Birth Marks(English, Hardcover, Goodkin Richard E.)

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Birth Marks(English, Hardcover, Goodkin Richard E.) is written by Goodkin Richard E. and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0812235509 (ISBN 10) and 9780812235500 (ISBN 13).

Through a study of the evolution of inheritance issues in seventeen tragedies written over the course of half a century the Corneille brothers, Pierre and Thomas, and by Jean Racine, Richard E. Goodkin questions the pervasive assumption that classical tragedy, a form written for the aristocracy, is informed exclusively by an aristocratic ethic. Instead, a fresh reading of both canonical and noncanonical texts demonstrates that even the most formal body of literature produced by French classical writers expresses a conflict between a declining aristocratic hierarchy based on inherited privilege and a rising capitalistic ethic that favors competition and enterprise.