Les lieux du politique et le tragique : du palais au panoptique La Mariane, La Mort de Sénèque et Osman de Tristan L’Hermite

In the three tragedies studied, Tristan L'Hermite constructs a world in which the site of politics is compartmentalized, split. A geographically distant offstage weighs upon it. The tension between popular spaces, hotbeds of conspiracy, and the palace; the poetics of the threshold (the door of an apartment, the banks of the river); the geopolitics of a foreign and isolated Prince: all these determine the power relations and the descent into tragedy.