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Author : Jean Racine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Racine's Berenice written by Jean Racine and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitchell Greenberg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816660832
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Racine written by Mitchell Greenberg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist-and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author-Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays' continued fascination. Greenberg shows how Racine uses myth, in particular the legend of Oedipus, to achieve his emotional power. In the seventeenth-century tragedies of Racine, almost all references to physical activity were banned from the stage. Yet contemporary accounts of the performances describe vivid emotional reactions of the audiences, who were often reduced to tears. Greenberg demonstrates how Racinian tragedy is ideologically linked to Absolutist France's attempt to impose the "order of the One" on its subjects. Racine's tragedies are spaces where the family and the state are one and the same, with the result that sexual desire becomes trapped in a closed, incestuous, and highly formalized universe. Greenberg ultimately suggests that the politics and sexuality associated with the legend of Oedipus account for our attraction to charismatic leaders and that this confusion of the state with desire explains our continued fascination with these timeless tragedies.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504818
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Racine’s Roman Tragedies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In two of his most celebrated plays, Britannicus and Bérénice, Racine depicts the tragedies of characters trapped by the ideals, desires, and cruelties of ancient Rome. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts.
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (686 download)
Download or read book Racine's Berenice written by Jean Racine and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Hollinghurst
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571299091
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Berenice and Bajazet written by Alan Hollinghurst and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critical event in Berenice, the death of Titus's father, the Emperor Vespasian, happens a week before the play opens. Thereafter Titus knows that his separation from Berenice is inevitable. The breaking off of a great love affair involves too the hopes of Antiochus, himself long in love with Berenice. The play pushes all three of its principals to the brink, not of revenge but of self-murder, before in her sublime last speech Berenice redeems and directs them all in an act of collective abnegation.Many tears are shed, but not a drop of blood. The effect is unconventional, and profound: the pained acceptance of the irreconcilable in human affairs, and the surrender, by each of the main characters, of the person they most love. Bajazet is Racine's most violent drama; it ends, like Phèdre, with a female character's on-stage suicide, here the culmination of a vividly described sequence of off-stage murders. The setting, in a claustrophobic space within the harem at Constantinople, menaced from both without and within, seems to license a violence of emotion as well as of deed.Violent too are the repeated reversals of fortune, and the terrifying acceleration of the play towards its inexorable catastrophe. Alan Hollinghurst's translation of Berenice premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in October 2012 and Bajazet, at the Almeida Theatre, London, in November 1990.
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Berenice/The Misanthrope & The School For Wives written by Jean Racine and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 1990-05-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also includes Racine's "Berenice" and Moline's "Le Misanthrope."
Author : Katherine E. Wheatley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477307001
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Racine and English Classicism written by Katherine E. Wheatley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary historians and critics who have written on the influence of Racine in England during the neoclassical period apparently have assumed that the English translators and adapters of Racine’s plays in general succeeded in presenting the real Racine to the English public. Katherine Wheatley here reveals the wide discrepancy between avowed intentions and actual results. Among the English plays she compares with their French originals are Otway’s Titus and Berenice, Congreve’s The Mourning Bride, and Philips’s The Distrest Mother. These comparisons, fully supported by quoted passages, reveal that those among the English public and contemporary critics who could not themselves read French had no chance whatever to know the real Racine: “The adapters and translators, so-called, had eliminated Racine from his tragedies before presenting them to the public.” Unacknowledged excisions and additions, shifts in plot, changes in dénouement, and frequent mistranslation turned Racine’s plays into “wretched travesties.” Two translations of Britannicus, intended for reading rather than for acting, are especially revealing in that they show which Racinian qualities eluded the British translators even when they were not trying to please an English theatergoing audience. Why it is, asks the author, that no English dramatist could or would present Racine as he is to the English public of the neoclassical period? To answer this question she traces the development of Aristotelian formalism in England, showing the relation of the English theory of tragedy to French classical doctrine and the relation of the English adaptations of Racine to the English neoclassical theory of tragedy. She concludes that “deliberate alterations made by the English, far from violating classical tenets, bring Racine’s tragedies closer to the English neoclassical ideal than they were to begin with, and this despite the fact that some tenets of English doctrine came from parallel tenets widely accepted in France.” She finds that “in the last analysis, French classical doctrine was itself a barrier to the understanding of Racinian tragedy in England and an incentive to the sort of change English translators and adapters made in Racine.” This paradox she explains by the fact that Racine himself had broken with the classical tradition as represented by Corneille.
Author : Mary Reilly
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039102860
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Racine written by Mary Reilly and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the nature of power in Racinian tragedy? This study looks beyond the conventional pageant of political power in the plays by exploring tensions inherent in the very concept of power, with each chapter elucidating how Racine's power relationships are concentrated in the question of language.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004695680
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bajazet and Mithridate Racine depicts the tragedies of characters who either wield tyrannic power or are subjected to tyranny. This international collection of essays deploys cutting-edge research to illuminate the plays and their contexts. The contributors to this volume examine Racine’s stagecraft, his exploration of space, sound and silence, his language, and the psychology of those who exercise power or who attempt to maintain their freedom in the face of oppression. The reception and reworking of his plays by contemporaries and subsequent generations round off this wide-ranging study.
Author : Gordon Pocock
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Corneille and Racine written by Gordon Pocock and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1973-10-18 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Roland Racevskis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756843
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Tragic Passages written by Roland Racevskis and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a theoretically informed reading of Racine's nine secular tragedies, from La Thebaide (1664) to Phedre (1677). This study focuses on literary/theatrical constructions of space, time, and identity.
Author : James J. Supple
Publisher : Foyles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Racine, Bérénice written by James J. Supple and published by Foyles. This book was released on 1986 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Lynne Flowers
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838620564
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Sentence Structure and Characterization in the Tragedies of Jean Racine written by Mary Lynne Flowers and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sentence structure in Racine is demonstrated to be a powerful tool for characterization, and here, basic features are explored in the seven tragedies of Racine--terminal punctuation, sentence length, sentence type, use of questions and the conditional, and rapid-fire exchanges between characters.
Author : John Sayer
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039109258
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Jean Racine written by John Sayer and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jean Racine
Publisher : Delphi Classics
ISBN 13 : 1801701393
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Delphi Complete Works of Jean Racine (Illustrated) written by Jean Racine and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the three great playwrights of seventeenth century France, along with Molière and Corneille, Jean Racine is as a significant figure of world literature. Primarily a tragedian, producing neoclassical masterpieces such as ‘Phèdre’, ‘Andromaque’ and ‘Athalie’, Racine also composed the comedy ‘Les Plaideurs’. His works demonstrate a mastery of the 12-syllable French alexandrine — a verse form that influenced European literature for over two centuries. Renowned for their elegance, purity, speed and fury, Racine’s dramas are characterised by psychological insight, the prevailing passion of characters and the economy of both plot and stage. This eBook presents Racine’s complete plays, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Racine’s life and works * Concise introductions to the dramas * All 12 plays, with individual contents tables * Translations by Robert Bruce Boswell, 1880 * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the play texts * Easily locate the scenes you want to read * Includes rare dramas – available in no other collection * Features four biographies – discover Racine’s intriguing life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres CONTENTS: The Tragedies The Thebaid (1664) Alexander the Great (1665) Andromache (1667) Britannicus (1669) Berenice (1670) Bajazet (1672) Mithridate (1673) Iphigenia (1674) Phaedre (1677) Esther (1689) Athaliah (1691) (tr. J. Donkersley, 1825) The Comedy The Litigants (1668) The Biographies Racine (1838) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Racine (1900) by William Cleaver Wilkinson Racine (1908) by Lytton Strachey Jean Racine (1911) by George Saintsbury
Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Works: Prefatory note. Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronology of Otway's plays. Alcibiades. Don Carlos. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Otway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Prefatory note. Note as to the text. Introduction. Chronology of Otway's plays. Alcibiades. Don Carlos. Titus and Berenice. The cheats of Scapin written by Thomas Otway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
