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Research interests

  • Early Modern French tragedy, particularly the plays written by Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille and Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre: tragic heroines and ways of approaching their behaviour inspired by recent developments in the fields of ethics and psychoanalysis; the concept of tragic hero; the psychodynamic of characters. I have been awarded the SEMFS Amy Wygant scholarship to finalise my monograph based on this work: Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre: Female Heroism Revisited in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy (Brill, Faux Titre, forthcoming 2023). 

 

  • Cutting edge approaches to staging early modern tragedy: the readings that emerge from recent productions of these plays and the way they inform the interpretation of the text; the way twentieth and twentieth-century radical adaptations breathe new life into these dramatic texts and create connections with contemporaneity. These interests have generated a book article on contemporary adaptation: 'Faire de contraintes théâtre’ staging Bajazet at the Comédie Française' in an edited volume on Racine's Bajazet and Mithridate (Brill, Faux Titre, forthcoming 2023)

 

  • The difference between classical texts and their early modern counterparts: the way the ideas and values incorporated in these source texts were continued, developed and transformed in the light of seventeenth-century ideology and theories of tragedy creating characters who display a complex inner life enabling fruitful readings and interpretations based on modern ethical psychoanalytical theories. 

 

Keywords

  • Racine,
  • Corneille
  • Tragedy
  • Performance Analysis
  • Classical Reception
  • Feminism
  • Ethics of care
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Translation
  • Adaptation
  • Staging

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