Canonical states, canonical stages : Oedipus, othering, and seventeenth-century drama
An integration of texts from political theory, psychoanalysis, history and literature, this work offers a strong interpretation of the interrelated representation of subjectivity and absolutism on the 17th-century stage.
Print Book, English, ©1994
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, ©1994
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxxix, 218 pages ; 24 cm
9780816624102, 9780816624119, 0816624100, 0816624119
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Chaos. Spectacle. Oedipus
Ch. 1. Shakespeare's Othello and the "Problem" of Anxiety
Ch. 2. Fuenteovejuna: The Ideology of Loss and the Myth of History
Ch. 3. La vida es sueno: Patriarchy's Sacrifice
Ch. 4. Playing Dead: Corneille's Canon and Absolute Tragedy
Ch. 5. Racine's Berenice and the Allegory of Absolutism