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

by Jean Racine

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271037318
• ISBN13: 9780271037318
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"