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1	Phedre more books like this by Racine add to wishlist An adaptation by the Poet Laureate of Racine's play of the same name. Phedre burns with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. His father, Theseus, is made to believe that it is Hippolytus who is lusting after Phedre, and begs Neptune to kill his son, which he does before discovering the truth. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Phaedra, by Racine more books like this by Jean Baptiste Racine, Igor Tulipanov (Illustrator), Richard Wilbur (Translator) add to wishlist Phaedra is consumed with passion for Hippolytus, her stepson. Believing her husband dead, she confesses her love to him and is rebuffed. When her husband returns alive, Phaedra convinces him that it was Hippolytus who attempted to seduce her. In his interpretation, Racine replaced the stylized tragedy with human-scale characters and actions. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.59! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Iphigenia,Phaedra,Athaliah more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist 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. "Iphigenia" depicts a princess' absolute submission to her father's will, despite his determination to sacrifice her to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| SVS
4	Racine's Phedre more books like this by Ted Hughes (Translator), Jean Racine add to wishlist Late British Poet Laureate Hughes emphasized the brutality of the characters' passions in his translation of Racine's classic play, replacing the Alexandrines of the original with his characteristic clipped, intense free verse. The play pits a queen with a powerful lust for her stepson--who himself loves a prisoner--against courtesans who try to ... see all copies from $4.21! new only from $99.00!
5	Phædra more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist Edited and translated by Oreste F Pucciani, this edition of Phaedra for performance and study is well annotated and features an introduction that includes a plot summary and extensive discussion of how the historical, social, religious, and theatrical conventions of seventeenth-century France contribute to the play. Also included are a list of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Andromaque. more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah more books like this by Jean Racine, C H Sisson (Editor) add to wishlist Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra's doomed love for her stepson Hippolytus. Athaliah (1691), ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.44! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Phedre: Dual Language Edition more books like this by Jean Racine, Margaret Rawlings (Translator) add to wishlist The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful and haunting in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-1699), the dying queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus's love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be regarded as one of the great stories ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $6.50! \| SVS
9	Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Brittanicus more books like this by Jean Racine, George Dillon (Translator) add to wishlist "George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a homage to Racine's strength of construction . . . and to the expressive power of his themes, on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.82! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Esther more books like this by Racine add to wishlist The tragedy of Esther as reader for French students at intermediate level. Includes an introduction and vocabulary. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $12.13! \| first editions \| SVS
11	OEuvres complètes. more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist see all copies from $10.00! first editions
12 view cover	Britannicus: A New Version by Robert David MacDonald more books like this by Jean Racine, Robert D MacDonald (Translator) add to wishlist Racine's political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of a tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power, as a world slips into moral chaos. This new version opens October 1998 at the Albery Theatre, with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.88! \| SVS
13	Andromaque, Iphigenie, Britannicus more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist see all copies from $2.53! new only from $6.47!
14 view cover	The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 1: Iphigenia, Andromache, Britannicus by Jean Racine, Geoffrey Alan Argent (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.69! new only from $5.48!
15 view cover	Viramma: Life of an Untouchable more books like this by Viramma Racine, Jean-Luc Racine, Josiane Racine add to wishlist "I walked forward with my head lowered, my heart heavy and my tears readyu to fall. But I was all alone in feeling like this: around me it was a holiday, the streets were swept and strewn with coconut leaves, the sky was blue and cloudless ...As if I was in a trance, I felt hands putting the tali around my neck and tying three knots in the string. ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
16 view cover	Jean Racine: Four Greek Plays: Andromache-Iphigenia, Phaedra-Athaliah more books like this by Jean Racine, R C Knight (Translator) add to wishlist Racine's poetry is always thought to be untranslatable; so one of the world's great dramatists remains inaccessible to readers without French. This is the best translation into English; Professor Knight has used a regular English blank verse which conveys remarkably well both the formality and the passion of the original. the plays given here - ... see all copies from $11.95! new only from $29.49! \| SVS
17 view cover	Andromache : tragedy in five acts, 1667 more books like this by Jean Racine, Richard Wilbur add to wishlist A skillful translation of the classical French tragedy about the captivity of Hector's wife after her abduction by the son of Achilles. The rhymed couplets retain the simplicity of form and powerful language of the original. "[This translation] is a striking tour de force" (Hudson Review). Drawings by Igor Tulipanov. see all copies from $2.30! new only from $10.72! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Fedra more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! new only from $10.00!
19	Phaedra: Tragedy in Five Acts, 1677 more books like this by Jean Baptiste Racine add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
20	Andromache more books like this by Igor Tulipanov (Illustrator), Jean Racine, Richard Wilbur add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Britannicus more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist Racine's political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of a tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power, as a world slips into moral chaos. This new version opens October 1998 at the Albery Theatre, with Diana Rigg and Toby Stephens. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.11! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Three plays : Andromache, Phaedra, Athaliah more books like this by Jean Racine, Tim Chilcott add to wishlist Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-99) is the undisputed master of tragic pathos in French literature. He was a member of the group of dramatists, known as 'The Four' which also included La Fontaine, Boileau and Moliere. His tragic masterpieces, "Andromache" (1677, a tragedy after Euripides, and "Phaedra" (1677), a marvellous representation of human agony ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89!
23 view cover	Andromache, Britannicus, Berenice more books like this by Jean Racine add to wishlist The three works in this volume established Racine as a playwright who enjoyed high favour both with the public and at the court of Louis XIV and presented a growing challenge to the older writer Corneille. see all copies from $1.99!
24	Racine's Phaedre more books like this by Robert Lowell (Translator), Jean Racine add to wishlist see all copies from $3.95! first editions
25 view cover	Athalie more books like this by J Racine add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions

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