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, (-5[1])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 (-5[1])with her clinging to an altar of Thetis. 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 that depict her enslavement (10[1])by Neoptolemus after the Trojan War. For 10 points, name this mother of Astyanax and wife of Hector. ■END■ (0[3])

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