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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1 - The Fratricides by into rhymed couplets with critical notes and commentary by Geoffrey Alan Argent is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Complementing the translations are the illuminating Discussions and the extensive Notes and Commentaries Argent has furnished for each play. The Discussions are not offered as definitive interpretations of these plays, but are intended to stimulate readers to form their own views and to explore further the inexhaustibly rich world of Racine’s plays. Included in the Notes and Commentary section of this translation are passages that Racine deleted after the first edition and

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Author

into rhymed couplets with critical notes and commentary by Geoffrey Alan Argent

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press; Penn State University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271053585

Category

nonfiction