The Relationship between Mother and Child in Staël’s Playwriting

Authors

  • Simona Jișa Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Keywords:

theatre, Germaine de Staël×, maternal relationship, romanticism

Abstract

The article aims to analyse the plays of Germaine de Staël Agar dans le désert, Geneviève de Brabant and La Sunamite, considered as serious dramas, brought together in the perspective of the maternal relationship. The maternal archetype follows the form of the mater dolorosa capable of the greatest sacrifices. The child is seen as being inseparable from the mother and is often an innocent victim of human sins. Passionate love as the essential coordinate of romanticism is replaced by maternal love and by the love of God. The plays have a clear moralizing value, but the pathos of declamation and the introspection, characteristic of romanticism, are well visible.

Author Biography

Simona Jișa, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Simona Jișa is Senior Lecturer HDR at the Faculty of Letters, University Babeș-Bolyai,
Cluj-Napoca (Romania). She teaches modern and contemporary French literature, is
director of the Master Degree in Francophone Literature, teaching a course on French
literature from the North and the South. She has published several works on Dominique
Fernandez, Jean Rouaud and Pascale Roze.

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Published

2021-02-02

How to Cite

Jișa, S. (2021). The Relationship between Mother and Child in Staël’s Playwriting. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai - Dramatica, 65(2), 57–71. Retrieved from https://dramatica.ro/index.php/j/article/view/52

Issue

Vol. 65 No. 2 (2020): To be a Theatre Critic and Historian Nowadays. In memoriam MARIA VODĂ CĂPUȘAN (1940 – 2017)

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