Racine’s Late Greek Tragedies

About the Author

Nicholas Hammond is Professor of Early-Modern French Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He has published widely, with books on Pascal; memory and education at Port-Royal; an introduction to seventeenth-century French literature; and numerous edited and co-edited books, including The Cambridge History of French Literature (2011). His most recent monographs are Gossip, Sexuality and Scandal in France (1610-1715) (2011), and The Powers of Sound and Song in Early Modern Paris (2019). He directs the Early Modern Parisian Soundscapes, and is currently writing a monograph on Racine.

Paul Hammond is Professor of Seventeenth-Century English Literature at the University of Leeds, and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include The Strangeness of Tragedy (2009); Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire (2022); and Shakespeare’s Tragic Language (2025).

Joseph Harris is Professor of Early Modern French and Comparative Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. His publications include Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005); Inventing the Spectator: Subjectivity and the Theatrical Experience in Early Modern France (2014); and Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller (2022). He is currently working on suicide in the European Enlightenment.