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Racine, Jean --- Racine, Jean, --- Tragedy --- Criticism and interpretation --- 840 RACINE, JEAN --- Désherbage --- Deselectie --- Tragedy. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Drama --- La-hsin, --- Laxin, --- Rassin, --- Racine, Jean Baptiste, --- Racine, --- Rasin, Zhan, --- Rasin, Chang, --- Rasin, --- Rasin, Z'an, --- Rashīnu, Jan, --- ראסין, ז׳אן --- רסין, ז׳ן --- 拉辛, --- ラシーヌジャン, --- Racine, Jean-Baptiste --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699 - Criticism and interpretation --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699

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Racine, Jean --- Tragedy --- Racine, Jean, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Drama --- -Criticism and interpretation --- La-hsin, --- Laxin, --- Rassin, --- Racine, Jean Baptiste, --- Racine, --- Rasin, Zhan, --- Rasin, Chang, --- Rasin, --- Rasin, Z'an, --- Rashīnu, Jan, --- ראסין, ז׳אן --- רסין, ז׳ן --- 拉辛, --- ラシーヌジャン, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Racine, Jean-Baptiste --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699 - Criticism and interpretation --- Racine, Jean, - 1639-1699

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God in literature --- Dieu dans la littérature --- Pascal, Blaise, --- Racine, Jean, --- 82 --- CDL --- Racine, Jean-Baptiste --- Racine, Jean --- La-hsin, --- Laxin, --- Rassin, --- Racine, Jean Baptiste, --- Racine, --- Rasin, Zhan, --- Rasin, Chang, --- Rasin, --- Rasin, Z'an, --- Rashīnu, Jan, --- ראסין, ז׳אן --- רסין, ז׳ן --- 拉辛, --- ラシーヌジャン, --- Tragic, The. --- Tragique (philosophie) --- Critique et interprétation.

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"In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory." "Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays."--Jacket.

Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- French Literature --- Corneille, Pierre, --- Racine, Jean, --- Racine, Jean-Baptiste --- Racine, Jean --- Corneille, Pierre --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rome --- In literature. --- La-hsin, --- Laxin, --- Rassin, --- Racine, Jean Baptiste, --- Racine, --- Rasin, Zhan, --- Rasin, Chang, --- Rasin, --- Rasin, Z'an, --- Rashīnu, Jan, --- ראסין, ז׳אן --- רסין, ז׳ן --- 拉辛, --- ラシーヌジャン,

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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 in a deadly struggle for dominion: she, fiercely determined to maintain her throne and exterminate the detested race of David; he, no less fiercely determined to overthrow this heathen queen and enthrone the orphan Joash, the scion of the house of David, whom Athaliah believes she slew as an infant ten years earlier. This boy represents the sole hope for the survival of the royal race from which is to spring the Christ. But in this play, even God is more about hate and retribution than about love and mercy.This is the fourth 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 that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the “heroic” couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet’s compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine’s is in French. Complementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive Notes and Commentary, which offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights.

Racine, Jean, --- Racine, Jean-Baptiste --- Racine, Jean --- Criticism and interpretation. --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General. --- La-hsin, --- Laxin, --- Rassin, --- Racine, Jean Baptiste, --- Racine, --- Rasin, Zhan, --- Rasin, Chang, --- Rasin, --- Rasin, Z'an, --- Rashīnu, Jan, --- ראסין, ז׳אן --- רסין, ז׳ן --- 拉辛, --- ラシーヌジャン,