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Jean Racine
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Author : Geoffrey Brereton
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-10
Jean Racine written by Geoffrey Brereton and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Racine the practising dramatist had been in some danger of being crowded out from the numerous books on his psychology and style. In this critical study of the man and his work, first published in 1951 and this slightly revised edition originally in 1973, Dr Brereton’s guiding principle has been to make the factual basis as accurate as it can be in the light of modern research. The result is the portrait of a sensitive and attractive figure which is none the worse for being shorn of certain legends.
Jean Racine
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Author : Karl Vossler
language : en
Publisher: Frederick Ungar
Release Date : 1972
Jean Racine written by Karl Vossler and has been published by Frederick Ungar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Dramatists, French categories.
Jean Racine
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Author : John Sayer
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Jean Racine written by John Sayer and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This first biography of Racine in over half a century for an English-language readership also traces the impact of Racine over three centuries in England as well as France. The plays and their reception are reviewed, using contextual approaches as part of each phase of Racine's life-story, with excerpts and quotations translated. Racine's upbringing and work as poet and historiographer are related to the France of Louis XIV, to audiences and to advancement for this 'man from nowhere', with parallels in Britain and elsewhere. Changing attitudes to Racine are traced across the centuries, across literary movements and on stage, including recent productions. The book provides insights in the specialist field of Racine studies and seventeenth-century French literature and theatre, in comparative literary studies, particularly between France and Restoration England, and to the interaction of Racine and European cultural movements to the present day.
Jean Racine
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Author : Jules Lemaitre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001-04-01
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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 : 2011-08-31
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 2011-08-31 with Literary Collections categories.
This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine&’s plays&—a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine&’s death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed &"heroic&" couplets. While Argent&’s translation is faithful to Racine&’s text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racine&’s rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic pentameters, a verse form particularly well suited to the highly charged urgency of Racine&’s drama and the coiled strength of his verse. Complementing the translations are the illuminating Discussions and the extensive Notes and Commentaries Argent has furnished for each play. The Discussions are not offered as definitive interpretations of these plays, but are intended to stimulate readers to form their own views and to explore further the inexhaustibly rich world of Racine&’s plays. Included in the Notes and Commentary section of this translation are passages that Racine deleted after the first edition and have never before appeared in English. The full title of Racine&’s first tragedy is La Th&éba&ïde ou les Fr&ères ennemis (The Saga of Thebes, or The Enemy Brothers). But Racine was far less concerned with recounting the struggle for Thebes than in examining those indomitable passions&—in this case, hatred&—that were to prove his lifelong focus of interest. For Oedipus&’s sons, Eteocles and Polynices (the titular brothers), vying for the throne is rather a symptom than a cause of their unquenchable hatred&—so unquenchable that by the end of the play it has not only destroyed these twin brothers, but has also claimed the lives of their mother, their sister, their uncle, and their two cousins as collateral damage. Indeed, as Racine acknowledges in his preface, &“There is hardly a character in it who does not die at the end.&”
Jean Racine Troisi Me Dition
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Author : Jules Lemaître
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
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The Art Of Jean Racine
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Author : Bernard Weinberg
language : en
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1963
The Art Of Jean Racine written by Bernard Weinberg and has been published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with French drama (Tragedy) categories.
Jean Racine Revisited
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Author : Ronald W. Tobin
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Release Date : 1999
Jean Racine Revisited written by Ronald W. Tobin and has been published by Macmillan Reference USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
Jean Racine (1639-1699) is the greatest tragic dramatist of the French Classical Age, a privileged epoch that consciously sought to equal previous high moments of civilization, such as the periods of Alexander, Augustus, and the Medici. The miracle of Racine is the brilliance of his artistic career at the point in the history of western culture when the theater was under its heaviest attack. Thanks to the powerful impact of his plays, he triumphed both professionally and socially. Ronald W. Tobin's analysis presents Racine as an icon in French literature. His cosmic and disturbing vision broods over unsettling questions of good and evil, freedom and constraint, self and society, immanence and transcendence, origins and perspectives. Tobin provides a detailed explication of Racine's masterpiece Phedre (1677). His study also contains fresh insights into Racine's other plays and illuminates French classical drama as a whole.
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-10-27
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 2015-10-27 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
Chefs D Oeuvre De Jean Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1856
Chefs D Oeuvre De Jean Racine 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 1856 with categories.