Theatre Complet de J. Racine.
by J Racine
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Green leather binding with red title plate, gilt banding, decoration and lettering on the spine. St John's College emblem on the front board. Marbled end papers and edges. (spine faded to brown)
The complete plays of the major seventeenth century French dramatist Jean Racine.
Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for the young.
Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage.
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB5235 /6B
- Title
- Theatre Complet de J. Racine.
- Author
- J Racine
- Format/Binding
- Leather binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Garnier Freres.
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- Circa 1910
- Size
- 13 x18 x4cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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