SOURCE: Goodkin, Richard E. “Gender Reversal in Racine's Historical and Mythological Tragedies.” Dalhousie French Studies 49 (winter 1999): 15-27.
In the following essay, Goodkin argues that, in his plays based on mythological sources in particular, Racine inverts sexual dynamics and portrays female characters as heroic and powerful and male characters as hesitant and passive.
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