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Author : Jean Racine
Release : 2010
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Iphigenia by : Jean Racine
Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Iphigenia written by Jean Racine. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Iphigenia. Includes critical notes and commentary.
Author : Jean Racine
Release : 1992-03-01
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Phèdre by : Jean Racine
Download or read book Phèdre written by Jean Racine. This book was released on 1992-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racine’s play Phèdre—which draws on Euripides’ tragedy Hippolytus—is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains how this particular translation—made specifically from the actor’s point-of-view—evolved from the 1957 Campbell Allen production. Containing both the French and English texts on facing pages, as well as Racine’s own preface and notes on his contemporary and classical references, this edition of Phèdre is a favorite among modern readers and is of special value to students, amateur companies, and repertory theaters alike. Translated and with a foreword by Margaret Rawlings.
Author : Martin Turnell
Release : 1972
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Jean Racine - Dramatist by : Martin Turnell
Download or read book Jean Racine - Dramatist written by Martin Turnell. This book was released on 1972. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Racine
Release : 1898
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Book Synopsis Britannicus by : Jean Racine
Download or read book Britannicus written by Jean Racine. This book was released on 1898. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Racine
Release : 2015-10-27
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis The Complete Plays of Jean Racine by : Jean Racine
Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine written by Jean Racine. This book was released on 2015-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine’s last play, is “perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit.” Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined to maintain her throne and exterminate the detested race of David; he, no less fiercely determined to overthrow this heathen queen and enthrone the orphan Joash, the scion of the house of David, whom Athaliah believes she slew as an infant ten years earlier. This boy represents the sole hope for the survival of the royal race from which is to spring the Christ. But in this play, even God is more about hate and retribution than about love and mercy. This is the fourth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays—only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the “heroic” couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet’s compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine’s is in French. Complementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive Notes and Commentary, which offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights.
