The Chief Rivals of Corneille and Racine - Couverture rigide

Lockert, Lacy

 
9780826510471: The Chief Rivals of Corneille and Racine
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0826510477 ISBN 13 : 9780826510471
Editeur : Vanderbilt University Press, 1956

Synopsis

Here are blank verse translations of ten of the best tragedies by French dramatists contemporary with Corneille and Racine, and two by the most noted successors. No great dramatist can be properly understood and appreciated without some knowledge of the lesser playwrights surrounding him. The fact has long been realized as regards to Shakespeare; but the lesser figures of the great age of French drama--men comparable to such Elizabethans as Middleton and Fletcher and Massinger--have been generally neglected. This book makes a selection of their best works available to English readers. French students who do not have access to the frequently rare French texts of these plays will find it valuable.

No play by any of these dramatists, except Voltaire, has ever before been translated into English. The faithfulness and literary qualities of Dr. Lockert's translations are avouched by his two previous volumes in this field, The Chief Plays of Corneille and The Best Plays of Racine.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lacy Lockert (1888-1974) was an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College from 1916-1925. After he retired, he focused on scholarship and translations.

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Éditeur
Vanderbilt University Press
Date d'édition
1956
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0826510477
ISBN 13 
9780826510471
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
605
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