Un diable de femme La Mort de Chrispe et la culture démonologique

Demonology questions the capacity of the gaze to tell truth from falsehood and deploys procedures to achieve this. Analysis of Tristan’s representation of the diabolic character of Fauste proposes to discern the echoes of this culture, still quite present in the middle of the century, on the tragic stage at the levels of dramaturgy and reception, within the framework of a constitutive principle of tragedy which relies on, among other things, a controlled illusion.