In the Wake of Medea examines the violence of seventeenth-century French political dramas.
French tragedy has traditionally been taken to be a passionless, cerebral genre that refused all forms of violence.
This book explores the rhetorical, literary, and performance strategies through which violence persists, contextualizing it in a longer literary and philosophical history from Ovid to Pasolini.
The mythological figure of Medea, foreigner who massacres her brother, murders kings,.
Fordham University Press In the wake of medea: neoclassical theater and the arts of destruction, paperback/juliette cherbuliez
