The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Volume 4: Athaliah, Racine Jean Baptiste

Автор: Baptiste Tracey
Название: The Jumbies
ISBN: 161620592X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616205928
Издательство: Little Brown
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Описание: Jumbies are just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest. Those shining yellow eyes that followed her to the edge of the trees, they couldn`t belong to a jumbie. Or could they?

Автор: Jean Racine; Translated by Ted Hughes
Название: Ph?dre
ISBN: 0374526168 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374526160
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.

The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.

In this tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his protagonists. The translation was performed to acclaim in London in 1998, and the London production, starring Diana Rigg, was staged in 1999 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

We are still catching up with Ted Hughes's gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid, one English critic observed after the London premiere. Little needs to happen on stage when there's a swirling action-packed disaster movie-riddled with sex and violence-in Hughes's free verse.