréniceâ: une concurrence repensée
âHélène Bilis
14 Pradon and the âParodie de Béréniceâ
âJan Clarke
15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice
âSusan Reynolds
16 âIf Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Moveâ: Translating Emotion from Racineâs Bérénice (1670) to Otwayâs Titus and Berenice (1676)
âSuzanne Jones
17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurstâs Berenice
âDenis Flannery
Bibliography
Index
Introduction: Racineâs Imagined Rome
âNicholas Hammond and Paul Hammond
Part 1: Defining Tragedy
1 Britannicus et Béréniceâ: tragédies aristotéliciennesâ?
âTristan Alonge
2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero
âJohn D. Lyons
3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racineâs Bérénice
âPaul Hammond
Part 2: Sound, Metatheatre, and Theatrical Space
4 âMille bruitsâ: Listening to Britannicus
âNicholas Hammond
5 Noises Off? Béréniceâs Echo Chamber
âJoseph Harris
6 Le public fragmenté de Titusâ: la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice
âDelphine Calle
7 Bérénice: Disoriented in Rome
âJohn D. Lyons
8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial Dynamics
âMichael Hawcroft
Part 3: Ambiguity, Concealment, and Duplicity
9 Naissance des monstresâ: Le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus
âTony Gheeraert
10 Mendacity in Racineâs Britannicus
âEmilia Wilton-Godberfforde
11 âDâun voile dâamitié jâai couvert mon amourâ: Homoerotic Subtexts in Bérénice
âPaul Scott
Part 4: Racine and His Rivals
12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and Barthes
âMichael Moriarty
13 La Bataille des Béréniceâ: une concurrence repensée
âHélène Bilis
14 Pradon and the âParodie de Béréniceâ
âJan Clarke
Part 5: Sources and Translations
15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice
âSusan Reynolds
16 âIf Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Moveâ: Translating Emotion from Racineâs Bérénice (1670) to Otwayâs Titus and Berenice (1676)
âSuzanne Jones
17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurstâs Berenice
âDenis Flannery
Bibliography
Index
University libraries; academics in classics and French literature; undergraduate and postgraduate students of French literature; specialists in drama, especially tragedy.