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Comparative literature --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- European drama (Tragedy) --- Tragedy --- Tragédie européenne --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Tragédie --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism --- Tragédie européenne --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Tragédie --- European drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Drama - 17th century - History and criticism --- Tragedy - History and criticism --- Litterature baroque --- Tragedie --- 17e siecle

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Originating probably in some oral cautionary tale, the Phaedra story illustrates a peculiar pattern of transgression and retribution. This Phaedra syndrome provided inspiration for many major writers from Euripides to Gabriele d'Annunzio. The present book offers a close re-reading and a re-assessment of four acknowledged masterpieces - Euripides' Hippolutos, Seneca's Phaedra, Lope de Vega's Castigo sin venganza and Racine's Phèdre: together with Lope's Italian source. Matteo Bandello's Novella 44, they all deal with the old tale or none of its analogues. While paying minute comparative attention to the texts, it aims at clarifying the relevance of each work for the meandrous evolution of religious beliefs and ethical criteria in the history of European society, ranging from Democritus' effort to react against his contemporaries' archaic shame-culture attitudes to Latin Stoicism, to the syncretic Baroque outlook in siglo de oro drama and to the radical puritanical inwardness of French Jansenism. The last two chapters offer an original interpretation of Phèdre as the supreme poetic utterance of Racine's confusion and perplexity in front of the unresolved contradictions in his faith; a case is made in the Conclusion the view that the puzzled and puzzling mood of this mysterious play exemplifies the new mind-set that was paving the way for Enlightenment rationalism and the ensuing dechristianisation of the Western intelligentsia... Back Cover.

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Phaedra (Greek mythology) in literature. --- European drama (Tragedy) --- Guilt in literature. --- Shame in literature. --- Phèdre (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Tragédie européenne --- Littérature comparée --- Culpabilité dans la littérature --- Honte dans la littérature --- Greek influences. --- Themes, motives --- Influence grecque --- Thèmes, motifs --- Phèdre (Mythologie grecque) dans la littérature --- Tragédie européenne --- Littérature comparée --- Culpabilité dans la littérature --- Honte dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Phaedra --- Themes, motives.

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- Drama --- anno 1600-1699 --- Object (Filosofie) in de literatuur --- Object (Philosophy) in literature --- Objet (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- European drama (Tragedy) --- European drama --- Object (Philosophy) in literature. --- Tragédie européenne --- Théâtre européen --- Themes, motives --- Thèmes, motifs --- English drama (Tragedy) --- English drama --- French drama (Tragedy) --- French drama --- Dutch drama (Tragedy) --- Dutch drama --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- Tragédie européenne --- Théâtre européen --- Objet (Philosophie) dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 --- 17th century --- 16th century --- Early modern, 1500-1700 --- English drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- English drama - Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 - History and criticism --- English drama - 17th century - History and criticism --- French drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- French drama - 16th century - History and criticism --- French drama - 17th century - History and criticism --- Dutch drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism --- Dutch drama - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism