THEVENET Lucie.
Phaedrus to Hippolytus: Scenes of ancient and contemporary confessions.
The Beautiful Letters
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| N° d'inventaire | 29897 |
| Format | 15 x 25 |
| Détails | 512 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251452593 |
"Phaedra to Hippolytus" - three words to evoke the confession of love that, in itself, captures the episode played out by these mythological figures. Always central throughout the variations, its consequences always prove fatal.
Beyond the references that are the tragedies of Euripides and Seneca, reference points that are nevertheless contradictory, the multiplication of plots begins as soon as we open onto the lost plays of the same Euripides and Sophocles, through the fragments or a summary recently revealed by two papyri.
The addition of a little-known ancient text, Procopius of Gaza's Description of a Work of Art , leads to a new perspective on confession and a rereading of these sources through the unpublished version he offers, mixing theatrical and iconographic references. We will follow it through the chronological prism of its highlights: love / confession / death, expanding further to an eclectic selection of three other plays – Tsvetaeva's Phaedra , Ritsos' Phaedra , Gabily's Gibiers du temps – which serve to reveal the ancient potential of the mythical plot.
A vast investigation around the scene of confession and its possibilities, theatrical and figurative, this is the invitation of the pages of Phèdre to Hippolyte, in a bridge between the ancient and the contemporary which bets on their mutual enrichment.
Beyond the references that are the tragedies of Euripides and Seneca, reference points that are nevertheless contradictory, the multiplication of plots begins as soon as we open onto the lost plays of the same Euripides and Sophocles, through the fragments or a summary recently revealed by two papyri.
The addition of a little-known ancient text, Procopius of Gaza's Description of a Work of Art , leads to a new perspective on confession and a rereading of these sources through the unpublished version he offers, mixing theatrical and iconographic references. We will follow it through the chronological prism of its highlights: love / confession / death, expanding further to an eclectic selection of three other plays – Tsvetaeva's Phaedra , Ritsos' Phaedra , Gabily's Gibiers du temps – which serve to reveal the ancient potential of the mythical plot.
A vast investigation around the scene of confession and its possibilities, theatrical and figurative, this is the invitation of the pages of Phèdre to Hippolyte, in a bridge between the ancient and the contemporary which bets on their mutual enrichment.
Beyond the references that are the tragedies of Euripides and Seneca, reference points that are nevertheless contradictory, the multiplication of plots begins as soon as we open onto the lost plays of the same Euripides and Sophocles, through the fragments or a summary recently revealed by two papyri.
The addition of a little-known ancient text, Procopius of Gaza's Description of a Work of Art , leads to a new perspective on confession and a rereading of these sources through the unpublished version he offers, mixing theatrical and iconographic references. We will follow it through the chronological prism of its highlights: love / confession / death, expanding further to an eclectic selection of three other plays – Tsvetaeva's Phaedra , Ritsos' Phaedra , Gabily's Gibiers du temps – which serve to reveal the ancient potential of the mythical plot.
A vast investigation around the scene of confession and its possibilities, theatrical and figurative, this is the invitation of the pages of Phèdre to Hippolyte, in a bridge between the ancient and the contemporary which bets on their mutual enrichment.