THÉÂTRE ET MYTHE. MYTHE ET THÉÂTRE DE DIANA-ADRIANA LEFTER
THEATER AND MYTH. MYTH AND THEATER BY DIANA-ADRIANA LEFTER

Summary/Abstract: Diana-Adriana Lefter presents, through this volume, a diachronic journey tracing the long-standing relationship between myth and theater. This is a dense and significant book in the field of theater studies, bearing the mark of a specialist in literature and myth criticism. Structured into three chapters and six appendices, Lefter's work explores the presence of the myth of Hercules' birth and the myth of Oedipus in plays from Greco-Roman Antiquity and French literature. There is a thematic structure—all the comedies in the corpus revolve around the same mythical subject, the birth of Hercules, while all the analyzed tragedies explore the myth of Oedipus—as well as a chronological structure, as the author seeks to capture the evolution of the two dramatic genres. This is a well-thought-out choice and an excellent selection of texts, as it allows for a parallel evolution: that of the dramatic genre and that of the literary adaptation of myths. .

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