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Bernard D. N. Grebanier,Jean Racine

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Barrons Educational Series Inc; Translated By D. N. Grebanier edition (June 1, 1958)

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Phaedra (Racine) An English Acting Version Paperback by Bernard D. N. Grebanier (Translator) Paperback: 92 pages Publisher: Barron's Educational Series, Inc.

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Jean Racine, Bernard D. ISBN 10: 0812001435 ISBN 13: 9780812001433. Book Description Condition: Good. Publisher: Barrons Educational Series Inc Pub Date: 6/1/1958 Binding: Paperback Pages: 92 Translated By D. Seller Inventory 6094278. More information about this seller Contact this seller.

Bernard Grebanier (March 8, 1903 – March 1977) was an American drama historian, critic, writer and poet, most notable for his studies of the works of William Shakespeare. Grebanier was a professor of English at Brooklyn College from 1926 until 1964. In 1941 he was quoted in evidence presented to the Supreme Court of the United States denouncing a former associate professor as a Communist during the professor's appeal against dismissal from his position.

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Jean Racine was born on October 22nd,1639 in France. He was a play writer who mostly wrote tragedies and before he died he wrote one comedy. The success of Pradon’s work made Racine quite his playwriting. His contemporaries were Moliere and Corneille. He wrote Phaedra in 1677. He is considered to be one of the most famous French play writers in the time of Classicism.

Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him. In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human-scale characters and actions. Introduction by Richard Wilbur. 12,39 €. Price: 10,16 €.

Phaedra - Jean Racine. Introduction to phaedra. Jean Baptiste Racine, the younger contemporary of Corneille, and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, was born at Ferté-Milon, December 21, 1639

Phaedra - Jean Racine. Jean Baptiste Racine, the younger contemporary of Corneille, and his rival for supremacy in French classical tragedy, was born at Ferté-Milon, December 21, 1639. He was educated at the College of Beauvais, at the great Jansenist school at Port Royal, and at the College d'Harcourt. He attracted notice by an ode written for the marriage of Louis XIV in 1660, and made his first really great dramatic success with his Andromaque. His tragic masterpieces include Britannicus, Bérénice, Bajazet, Mithridate, Iphigénie, and Phèdre, all written between 1669 and 1677.

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Modred

Racine pursues the ability to sin in the heart and not in the flesh. He wraps it all in the tortuous history of the Royal House of Thebes. Displays a joy to anyone who loves both of theology and the mythology of ancient Greece. The play transforms this theology into premodern terms. Post-reformation conscience and the basis for religious wars are now hidden within the now classic Theseus myth.

Cogelv

Exactly what I needed for class and didn't break the bank. Not a book I would normally buy but shipping was great and book in good condition.

Cyregaehus

Such a good book with great translation that makes it so easy to read. Glad this was assigned for my literature class

Sharpbrew

I like that it's rhymed. The blank or free verse translations of the poems that are rhymed in the original may be closer to the content, but, as Housman said:"Poetry is not the thing said but a way of saying it."

Yggdi

all good

Ucantia

This product was clearly print-on-demand, but there was no attention to detail involved in the process. The margins make it so that a word might bleed over into the next line, which looks silly, and sometimes names will be on one page and lines on the next.
I wish I had bought another edition, because this one is honestly an embarrassment to publishing.

Eayaroler

This is arguably Racine's best known play. It is based on an earlier version of the play by Euripides. It is written at a relatively late period in Racine's career when he was moving back toward Jansensim and a fully religious life. The play is considered the most perfect French example of a tragedy written according to the classic rules. The story is one of illicit passion and its price. One strange idea of Racine was that the 'gods' forced people to sin, and then punished them for this. This cruelty of the gods somehow suits the whole tenor of Racine's work which has a certain fierce kind of cruelty in it. Phaedra the second wife of the king Theseus falls passionately in love with Theseus' son Hippolytus. Hippolytus who supposedly hates woman is in fact secretly in love with Arcis. Upon receiving a message that Theseus has died Phaedra contain contain her passion and confesses her love to a horrified Hippolytus. Then it is revealed that the message of Theseus dead like Mark Twain's has been premature. Theseus returns and urged on by her wicked servant Oenone Phaedra indicates that Hippolytus has attempted to seduce her. Outraged Theseus orders that his son be executed. Phaedra upon learning this thinks to confess, but then learns that Hippolytus is not indifferent women as he has pretended to her but in fact loves Arcis. In a fit of jealousy she allows Theseus to carry out the execution. Upon learning of Hippolytus death, she commits suicide.

The virtous Phaedra who worked so hard to overcome her passion for Hippolytus has been defeated by that passion. The passion, the sinful nature of the human heart has ruthlessly brought to the tragic death of the innocence. This is the harsh and bleak world of Racine's tragedy, the cruel world in which sinner and innocent alike go to their doom.

This year I am using Jean Racine's "Phaedra" as the one non-classical text in my Classical Greek and Roman Mythology Class (yes, I know, "Classical" makes "Greek and Roman" redundant, but it was not my title). In Greek mythology, Phaedra was the half-sister of the Minotaur who was married to Theseus after the hero abandoned her sister Ariadne (albeit, according to some versions of what happened in Crete). Phaedra fell in love with her step-son Hippolytus, who refused her advances. Humiliated, she falsely accused him of having raped her.
My students read "Phaedra" after Euripides's "Hippolytus" as part of an analogy criticism assignment, in which they compare/contrast the two versions, which are decidedly different, to say the least. In the "original" Greek version Hippolytus is a follower of Artemis, and the jealous Aphrodite causes his stepmother to fall in love with him. Phaedra accuses Hippolytus of rape and then hangs herself; Theseus banished his son who is killed before Artemis arrives to tell the truth. In Racine's version Hippolytus is a famous hater of women who falls in love with Aricia, a princess of the blood line of Athens. When false word comes that Theseus is dead, Phaedra moves to put her own son on the throne. In the end the same characters end up dead, but the motivations and other key elements are different.
While I personally would not go so far as to try and argue how Racine's neo-classical version represents the France of 1677, I have found that comparing and contrasting the two versions compels students to think about the choices each dramatist has made. Both the similarities and the differences between "Hippolytus" and "Phaedra" are significant enough to facilitate this effort. Note: Other dramatic versions of this myth include Seneca's play "Phaedra," "Fedra" by Gabriele D'Annunzio, "Thesee" by Andrea Gide, and "The Cretan Woman" by Robinson Jeffers.

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