...Ronan Y. Chalmin Copyright © 2015 The Trustees of Columbia University 2015 Ronan ~ Chalmin BRITANNICUS, TRAGEDIE DU PLAIRE D e toutes les regles que requiert ce qu'on nomme Ie « commerce du monde » a l'age classique, plaire est sans doute la premiere 1. Moliere, dans La Critique de recole des...

...Ronald W. Tobin Copyright © 2016 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2016 Britannicus or the Secrets of Space Ronald W. Tobin Britannicus or the Secrets of Space Il faut que, lorsque le mouvement cesse sur la scène, il continue derrière. Diderot, De la poésie...

..., dans les espaces solitaires de la vie quotidienne. Britannicus, la piece suivante de Racine, intitulee "tragedie" et mise en scene pour la premiere fois en 1670, presente un probleme analogue puisque Ie protagoniste eponyme est absent du denouement de la pieCe21 Dans sa discussion de la focalisation...

... continues the interest that Racine shows elsewhere in the links between absolute sovereignty and absolute submission. In Britannicus, for instance, he relies on the implied message that Louis XIV, the absolute monarch, is a good king because he liberates his population from slavery, i.e. their routine...

..., Ronald W. Tobin has written of "the manner in which Racine consciously avoid[s] admitting his debt to Seneca"(80). In Racine's profane theater "obvious" links to Seneca can be found in four or five of the nine tragedies: for La Thebaide, cf. Phoenissae; Andromaque, cf. Troades; Britannicus (and perhaps...

... theatre. Toutes les pieces ecrites entre 1669 et 1670 mettent en scene soit des esclaves assis sur Ie trone (Bajazet) soit des esclaves ayant une influence directe sur les monarques (Britannicus, Berenice). Dans les trois cas, Racine reproduit la vue bien connue que la servilite implique une ethique vile...

... on the act of naming; the obvious example is that Racine's Phedre has CEnone name Hippolyte as the object of her passion in a bid to exculpate herself (1.3). It is also the case that several early modern plays are named after apparently secondary characters, such as Cinna and Britannicus. Nonetheless...