4.2. The Triumph of Tragedy
The three videos that follow successively address the three major dramatic genres of the Enlightenment. Let us start here with the most prestigious of all, tragedy. Renaud Bret-Vitoz will first discuss the main issues at stake in the tragedy of the Enlightenment, while Pierre Frantz, will then present Voltaire’s masterpiece, the tragedy Zaïre (1732), in an interview.
🎞️ Somewhere between classical legacy and new philosophical issues: tragedy’s success
📥 Transcript of the video in English (PDF)