Title : Medea - Followed by a journey on the myth of Medea - Pierre Corneille - book

Summary :

Corneille's first tragedy, followed by an anthology on the myth of Medea, from Euripides to Anouilh. Annotated edition, with a file for high school students.

The tragedy of Corneille
Abandoned and deceived by Jason, whom she still loves, Medea discovers that the father of her children is going to marry Creusa. Beside herself, the repudiated woman decides to take revenge by killing her own children.
This first tragedy by Corneille takes up the story of Medea, emphasizing the fate of a woman destroyed by passion and overcome by murderous madness.

...followed by an anthology on the myth of Medea
The anthology traces the history of rewritings of the myth of Medea from Antiquity to the present day. It focuses on highlighting the different variations that have occurred since the ancient Medea and presents successively: the Gothic and lyrical Medea, the Medea of ​​symbolist theater and the contemporary Medea.

With a critical file
Including all the resources useful to high school students to study the work:
- historical and biographical references;
- files on the main reading axes of the work;
- two groups of thematic texts;
- color iconographic documents and image readings;
- baccalaureate-type subjects for written and oral examinations.

• EAN: 9782218966644
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