Preface Glossary of Principal Greek Terms Abbreviations part 1: Modes of Tragic Agency 1 Preliminary 2 Greek Tragedy 3 Senecan Tragedy 4 French Tragedy part 2: Metamorphoses of Tragic Myth 5 Agamemnon 1 Aeschylus 2 Seneca 3 Boyer6 Oedipus 1 Sophocles 2 Seneca 3 Corneille 4 Voltaire 5 Folard 6 La Motte7 Medea 1 Euripides 2 Seneca 3 Corneille8 Phaedra 1 Euripides 2 Seneca 3 Racine part 3: Models of Freedom and Bondage 9 Preliminary Neo-classical Agency and Its Constraints10 Corneille: Cinna Discerning Liberty and Tyranny11 Corneille: Sertorius Nominalism and Liberty in the Empire of Words12 Corneille: Tite et Bérénice Tragic Freedom13 Racine: Andromaque The Bondage of Time14 Racine: Britannicus Forms of Liberty and Servitude15 Racine: Bérénice The Rhetoric of Space and Self Afterword Bibliography Index.
Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire