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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 the hopes of
Antiochus, himself long in love with Berenice. The play pushes all
three of its principals to the brink, not of revenge but of
self-murder, before in her sublime last speech Berenice redeems and
directs them all in an act of collective abnegation.Many tears are
shed, but not a drop of blood. The effect is unconventional, and
profound: the pained acceptance of the irreconcilable in human
affairs, and the surrender, by each of the main characters, of the
person they most love. Bajazet is Racine's most violent drama; it
ends, like Phedre, with a female character's on-stage suicide, here
the culmination of a vividly described sequence of off-stage
murders. The setting, in a claustrophobic space within the harem at
Constantinople, menaced from both without and within, seems to
license a violence of emotion as well as of deed.Violent too are
the repeated reversals of fortune, and the terrifying acceleration
of the play towards its inexorable catastrophe. Alan Hollinghurst's
translation of Berenice premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London,
in October 2012 and Bajazet, at the Almeida Theatre, London, in
November 1990.
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Phaedra (Paperback, Main)
Jean Racine; Translated by Frank McGuinness
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R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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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's Phaedra reveals the
devastating potential of love and the brutality of human nature.
Phaedra, in this new version by Frank McGuinness, premiered at the
Donmar Warehouse, London, in April 2006.
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.
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.
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.
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