Racine’s Roman Tragedies: Essays on Britannicus and Bérénice

Contents
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Racine’s Imagined Rome
Part 1 Defining Tragedy
1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ?
2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the Hero
3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine’s Bérénice
Part 2 Sound, Metatheatre, and Theatrical Space
4 ‘Mille bruits’: Listening to Britannicus
5 Noises Off? Bérénice’s Echo Chamber
6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans Bérénice
7 Bérénice: Disoriented in Rome
8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial Dynamics
Part 3 Ambiguity, Concealment, and Duplicity
9 Naissance des monstres : le mal et ses doubles dans Britannicus
10 Mendacity in Racine’s Britannicus
11 ‘D’un voile d’amitié j’ai couvert mon amour’: Homoerotic Subtexts in Racine’s Bérénice
Part 4 Racine and His Rivals
12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and Barthes
13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repensée
14 Pradon and the ‘Parodie de Bérénice’
Part 5 Sources and Translations
15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and Bérénice
16 ‘If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move’: Translating Emotion from Racine’s Bérénice (1670) to Otway’s Titus and Berenice (1676)
17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst’s Berenice
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Themes