Racine's mid-career tragedies / / transalted into English rhyming verse with introductions by Lacy Lockert

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460619703321
• Autore: Racine Jean
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 1958; ©1958
• ISBN: 0-691-65280-5; 1-4008-7607-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Collana: Princeton Legacy Library
• Disciplina: 842.4
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- BÉRÉNICE (BERENICE) -- BAJAZET -- MITHRIDATE (MITHRIDATES) -- IPHIGÉNIE (IPHIGENIA)
• Sommario/riassunto: Translated into English rhyming verse, with introductions, by Lacy Lockert, the four plays included in this volume are Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridate, and Iphigenie. They are significant for their inherent excellence, and for what they reveal about the development of a great dramatist.Originally published in 1958.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.