Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire / / Paul Hammond.
Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical G...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Glossary of Principal Greek Terms
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Modes of Tragic Agency
- Chapter 1 Preliminary
- Chapter 2 Greek Tragedy
- Chapter 3 Senecan Tragedy
- Chapter 4 French Tragedy
- Part 2 Metamorphoses of Tragic Myth
- Chapter 5 Agamemnon
- 1 Aeschylus
- 2 Seneca
- 3 Boyer
- Chapter 6 Oedipus
- 1 Sophocles
- 2 Seneca
- 3 Corneille
- 4 Voltaire
- 5 Folard
- 6 La Motte
- Chapter 7 Medea
- 1 Euripides
- 2 Seneca
- 3 Corneill
- Chapter 8 Phaedra
- 1 Euripides
- 2 Seneca
- 3 Racine
- Part 3 Models of Freedom and Bondage
- Chapter 9 Preliminary Neo-classical Agency and Its Constraints
- Chapter 10 Corneille: Cinna Discerning Liberty and Tyranny
- Chapter 11 Corneille: Sertorius Nominalism and Liberty in the Empire of Words
- Chapter 12 Corneille: Tite et Bérénice Tragic Freedom
- Chapter 13 Racine: Andromaque The Bondage of Time
- Chapter 14 Racine: Britannicus Forms of Liberty and Servitude
- Chapter 15 Racine: Bérénice The Rhetoric of Space and Self
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index.