Guilt and Extenuation in Tragedy: Variations on Racinian Excuses (Faux Titre) - Hardcover

Forman, Edward

 
9789004442771: Guilt and Extenuation in Tragedy: Variations on Racinian Excuses (Faux Titre)
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ISBN 10: 9004442774 ISBN 13: 9789004442771
Verlag: Brill, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

This comparative literary study re-evaluates the reciprocal relationship between tragic drama and current approaches to guilt and extenuation. Focussing on Racine but ranging widely, it sheds original light on tragic archetypes (Phaedra, Oedipus, Clytemnestra, Medea and others) through the lenses of performance theory and modern attitudes towards blame.
Tragic drama and legal systems both aim to evaluate the merits of excuses provided on behalf of perpetrators of catastrophic acts. Edward Forman wittily and provocatively explores modern judicial concepts - diminished responsibility, provocation, trauma, ignorance, scapegoating - through the responses of characters in tragedy. Attention is paid to the way in which classical plays (ancient Greek and seventeenth-century French) have been re-interpreted in performance in the light of modern perceptions of human responsibility and helplessness.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edward Forman, D.Phil. (Oxford, 1978), has specialized on French theatre of all periods throughout his research and teaching career at Bristol University. His wide-ranging publications include a Historical Dictionary of French Theatre.

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Verlag
Brill
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9004442774
ISBN 13 
9789004442771
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
242
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