Add to ORKGThe purpose of this article is to question this uncontroversial viewpoint. While accepting that there are reasons why notions of ‘poetry’ and ‘innocence’ have predominated, it will nonetheless suggest that each of these elements needs to be treated with caution. It will attempt to show that Esther is truly dramatic in nature, and that the ‘innocence’ it projects contains a degree of moral ambiguity, enough to call into question what has been called‘Racine’s utopic attempt to make God and truth manifest on stage.
The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgivene...
This thesis explores issues of moral character found in the books of Esther. While the Hebrew Esthe...
The Mexican can serve as a good heuristic example of the theology that one finds in the Book of Esth...
The purpose of this article is to question this uncontroversial viewpoint. While accepting that the...
Racine's tragedy Esther is often presented as a religious poem extolling piety and innocence. This a...
Racine's tragedy Esther is often presented as a religious poem extolling piety and innocence. This a...
The article focuses on some of the obstacles which the French early-modern dramatists had to face w...
This article highlights some paradoxical aspects of Voltaire's admiration for Racine. He paid little...
Commentators have traditionally stressed the importance accorded to love in Racine's tragedies, ofte...
Commentators have traditionally stressed the importance accorded to love in Racine's tragedies, ofte...
In this article, the Book of Esther was interpreted in a way that was clearly not intended by the au...
In 1793 Laurent Jolicoeur, a freed black in Saint-Domingue petitions for the release of an enslaved ...
À partir d’une interrogation initiale sur l’Esther de Racine, cette étude repart de la Bible, analys...
À partir d’une interrogation initiale sur l’Esther de Racine, cette étude repart de la Bible, analys...
Cet article interroge l’opposition courante entre le désir charnel et l’amour réciproque ou vertueux...
The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgivene...
This thesis explores issues of moral character found in the books of Esther. While the Hebrew Esthe...
The Mexican can serve as a good heuristic example of the theology that one finds in the Book of Esth...
The purpose of this article is to question this uncontroversial viewpoint. While accepting that the...
Racine's tragedy Esther is often presented as a religious poem extolling piety and innocence. This a...
Racine's tragedy Esther is often presented as a religious poem extolling piety and innocence. This a...
The article focuses on some of the obstacles which the French early-modern dramatists had to face w...
This article highlights some paradoxical aspects of Voltaire's admiration for Racine. He paid little...
Commentators have traditionally stressed the importance accorded to love in Racine's tragedies, ofte...
Commentators have traditionally stressed the importance accorded to love in Racine's tragedies, ofte...
In this article, the Book of Esther was interpreted in a way that was clearly not intended by the au...
In 1793 Laurent Jolicoeur, a freed black in Saint-Domingue petitions for the release of an enslaved ...
À partir d’une interrogation initiale sur l’Esther de Racine, cette étude repart de la Bible, analys...
À partir d’une interrogation initiale sur l’Esther de Racine, cette étude repart de la Bible, analys...
Cet article interroge l’opposition courante entre le désir charnel et l’amour réciproque ou vertueux...
The paper discusses Shakespeare’s preoccupation with the Christian notions of divine love, forgivene...
This thesis explores issues of moral character found in the books of Esther. While the Hebrew Esthe...
The Mexican can serve as a good heuristic example of the theology that one finds in the Book of Esth...