Packet 3: Tossup 19

A play about this woman ends with a man seeing rivers of blood and a dead couple embracing, which Michel Foucault cited in Madness and Civilization as the last great tragic depiction of madness. Jacques Rivette’s film L’Amour fou depicts rehearsals for a play about this woman, (-5[2])in which (-5[1])she plans (-5[1])to commit suicide (-5[1])after a wedding but her husband is killed by a crowd at the ceremony. This woman is accused of witchcraft in an extended agôn with (*) Hermione in a play (-5[2])that (-5[1])opens (-5[1])with her clinging (-5[2])to an altar of Thetis. (-5[2])At the end (-5[1])of a play, (-5[3])Talthybius (-5[1])carries in (-5[1])the (-5[1])body of this woman’s infant (10[1])son (10[2]-5[1])after he is thrown from (-5[1])the city walls. (10[5]-5[2])This widow (10[2])titles plays by both Euripides (-5[1])and Jean Racine (-5[2])that depict (-5[1])her (-5[1])enslavement (10[1]-5[1])by Neoptolemus after the Trojan War. (10[1]0[1])For 10 points, name this (-5[1])mother of Astyanax and wife of Hector. (0[1])■END■ (10[10]0[16])

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