Round 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, in which (-5[1])she plans to commit suicide 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 that opens with her clinging to an altar of Thetis. (-5[1])At the end of a play, (-5[1])Talthybius carries in the body of this woman’s infant son after he is thrown from the city walls. This widow titles plays by both Euripides and Jean Racine (-5[1])that depict her enslavement (-5[1])by Neoptolemus after the Trojan War. For 10 points, name this mother of Astyanax and wife of Hector. (0[1])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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