The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Iphigenia
Title | The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Iphigenia PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Racine |
Publisher | Penn State University Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Iphigenia. Includes critical notes and commentary.
Britannicus
Title | Britannicus PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Racine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine
Title | The Complete Plays of Jean Racine PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Racine |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2016-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0271065311 |
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.
Britannicus, by Jean Racine
Title | Britannicus, by Jean Racine PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Racine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine
Title | The Complete Plays of Jean Racine PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Racine |
Publisher | Penn State Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2016-04-28 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 0271065338 |
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.
Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire
Title | Tragic Agency in Classical Drama from Aeschylus to Voltaire PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Hammond |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2021-10-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004467378 |
Are we free agents? This perennial question is addressed by tragedy when it dramatizes the struggle of individuals with supernatural forces, or maps the inner conflict of a mind divided against itself. The first part of this book follows the adaptations of four myths as they migrate from classical Greek tragedy to Seneca and on to seventeenth-century France: the stories of Agamemnon, Oedipus, Medea, and Phaedra. Detailed linguistic analysis charts the playwrights’ contrasting assumptions about agency and autonomy. In the second part, six plays by Corneille and Racine are discussed to show how the problem of agency and free will is explored in scenarios which show protagonists who are in thrall to their past, to their rulers, or to their own ideals.
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine
Title | The Complete Plays of Jean Racine PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Baptiste Racine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2003-12-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780615124759 |