Racine’s Roman Tragedies

Nicholas Hammond (DPhil Oxford 1992) is Professor of early modern French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely, including on Pascal, Port-Royal, and gossip, and has edited several books. His most recent book is The Powers of Sound and Song in early modern Paris (2019).Paul Hammond (LittD Cambridge 1996) is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Strangeness of Tragedy (2009) and Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire (2021).

• Notes on ContributorsIntroduction: Racine’s Imagined RomeNicholas Hammond and Paul HammondPart 1: Defining Tragedy1 Britannicus et Bérénice : tragédies aristotéliciennes ?Tristan Alonge2 Britannicus, the Tragic Family, and the Problem of the HeroJohn D. Lyons3 Stones Wrapped in String: The Paths Not Taken in Racine’s BérénicePaul HammondPart 2: Sound, Metatheatre, and Theatrical Space4 ‘Mille bruits’: Listening to BritannicusNicholas Hammond5 Noises Off? Bérénice’s Echo ChamberJoseph Harris6 Le public fragmenté de Titus : la métaphore théâtrale dans BéréniceDelphine Calle7 Bérénice: Disoriented in RomeJohn D. Lyons8 Staging Britannicus and Bérénice: Problems in Spatial DynamicsMichael HawcroftPart 3: Ambiguity, Concealment, and Duplicity9 Naissance des monstres : Le mal et ses doubles dans BritannicusTony Gheeraert10 Mendacity in Racine’s BritannicusEmilia Wilton-Godberfforde11 ‘D’un voile d’amitié j’ai couvert mon amour’: Homoerotic Subtexts in BérénicePaul ScottPart 4: Racine and His Rivals12 Bérénice: Racine between Corneille and BarthesMichael Moriarty13 La Bataille des Bérénice : une concurrence repenséeHélène Bilis14 Pradon and the ‘Parodie de Bérénice’Jan ClarkePart 5: Sources and Translations15 Painting and Silence: Racine and His Classical Sources for Britannicus and BéréniceSusan Reynolds16 ‘If Neither Faith nor Tears nor Means Can Move’: Translating Emotion from Racine’s Bérénice (1670) to Otway’s Titus and Berenice (1676)Suzanne Jones17 The Place of Breath in Alan Hollinghurst’s BereniceDenis FlanneryBibliographyIndex