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This book explores the ways in which the French dramatist Jean Racine (1630-1699) uses offstage spaces in six of his major tragedies which have classical Greek or Roman settings. It argues that these offstage spaces or ‘Hinterlands’, which are apparent only in the minds and imaginations of the plays’ characters, have an important influence on what happens on stage. In many cases these Hinterlands have a mythic form, or are inhabited by classical divinities or ancestors; such powers function for the plays’ characters as the source of moral values, while also intervening to disrupt their certainties and their sense of selfhood.
Price: $92.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mini-Monographs in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Publication Date:
19 November 2026
ISBN: 9789004775206
Format: Paperback
Paul Hammond (LittD, Cambridge, 1996) is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a past Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His books include The Strangeness of Tragedy (2009), Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire (2022), and Shakespeare’s Tragic Language (2025).