Author: Jean Racine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392096
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. 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 Molière'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. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. 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).
Four French Plays
Author: Jean Racine
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392096
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. 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 Molière'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. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. 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).
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141392096
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The 'greatest hits' of French classical theatre, in vivid and acclaimed new Penguin translations by John Edmunds and with editorial apparatus by Joseph Harris. 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 Molière'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. This translation of Phaedra was originally broadcast on Radio Three with a cast including Prunella Scales and Timothy West, and was praised by playwright Harold Pinter. This is the first time it has been published. The edition also includes an introduction by Joseph Harris, genealogical tables, pronunciation guides, critiques and prefaces, as well as a chronology and suggested further reading. 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).
Four French Plays of the Twentieth Century
Author: Elliott Mansfield Grant
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Four French Plays
Five Classic French Plays
Author: Wallace Fowlie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048629790X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Treasury of theatrical masterpieces includes Corneille's "The Cid," Racine's "Phaedra, "Moliere s "The Intellectual Ladies," Marivaux's "The Game of Love and Chance," and Beaumarchais' "The Barber of Seville." Translations, introductions by noted scholar Wallace Fowlie."
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048629790X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Treasury of theatrical masterpieces includes Corneille's "The Cid," Racine's "Phaedra, "Moliere s "The Intellectual Ladies," Marivaux's "The Game of Love and Chance," and Beaumarchais' "The Barber of Seville." Translations, introductions by noted scholar Wallace Fowlie."
Four French Plays ...
Author: N. W. H. Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French language
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Four French plays
Four French Plays
Four French Plays
Author: Raphael Felix
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera, French
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera, French
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Four French Plays of the Twentieth Century
Author: Elliott Mansfield Grant
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : French drama
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description