Ph?dre: ?dition bilingue - Paperback
by Jean Racine
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jean Racine, Margaret Rawlings (Translator), Margaret Rawlings (Introduction by)Series:Penguin ClassicsAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1992-03-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN-10:140445919UPC:9780140445916Book Category:Drama, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, European, Translating & InterpretingBook Topic:FrenchSize:7.74 x 5.09 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCBD2GF579
Ph?dre: ?dition bilingue
Racine's play Ph dre--which draws on Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus--is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains how this particular translation--made specifically from the actor's point-of-view--evolved from the 1957 Campbell Allen production. Containing both the French and English texts on facing pages, as well as Racine's own...
Series: Penguin Classics
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140445916ISBN-10:140445919UPC:9780140445916Book Category:Drama, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Ancient & Classical, European, Translating & InterpretingBook Topic:FrenchSize:7.74 x 5.09 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.3307Product ID:SCBD2GF579
Jean Racine was born in 1639 at La Ferté Milon, sixty miles east of Paris. Orphaned at an early age, he was educated at the Little Schools of Port Royal and the pro-Jansenist College of Beauvais. He soon reacted against his austere mentors and by 1660 he had begun to write for the theater and had been introduced to the court of Louis XIV. In 1677, when he had ten plays to his credit and was high...
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