CALIGULA, TYRAN DÉRISOIRE DANS LE CALIGULA D’ALEXANDRE DUMAS
TYRANNY AND DERISION IN ALEXANDRE DUMAS’ CALIGULA
Author(s): Rémy PoignaultSubject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, French Literature, Philology
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: Latin historiography; drama; destiny; machinations; tyranny;
Summary/Abstract: Tyranny and Derision in Alexandre Dumas’ Caligula. This paper studies the character of Caligula in Alexandre Dumas’ Caligula (1837) in comparison with the image left by the Roman emperor in ancient literary sources. Dumas highlights a tyrannical regime based on denial and flattery, shows the emperor as a tyrannical lover and mocks aspirations to the divinity of the one who takes himself for Jupiter, but is afraid of thunder, who wants to be the master of the destiny of all, but doesn’t master his own, falling under Messalina’s machinations.
Journal: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai - Dramatica
- Issue Year: 65/2020
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 73-95
- Page Count: 23
- Language: French