Jean Racine Dramatist

Author : Geoffrey Brereton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000588484

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Jean Racine by Geoffrey Brereton Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Turnell
Publisher : London : Hamilton
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015004773530

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Jean Racine - Dramatist by Martin Turnell Pdf

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1420949071

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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine by Jean Racine Pdf

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. Collected in this volume is a complete collection of Racine's dramatic works. Written between 1664 and 1691 Racine's plays draw their subject matter from historical events, mythology and the Bible. Presented in this volume are translations by Robert Bruce Boswell of the following works: "The Thebaid," "Alexander the Great," "Andromache," "The Litigants," "Britannicus," "Berenice," "Bajazet," "Mithridates," "Iphigenia," "Phaedra," "Esther," and "Athaliah."

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1420948989

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Esther by Jean Racine Pdf

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 "Esther," the penultimate of twelve plays by the author. "Esther" was written at the request of Madame de Maintenon, second wife of King Louis XIV of France, who wished Racine write some more liturgical works to be performed by the pupils of the Maison royale de Saint-Louis, a famous academy for girls. Racine's drama concerns the Biblical character of Esther, Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus, who is commonly thought to be Xerxes I.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400876075

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Racine's Mid-Career Tragedies by Jean Racine Pdf

Translated into English rhyming verse, with introductions, by Lacy Lockert, the four plays included in this volume are Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, and Iphigenie. They are significant for their inherent excellence, and for what they reveal about the development of a great dramatist. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Karl Vossler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1027061992

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Jean Racine ... by Karl Vossler Pdf

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1420949098

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The Litigants by Jean Racine Pdf

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 "The Litigants," the fourth of twelve plays by the author. Inspired by Aristophanes' "Wasps," Racine removes all political significance in this farce. As the only comedy by Racine "The Litigants" stands apart from his other works. The action of the story revolves around Judge Dandin, who in his old age has begun to go crazy. Hilarity ensues as Leander, Dandin's son, and Petit Jean, a house porter, attempt to wrangle the out of control patriarch of the family.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015033480883

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The Litigants by Jean Racine Pdf

Author : Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000011378118

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Jean Racine by Alexander Frederick Bruce Clark Pdf

Author : Ronald W. Tobin
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015041990915

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Jean Racine Revisited by Ronald W. Tobin Pdf

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.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1420948865

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Alexander the Great by Jean Racine Pdf

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 "Alexander the Great," the second of twelve plays by the author. As you would expect the drama concerns its titular character and his love for the Indian princess Cleofile. Based largely on the histories of Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, Alexander finds his pursuit of love of the Indian princess complicated by intrigues between her brother Taxilus and his ally Porus.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 142094911X

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The Thebaid by Jean Racine Pdf

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 "The Thebaid," the first of twelve plays by the author. Racine draws upon Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides' "Phoenician Women" for this drama. The play concerns the struggle and death of the young son of Oedipus, as well as that of Antigone. The plot follows that of the other Theban plays in which we find Eteocles and Polynices, two warring brothers, Jocasta, their mother, Antigone, their sister, and Menoeceus and Haemon, their two cousins. All attempt unsuccessfully to quell the conflict between these two brothers in this tragic drama.

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271037318

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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine by Jean Racine Pdf

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.&”

Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005453744

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Mid-career Tragedies by Jean Racine Pdf

Translated into English rhyming verse, with introductions, by Lacy Lockert, the four plays included in this volume are Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, and Iphigenie. They are significant for their inherent excellence, and for what they reveal about the development of a great dramatist. Originally published in 1958. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jean Racine,Ted Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015045679977

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Phedre (in a New Version by Ted Hughes) by Jean Racine,Ted Hughes Pdf

This is a new version of the Racine play by Hughes. His reputation as a dramatist is firmly established following the success of previous adaptations of Oedipus and Spring Awakening. The book will tie-in with the production starring Diana Rigg.