Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Mythifying matrix: Corneille's Médée and the birth of tragedy
- 2 Le Cid: Father/Time
- 3 Horace, Classicism and female trouble
- 4 Cinna: empty mirrors
- 5 Polyeucte: seeing is believing
- 6 Nicomède, Rodogune, Suréna: monsters, melancholy and the end of the ancien régime
- Notes
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 October 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Mythifying matrix: Corneille's Médée and the birth of tragedy
- 2 Le Cid: Father/Time
- 3 Horace, Classicism and female trouble
- 4 Cinna: empty mirrors
- 5 Polyeucte: seeing is believing
- 6 Nicomède, Rodogune, Suréna: monsters, melancholy and the end of the ancien régime
- Notes
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Corneille, Classicism and the Ruses of Symmetry , pp. 187 - 189Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986