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Fedra och Andromaque a?r Jean Racines mest bero?mda tragedier. Ha?r publiceras de i o?versa?ttning av Anders Bodega?rd som o?verfo?rt fransk-klassicismens stra?nga alexandrin till en modern och levande svenska. Magnus Florin har skrivit ett fyllig...

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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 th...

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The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright ...

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Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1...

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Jean Racine (16391699) är den främste representanten för franskklassicismen och hans betydelse för fransk teater kan knappast överskattas. I denna volym presenteras två av hans berömda tragedier Britannicus och Bérénice , i översättning av Göran O...

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Fedra percibe su inclinacion por su hijastro, Hipolito, pero la combate. Al ser informada equivocadamente de que Teseo, su marido, ha muerto, confiesa su amor a un horrorizado Hipolito. Este huye, pues su verdadero amor es Aricia. Y ahi se desenca...

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Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts ...

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This new Penguin volume includes the 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed English translations. The plays in this volume - Cinna, The Misanthrope, Andromache and Phaedra - span only thirty-seven years, but ...

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Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts ...

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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. "[This translatio...

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Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed. When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her. In h...

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"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything...

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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 f...

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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 fres...

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This is the second 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 in the three hundred years since Racine's death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan ...

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This is the second volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racines playsonly the third time such a project has been undertaken in the three hundred years since Racines death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Arg...

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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...

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This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racines playsonly the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form t...

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As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racine's last play, is "perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit." Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged ...

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As Voltaire famously opined, Athaliah, Racines last play, is perhaps the greatest masterwork of the human spirit. Its formidable antagonists, Athaliah, queen of Judah, and Jehoiada, high priest of the temple of Jerusalem, are engaged in a deadly s...

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This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racines plays. Geoffrey Alan Argents translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racines dramas, and the coiled strength of...

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This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racines plays. Geoffrey Alan Argents translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological insight of Racines dramas, and the coiled strength of...

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The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Oueen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' lov...

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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 ...

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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...

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The King is missing, presumed dead. His warrior son is braced for inheritance but is betrayed by his heart. Phaedra, the tormented Queen, has a terrifying secret that will shake Athens to its core. Based on Euripides' Hippolytus, Racine'...

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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 Prin...

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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...

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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...

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