Passing judgment : the politics and poetics of sovereignty in French tragedy from Hardy to Racine / Hélène E. Bilis.
"The royal judge was an archetypal character in French tragedy during the 17th century. This figure impersonated the king by asserting his judicial authority and bringing order to an otherwise chaotic world. In Passing Judgment, Hélène Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type-the royal...
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[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- The critique of Le Cid : Richelieu, royal judgment, and the rules
- Failed judgments, thwarted justice : Alexandre Hardy's Scédase ou l'hospitalité violée
- The ceremony unravels : tragedy's comedic turn
- Learning from experience : on Corneille and coherence
- Corneille's Cinna and Rotrou's Crisante : a search for the emperor's judgment
- Racine and royal fathers of injustice : Mithridate and Phèdre.