The Complete Plays of Jean Racine (Hardcover)

Jean Racine

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania, 2010

027103730X / 9780271037301

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Hardcover. This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racines playsa project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racines death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed "heroic" couplets. While Argents translation is faithful to Racines text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racines rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic pentameters, a verse form particularly well suited to the highly charged urgency of Racines 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 Racines 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 Racines first tragedy is La Thebaide ou les Freres 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 passionsin this case, hatredthat were to prove his lifelong focus of interest. For Oedipuss sons, Eteocles and Polynices (the titular brothers), vying for the throne is rather a symptom than a cause of their unquenchable hatredso 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. An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine's plays. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Titel
The Complete Plays of Jean Racine (Hardcover)
Autor
Jean Racine
Verlag
Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania
Erscheinungsjahr
2010
Zustand
new
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
027103730X
ISBN-13
9780271037301

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