Andromache / Britannicus / Berenice – Buch gebraucht kaufen

0140441956

(ISBN-13: 9780140441956)

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19,6 x 12,6 cm

288

208 g

Taschenbuch

Englisch

Translated with an introduction by John Cairncross.

The three works in this volume established Racine as a playwright who enjoyed high favour both with the public and at the court of Louis XIV and presented a growing challenge to the older writer Corneille.

Radical, intense, strikingly simple yet subtle, each of the plays shows how completely Racine threw over the theatrical conventions of the baroque period by demonstrating that, however heroic a man's intentions, he cannot be spared the cruelties of life by the intervention of Providence or by artificial coups de theatre.

John Cairncross seeks to convey the taut and concise rhythm of Racine's French by rendering his twelve-syllable Alexandrines into blank verse of ten syllables. The result is a powerful translation, throughout which the voice of the playwright can be clearly heard.

23.12.2024

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