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Author : Charlotte Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KUL:KULGB013733
Author : Marie Pauline Rose Blaze de Bury (baronne.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600087910
Author : Michèle Longino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521025176
Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.
Author : Baroness Marie Blaze de Bury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : French drama
ISBN : BL:A0020422868
Author : Edward D. James,Gillian Jondorf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521397219
This introductory study presents Phèdre as an example of the culmination of French classical tragedy--taking into consideration the play's historical, literary and theatrical context, its relationship to other tragedies of Racine, and its influence on later European literature.
Author : Ronald W. Tobin
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015041990915
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 : C.J. Gossip
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349045181
Author : Eleanor Frances Jourdain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : French drama
ISBN : UCAL:$B14926
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Plays, French
ISBN : 0822200481
A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. "ÝThis translation ̈ is a striking tour de force" (Hudson Review). Drawings by Igor Tulipanov.
Author : Gordon Pocock
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1973-10-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
This study highlights that both Corneille and Racine were living writers, struggling to create developing forms within the strait-jacket of neo-classical decorum.
Author : Philip Tomlinson
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042013559
Arising from the activities of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century French Theatre, this volume proposes a selection of eighteen essays by internationally renowned scholars aimed at all those who value and work with the theatre of seventeenth-century France, whether in teaching, research or performance. Frequently seeking out the interfaces of these areas, the essays cover historiography (including that of opera), the theory and practice of textual editing, visualizing - in terms of both theatre architecture and the significance of playtext illustration -, approaches to study and research (including the most recent applications of computer technology), and performance studies which relate the classical canon to contemporary French and other cultures. Always suggesting new directions, challenging the epistemological bases of the very concept of French classical theatre, the essays provide a snapshot of scholarship in the field at the dawn of a new millennium, and offer an ideal opportunity to reassess its past whilst looking to its future. blurb van Faux 205 - Tomlinson
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781849439176
Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and Berenice Jean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming passion and cruelty. This volume brings together three of his greatest plays. Britannicus, the earliest, is set in the court of the young Emperor Nero, and in an atmosphere seething with erotic tension, documents the power-struggles surrounding the birth of a legendary despot. Berenice probes the hearts of two lovers as they are torn apart amidst the splendours of Imperial Rome, and in Phedra, the most famous of the three, a woman betrayed by her own desires descends into a personal hell of shame, guilt and remorse. These classic versions, by two of the country's most distinguished director-translators, prove that Racine is far from untranslatable; they offer blisteringly effective poetry, urgent plotting and powerhouse roles for both actors and actresses.
Author : Lacy Lockert
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826510493
This unique volume contains studies not only of Corneille's and Racine's tragedies but also of the best work of the lesser French-classical tragic dramatists, too generally neglected, to whom more than half of the book is devoted. Its author brings to his tasks of presentation, criticism, and appraisal a wider acquaintance, perhaps, with the drama of many lands and times than anyone who has previously written at any considerable length on the subject of French-classical tragedy. To the desirable perspective thus obtained, he joins an appreciation of good plays of every type, without prejudice either for or against any type of drama. Numerous, often lengthy, quoted passages (with an English verse translation accompanying the French in every case) exemplify the achievement and exhibit the qualities of the dramas and dramatists discussed. That portion of the author's critical work in this field which has already appeared, as introductions in his volumes of translated plays, has been much appreciated, as witness the following brief excerpts from reviews of those books: "The plays...are discussed with insight and enthusiasm."--(London) Notes and Queries. "Refreshingly original and yet free from specious pleading or naïve enthusiasm."--Chattanooga Times. "Thoughtful, discerning appraisals."--Seventeenth Century News. "An excellent critical introduction."--The Library Journal. "A judicious introduction."--Arthur Knodel in The Personalist. "The very best interpretative treatment of Corneille that has appeared."--C. Maxwell Lancaster.
Author : Will Grayburn Moore
Publisher : London ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008096573
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141392097
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but make up the defining period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna (1640), absolute power is explored in ancient Rome, while Molière's The Misanthrope (1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677), showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV national newsreader, John Edmunds became the founder-director of Aberystwyth University's department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies. Joseph Harris is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).
