Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny

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





Part 1: Bajazet


1 Staging Bajazet in 1672: Some Problems in Spatial Dynamics


?Michael Hawcroft





2 'Fausses fiertes': Cruel Pleasures in Bajazet


?Joseph Harris





3 Roxane ou la compassion monstrueuse


?Jennifer Tamas





4 The Sultaness de Johnson, ou l'heritage 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 Calprenede 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 tragedie rectifiee'?


?Mark Austin





Epilogue: Racine's Endings


?Paul Hammond





Bibliography


Index of Names


Index of Themes

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• Estudos literários: peças e dramaturgos
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800