Le génie de Néron : l’hypotypose comme subversion de la rhétorique dans Britannicus de Racine
Nero’s Genius: Hypotyposis as Subversion of Rhetoric in Racine’s Britannicus

Summary/Abstract: Since the eighteenth-century, painting and harmony have regularly been celebrated by criticism in Racine’s verses. With the decline of rhetoric, the sedimentation of literature has quickly covered what depended on art of speech. The subversion of rhetoric, in Britannicus’ hypotyposis, could have contributed to this phenomena. As a bad orator, Nero looks at Junie with a careless look. Judicium can be outflanked by ingenium: paying no attention to the natural signs of the èthos, Nero adopts sophistry and her charms.

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