Racine’s Tragedies of Tyranny

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004695680
Total Pages : 245 pages
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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.

Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny

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ISBN 13 : 9789004695139
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Racine's Mid-Career Tragedies

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400876079
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Racine's Mid-Career Tragedies written by Jean Racine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Tragedies of Tyrants

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745573
Total Pages : 217 pages
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Download or read book Tragedies of Tyrants written by Rebecca Weld Bushnell and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Tragedies of Tyrants".

Phedra

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486419275
Total Pages : 64 pages
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Download or read book Phedra written by Jean Racine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Euripides' Hippolytus, this play by one of France's greatest playwrights is a magnificent example of character exposition. When the title character, Hippolytus' stepmother, receives false information that her husband, Theseus, is dead, Phedra reveals a passionate love for her stepson — an act that eventually spells doom for both characters.

Andromache

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Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822200482
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Andromache written by Jean Racine and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1982 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Best Plays of Racine

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886481
Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Best Plays of Racine written by Jean Racine and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Racine's masterpieces--Andromaque, Britannicus, Phedre, and Athalie--are translated into English verse. The introduction and notes by Mr. Lockert guide the reader to a greater understanding of the plays. Originally published in 1966. 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.

Three Plays of Racine

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226150772
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book Three Plays of Racine written by Jean Racine and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1961-09-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the planning, building, and use of canals in nineteenth-century America and their impact on the history, economy, and westward expansion of the United States.

The Thebaid

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Publisher : Digireads.Com
ISBN 13 : 9781420949117
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book The Thebaid written by Jean Racine and published by Digireads.Com. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037318
Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine written by Jean Racine and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Litigants

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Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781359293626
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Litigants written by Jean Racine and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: The fratricides

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Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: The fratricides written by Jean Racine and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine's plays.

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271048603
Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book The Complete Plays of Jean Racine written by Jean Baptiste Racine and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the third 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. In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine returns to Greek myth for the first time since Andromache. To Euripides&’s version of the tale he adds a love interest between Iphigenia and Achilles. And dissatisfied with the earlier resolutions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual death or her eleventh-hour rescue by a dea ex machina), Racine creates a wholly original character, Eriphyle, who, in addition to providing an intriguing new denouement, serves the dual dramatic purpose of triangulating the love interest and galvanizing the wholesome &“family values&” of this play by a jolt of supercharged passion.

Racine’s Roman Tragedies

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504818
Total Pages : 409 pages
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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.

Andromache and Other Plays

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Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Andromache and Other Plays written by Jean Racine and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1967 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Racine's Tragedy of Phaedra

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Total Pages : 50 pages
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Download or read book Racine's Tragedy of Phaedra written by Jean Racine and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean Racine: Four Greek Plays

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521286763
Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Jean Racine: Four Greek Plays written by Jean Racine and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1982-04-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the best translation into English of Andromache, Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah.