The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine Athaliah
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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
Publisher:
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.
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.&”
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine The Fratricides
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine The Fratricides 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 2010 with French drama categories.
An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine's plays.
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.
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.
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine Britannicus
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Release Date : 2010
The Complete Plays Of Jean Racine Britannicus 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 2010 with French drama categories.
An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Britannicus. Includes critical notes and commentary.
Athaliah
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher: Digireads.Com
Release Date : 2013-01-01
Athaliah written by Jean Racine and has been published by Digireads.Com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-01 with Drama categories.
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 "Athaliah," the last of twelve plays by the author. Considering that it was Racine's final work it may comes as no surprise that it has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known." Revered by Voltaire who saw it as "perhaps the masterpiece of mankind" and by Flaubert who referred to it as an "immortal masterpiece of the French stage." The story itself concerns the biblical story of Athaliah, widow of the king of Judah who rules the country as Queen regnant. Believing that the rest of the royal family was been eliminated she abandons the Jewish religion for the worship of Baal.
Jean Racine Athaliah
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Author : Jean Racine
language : en
Publisher:
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.