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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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 make up the defining
period of French theatre. In Corneille's Cinna (1640), absolute
power is explored in ancient Rome, while Moliere's The Misanthrope
(1666), the only comedy in this collection, sees its anti-hero
outcast for his refusal to conform to social conventions. Here also
are two key plays by Racine: Andromache (1667), recounting the
tragedy of Hector's widow after the Trojan War, and Phaedre (1677),
showing a mother crossing the bounds of love with her son. John
Edmunds' translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio
Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and
was subsequently praised by Harold Pinter. This is the first time
it has been published. Often hailed as the father of French
tragedy, PIERRE CORNEILLE made his name with the tragicomedy Le Cid
in 1637. His best-known works include the tragedies Horace (1640)
and Cinna (1641). MOLIERE founded the 'Illustre Theatre' troupe and
wrote numerous comedies, including Tartuffe (1664), which was
banned, Le Misanthrope (1666) and L'Avare (1668). JEAN RACINE
became known as one of the period's leading playwrights, with such
tragedies as Andromaque (1667), Britannicus (1669) and Phedre
(1677). After a varied career as an actor, teacher, and BBC TV
national newsreader, JOHN EDMUNDS became the founder-director of
Aberystwyth university's department of Theatre, Film and Television
Studies. JOSEPH HARRIS is Senior Lecturer at Royal Holloway,
University of London and author of Hidden Agendas: Cross-Dressing
in Seventeenth-Century France (2005).
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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Phedre (Paperback)
Jean Racine; Translated by Ted Hughes
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A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.
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 Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.
In this "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his protagonists. The translation was performed to acclaim in London in 1998, and the London production, starring Diana Rigg, was staged in 1999 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"We are still catching up with Ted Hughes's gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid," one English critic observed after the London premiere. "Little needs to happen on stage when there's a swirling action-packed disaster movie-riddled with sex and violence-in Hughes's free verse."
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Phaedra (Paperback, Main)
Jean Racine; Translated by Frank McGuinness
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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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