« Tant de chimères et de monstres fantasques » : Les visions intérieures dans les tragédies de Tristan L’Hermite

This article stresses the growing importance of inward visions in Tristan’s tragedies. The great variety of these irrational phenomena and their recurring use make them a constitutive element of the author’s tragic dramaturgy. These visions, which register the victory of imaginative derangement over the correct apprehension of reality, are nonetheless ambiguous: they invite a moralizing reading as much as an aesthetic reading aimed at engaging a spectator who must be dazzled.