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Author : Russell Pfohl
Release : 1974
Genre : Assertiveness (Psychology)
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Book Synopsis Racine's Iphigénie by : Russell Pfohl
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Author : Jean Racine
Release : 2013-01-01
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Iphigenia by : Jean Racine
Download or read book Iphigenia written by Jean Racine. This book was released on 2013-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century dramatist Jean Racine was considered, along with Moliere and Corneille, as one of the three great playwrights of his era. The quality of Racine's poetry has been described as possibly his most important contribution to French literature and his use of the alexandrine poetic line is one of the best examples of such use noted for its harmony, simplicity and elegance. While critics over the centuries have debated the worth of Jean Racine, at present, he is widely considered a literary genius of revolutionary proportions. In this volume of Racine's plays we find "Iphigenia," the ninth of twelve plays by the author. After a series of historical dramas Racine choose to return to mythological subject matter for his ninth play. As Agamemnon, King of the Greeks, prepares his navy to attack Troy, the gods quell the winds for their journey and demand the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Agamemnon's daughter. Based in part on Euripides' "Iphigenia in Aulis," Racine departs somewhat by substituting an alternative dramatic solution for the ending.
Author : Jean Baptiste Racine
Release : 2011-02-01
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis The Complete Plays of Jean Racine by : Jean Baptiste Racine
Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine written by Jean Baptiste Racine. This book was released on 2011-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third 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. In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine returns to Greek myth for the first time since Andromache. To Euripides&’s version of the tale he adds a love interest between Iphigenia and Achilles. And dissatisfied with the earlier resolutions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual death or her eleventh-hour rescue by a dea ex machina), Racine creates a wholly original character, Eriphyle, who, in addition to providing an intriguing new denouement, serves the dual dramatic purpose of triangulating the love interest and galvanizing the wholesome &“family values&” of this play by a jolt of supercharged passion.
Author : Pearl Corinne Niemi
Release : 1936
Genre : Iphigenia (Greek mythology)
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Book Synopsis The Iphigeneia of the Ancients and the Iphigénie of Racine by : Pearl Corinne Niemi
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Author : Jean Racine
Release : 1922
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Book Synopsis Racine's Greek Masterpieces by : Jean Racine
Download or read book Racine's Greek Masterpieces written by Jean Racine. This book was released on 1922. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
