Guilt and Extenuation in Tragedy Variations on Racinian Excuses.
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2020
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Approaches to Guilt in Tragedy and Life
- 2 Performance
- 3 Words
- 4 Phèdre
- Chapter 1 Helplessness
- 1 Fatalism in Racine
- 2 Agamemnon
- 3 The Seventeenth Century
- 4 Divine Authority
- 5 Genetic Determinism
- 6 The Sense of the Inevitable
- Chapter 2 Flaws, Errors and Excuses: Theories of Hamartia
- 1 Aristotle
- 2 Flaw versus Error
- 3 Renaissance and Pre-Classical
- 4 Racine
- 5 Hamartia Re-Assessed
- Chapter 3 Ignorance
- 1 Theories
- 2 Oedipus at Thebes and at Colonus
- 3 Deianeira
- 4 Hercules, Agave and Others
- 5 Credulity
- Macbeth and Others
- 6 Phèdre
- 7 Oedipus Revisited
- Chapter 4 Diminished Responsibility: Medea and the Crime passionnel
- 1 Euripides
- 2 Early-Modern and Modern Medeas
- 3 Corneille
- Chapter 5 Provocation: The Defence of Clytemnestra
- 1 Racine
- 2 Twentieth-century France: Giraudoux and Sartre
- 3 Marguerite Yourcenar
- 4 Jean Anouilh
- 5 Jean-Jacques Varoujean, Jean-Pierre Giraudoux
- Chapter 6 Saul, King of Israel, as Tragic Hero in French Drama
- 1 Jean de la Taille
- 2 Pierre du Ryer
- 3 Augustin Nadal
- 4 Voltaire
- 5 Alphonse de Lamartine
- 6 André Gide
- Chapter 7 Scapegoats: Passing the Buck to Snakes, Partners, Parents and Others
- 1 Parents
- 2 Teachers, Advisors, Counsellors
- 3 Spouses and Other Partners
- 4 Devils and Demons
- Bibliography
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Plays
