Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods.
Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Racine's tragedies portray characters wrestling with ambition, treachery, religion, and love.
Phaedra and Iphigenia: Verse Translations of Racineś Dramas
The joining together of this "threefold cord" is the enemy's secret weapon--and it is gaining alarming momentum against believers. This is no time for fear; it is time for action.
... Hellas , now banished to the Euxine ' is to the point . Still more point would be got if we put á μvao . ¿ § ' EXX . after 220 and took it , as does Grégoire , as = ' summoned from Hellas for marriage ' . The end of Iph.'s journey from ...
... Michael Bertolini (Agamemnon) Ivanna Cullinan (Klytemnestra) Giselle Chatelain (Attendant) Laura Hartle (Iphigenia) Paul Murillo (Achilles) Eric Emil Oleson (Menelaus) Jenny Lee Mitchell (Chorus Leader) Sandy York (Chorus) Emily Clare ...
... Tro. 924 'this man judged the “yoked” trio' (Alexandros/Paris is named in ... 3028; V. Bers, EGT 1372. Phrygians: this name brings a tone of distaste for ... Tro. 992 'bright with gold'; cf. Cyc. 182–5). Paris'exoticism is a topos: Hall ...
Breaking the Threefold Demonic Cord: How to Discern and Defeat the Lies of Jezebel, Athaliah and Delilah
The joining together of this "threefold cord" is the enemy's secret weapon--and it is gaining alarming momentum against believers. This is no time for fear; it is time for action.
Plays: Aeschylus Prometheus bound. Sophocles Oedipus rex. Euripides Medea. Aristophanes The knights. Calderon, P. Life a dream. Molière The misanthrope. Racine, J. B. Phaedra. Goldsmith, O. She stoops to conquer
... antagonist , Predestined for my final overthrow . SAUSAGE - SELLER . - Yes ! And it points to me , my name and person ! CLEON . - Yet would I fain inquire and question you ; How far the signs and tokens of the prophecy Combine in your ...
Dramatic Masterpieces: Prometheus bound, by Aeschylus Oedipus rex, by Sophocles. Medea, by Euripides. The knights, by Aristophanes. Life a dream, by P. Calderon. The misanthrope, by J.B.P. Molière Phaedra, ;by J.B. Racine. She stoops to conquer, by O. Goldsmith
... antagonist , Predestined for my final overthrow . SAUSAGE - SELLER . - Yes ! And it points to me , my name and person ! CLEON . - Yet would I fain inquire and question you ; How far the signs and tokens of the prophecy Combine in your ...
... innocent. Submissive to my husband, I hid my grief, and of our fatal marriage Cherish'd the fruits. Vain caution! Cruel Fate! Brought hither by my spouse himself, I saw Again the enemy whom I had banish'd, And the old wound too quickly ...
... bleach from the blue bottle. The fumes will kill us all. Someday I'll tell you how I know that. Handwash your ... bomb but remembered Brother Timothy's warning about potential loss of human life. Still, my head turned several times to that ...
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The story is written loosely after Seneca's version of the Phaedra myth, in which a tragedy arises because the title character falls in love with her royal stepson.
... love for Aricia to Theramenes and Phaedra confesses her love for Hippolytus to Oenone. The role of the confidantes is essential. They make speech possible, they create an intimate space where the confession can be made. Oenone says “I ...
A brilliant translation of one of the most influential works of French theater, Phaedra is rendered into movingly expressive verse by the Pulitzer Prize–winning translator Richard Wilbur.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
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