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Guilt and extenuation in tragedy : variations on Racinian excuses
- Title
- Guilt and extenuation in tragedy : variations on Racinian excuses / by Edward Forman.
- Author
- Forman, Edward
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
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Details
- Description
- xi, 229 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; volume 445
- Uniform Title
- Faux titre ; no. 445.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism.
- Drama.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-3231
- ISBN
- 9789004442771
- 9004442774
- LCCN
- 2020040608
- OCLC
- 1202730179
- Author
- Forman, Edward, author.
- Title
- Guilt and extenuation in tragedy : variations on Racinian excuses / by Edward Forman.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; volume 445Faux titre ; no. 445.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1699
- Other Form:
- Online version: Forman, Edward. Guilt and extenuation in tragedy Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021] 9789004442788 (DLC) 2020040609
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-3231