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The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw ...

The period covered by this volume in the Cultural History of Tragedy set is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793. The period between these two dates saw enormous political, social and economic changes that altered European society's cultural life. Tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period, gradually saw ...

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This book analyses the relation between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state.

This book analyses the relation between an emergent modern subjectivity in seventeenth-century French literature and the contemporaneous evolution of the absolutist state.

Mitchell Greenberg is Goldwin Smith Professor of Romance Studies at Cornell University.

A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist-and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author-Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination.

Examines the theories of Freud, Sullivan, Fromm, Jacobson, and other psychologists regarding interpersonal relationships.

Professor Greenberg's lucid study examines the themes of authority, power and sexuality in Corneille's major plays.