Jean Racine: Life and LegendPeter Lang, 2006 - 427 páginas This first biography of Racine in over half a century for an English-language readership also traces the impact of Racine over three centuries in England as well as France. The plays and their reception are reviewed, using contextual approaches as part of each phase of Racine's life-story, with excerpts and quotations translated. Racine's upbringing and work as poet and historiographer are related to the France of Louis XIV, to audiences and to advancement for this 'man from nowhere', with parallels in Britain and elsewhere. Changing attitudes to Racine are traced across the centuries, across literary movements and on stage, including recent productions. The book provides insights in the specialist field of Racine studies and seventeenth-century French literature and theatre, in comparative literary studies, particularly between France and Restoration England, and to the interaction of Racine and European cultural movements to the present day. |
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Note on References and Quotations | 7 |
Chapter Two Poets Players and Preachers 16631666 | 39 |
Chapter Three La Thébaïde ou les Frères Ennemis | 63 |
Chapter Four Alexandre le Grand | 79 |
Chapter Five Andromaque | 105 |
Chapter Six The Conflict with Corneille | 137 |
Chapter Seven The Poet at Court I Exploring the East | 181 |
Chapter Eight The Poet at Court II Crown and Cabal | 217 |
Chapter Nine Phèdre and the Break from the Theatre | 245 |
Chapter Ten CourtierHistoriographer 16771687 | 279 |
Chapter Eleven Esther and Athalie | 297 |
Chapter Twelve 16921699 the last years remembered | 331 |
Chapter Thirteen Changing Images over Three Centuries | 363 |
Notes | 391 |
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