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Ambition, treachery, religion, and doomed love ignite Racine’s timeless tragedies.
Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah
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240 pages
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25 March 2009
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Summary
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 the bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero.
- Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra’s doomed love for her stepson Hippolytus.
- Athaliah (1691), Racine’s last and perhaps finest play, draws on the Old Testam…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199555994 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199555990 |
| Author: | Jean Racine, C.H. Sisson |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 131mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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`Sisson’s translation of the dramas is admirable. It is an accurate and sensitive rendition of the French text. The simple and flowing English creates a version which reads well and should succeed in performance too.‘Akroterion
About The Author
Jean Racine
Charles H. Sisson was a well-known poet and translator, and editor of Poetry Nation Review.
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