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Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus
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Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus Paperback - 1961

by Jean Baptiste Racine


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"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 which Mr. Dillon's prefaces have eloquent and sensible things to say."-Hugh Kenner, National Review

"His literal and flexible blank verse actually forms the nearest thing in English to the longer-measured rhymed couplets of Racine; even an ordinary reading aloud of so faithful a rendering provides something of the experience that Proust described."-Elliott Coleman, Poetry "A superb introduction . . . flawless translations, infused with poetic fire and charm."-Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

First line

This play, the third of Racine's tragedies, was first given before the court at Versailles, in the Queen's apartments, November 17, 1667; it opened the next day in Paris, in the venerable Bourgogne palace, where the company of factors had their theater.

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  • Title Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus
  • Author Jean Baptiste Racine
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 212
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 1961-09-15
  • ISBN 9780226150772 / 0226150771
  • Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.01 x 5.31 x 0.5 in (20.35 x 13.49 x 1.27 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 61015938
  • Dewey Decimal Code 842.4

About the author

George Dillon (1906-1968) was the editor of Poetry and author of two collections of poems, Boy in the Wind and The Flowering Stone. In 1931 he won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Dillon was co-translator, with Edna St. Vincent Millay, of Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil.
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