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

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