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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: The Fratricides

Racine, Jean
Argent, Geoffrey Alan
Argent, Geoffrey Alan

Paperback

Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesPlays

ISBN10: 0271037318
ISBN13: 9780271037318
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Jan 4 2011
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays--a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine's death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed heroic couplets. While Argent's translation is faithful to Racine's text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racine's rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic pentameters, a verse form particularly well suited to the highly charged urgency of Racine's drama and the coiled strength of his verse.

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