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The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine Athaliah
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine Athaliah 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 2010 with Literary Collections categories.
"An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of The Fratricides, a play by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine"--Provided by publisher.
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.
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
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Release Date : 2012
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"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."--Project Muse.
Jean Racine Athaliah
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
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Release Date : 2015-06-05
Jean Racine Athaliah 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 2015-06-05 with French drama categories.
"Athaliah" (in French, "Athalie") is the final and longest play written by the great French dramatist Jean Racine, and had its debut in Paris in 1691. The drama is based on the story of the little-known Old Testament character Queen Athaliah, and covers the events of the day of her downfall, when she confronts the forces set against her in the Jewish temple under High Priest Jehoiada. Over the centuries, critical reviews of the play have been mixed, including high acclaim as the most astonishing work of French theatre, and as an unfading literary masterpiece. This translation of the work, seeking to capture Racine's mastery of the discipline imposed on him by alexandrine versification, paraphrases the text into rhyming English couplets which strive to imitate, as far as possible, the poetic structure of the original. Accordingly, this version of Racine's Athaliah is an exemplar to English readers of what French 17th century theatre, in its full resonance, is capable of being, and how it differs, for example, from the Shakespearean tradition.
Athalie
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Author : Jean Racine
language : fr
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Release Date : 2019-09-07
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Jean RACINE (1639-1699), fut �duqu� par les jans�nistes de Port Royal. Ses trag�dies d�rivent de plusieurs sources: Andromaque (1667), Iphig�nie (1674) et Ph�dre (1677), de la litt�rature latine et grecque; Britannicus (1669), B�r�nice (1670) et Mithridate (1673), de l�histoire romaine; Bajazet (1672) de l�histoire turque contemporaine; et Esther (1689) et Athalie (1691) de la Bible. Il �crivit aussi une com�die dans le style d�Aristophane, Plaideurs (1668). L�id�e centrale de la majorit� de ses trag�dies est la perception de la folie aveugle de la passion humaine, asservie en permanence � la poursuite de ses objectifs et toujours vou�e � l��chec.
Athaliah
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-05-09
Athaliah written by Jean Racine and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-09 with categories.
"Athaliah" from Jean Racine. French dramatist (1639-1699).
Athalie
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Author : Jean Racine
language : fr
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Release Date : 1866
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Jean Racine Four Greek Plays
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1982-04-29
Jean Racine Four Greek Plays written by Jean Racine and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-04-29 with Drama categories.
This is the best translation into English of Andromache, Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah.
Athaliah Esprios Classics
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Author : Jean Baptiste Racine
language : en
Publisher: Blurb
Release Date : 2021-07-28
Athaliah Esprios Classics written by Jean Baptiste Racine and has been published by Blurb this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-28 with Fiction categories.
Athalie (sometimes translated Athalia) is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to Oedipus Rex in beauty, with "the true God added." August Wilhelm Schlegel thought Athalie to be "animated by divine breath"; other critics have regarded the poetics of drama in the play to be superior to those of Aristotle.
Athalie
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Author : Jean Racine
language : fr
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Release Date : 1895
Athalie 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 1895 with French drama categories.