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The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2016-04-28
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine written by Jean Racine and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-28 with Literary Collections categories.
This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays. Geoffrey Alan Argent’s translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racine’s dramas, and the coiled strength of his verse, while breathing new vigor into the time-honored form of the “heroic” couplet. Complementing this translation are the Discussion and the Notes and Commentary—particularly detailed and extensive for this volume, Britannicus being by far Racine’s most historically informed play. Also noteworthy is Argent’s reinstatement of an eighty-two-line scene, originally intended to open Act III, that has never before appeared in an English translation of this play. Britannicus, one of Racine’s greatest plays, dramatizes the crucial day when Nero—son of Agrippina and stepson of the late emperor Claudius—overcomes his mother, his wife Octavia, his tutors, and his vaunted “three virtuous years” in order to announce his omnipotence. He callously murders his innocent stepbrother, Britannicus, and effectively destroys Britannicus’s beloved, the virtuous Junia, as well. Racine may claim, in his first preface, that this tragedy “does not concern itself at all with affairs of the world at large,” but nothing could be further from the truth. The tragedy represented in Britannicus is precisely that of the Roman Empire, for in Nero Racine has created a character who embodies the most infamous qualities of that empire — its cruelty, its depravity, and its refined barbarity.
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine
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Author : Racine, Jean
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2014-08-04
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine written by Racine, Jean and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-04 with Literary Collections categories.
This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays. Geoffrey Alan Argent’s translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racine’s dramas, and the coiled strength of his verse, while breathing new vigor into the time-honored form of the “heroic” couplet. Complementing this translation are the Discussion and the Notes and Commentary—particularly detailed and extensive for this volume, Britannicus being by far Racine’s most historically informed play. Also noteworthy is Argent’s reinstatement of an eighty-two-line scene, originally intended to open Act III, that has never before appeared in an English translation of this play. Britannicus, one of Racine’s greatest plays, dramatizes the crucial day when Nero—son of Agrippina and stepson of the late emperor Claudius—overcomes his mother, his wife Octavia, his tutors, and his vaunted “three virtuous years” in order to announce his omnipotence. He callously murders his innocent stepbrother, Britannicus, and effectively destroys Britannicus’s beloved, the virtuous Junia, as well. Racine may claim, in his first preface, that this tragedy “does not concern itself at all with affairs of the world at large,” but nothing could be further from the truth. The tragedy represented in Britannicus is precisely that of the Roman Empire, for in Nero Racine has created a character who embodies the most infamous qualities of that empire — its cruelty, its depravity, and its refined barbarity.
Britannicus By Jean Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
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Britannicus
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Author : Jean Racine
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1855
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Britannicus
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
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Release Date : 1898
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Three Plays Of Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1961-09-15
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Describes the planning, building, and use of canals in nineteenth-century America and their impact on the history, economy, and westward expansion of the United States.
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2014-08-15
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine written by Jean Racine and has been published by Penn State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Drama categories.
This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays. Geoffrey Alan Argent's translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racine's dramas, and the coiled strength of his verse, while breathing new vigor into the time-honored form of the "heroic" couplet. Complementing this translation are the Discussion and the Notes and Commentary--particularly detailed and extensive for this volume, Britannicus being by far Racine's most historically informed play. Also noteworthy is Argent's reinstatement of an eighty-two-line scene, originally intended to open Act III, that has never before appeared in an English translation of this play. Britannicus, one of Racine's greatest plays, dramatizes the crucial day when Nero--son of Agrippina and stepson of the late emperor Claudius--overcomes his mother, his wife Octavia, his tutors, and his vaunted "three virtuous years" in order to announce his omnipotence. He callously murders his innocent stepbrother, Britannicus, and effectively destroys Britannicus's beloved, the virtuous Junia, as well. Racine may claim, in his first preface, that this tragedy "does not concern itself at all with affairs of the world at large," but nothing could be further from the truth. The tragedy represented in Britannicus is precisely that of the Roman Empire, for in Nero Racine has created a character who embodies the most infamous qualities of that empire -- its cruelty, its depravity, and its refined barbarity.
Brittanicus
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Oberon Books
Release Date : 1998
Brittanicus written by Jean Racine and has been published by Oberon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Drama categories.
This new version will open at The Albery Theatre (an Almeida Theatre production) will open October 1998, with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens.
Britannicus
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Author : Howard S. Rubenstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
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Two Tragedies
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1714
Two Tragedies written by Jean Racine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1714 with categories.