Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> European - General

This is the third volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays--only the third time such a project has been undertaken. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has rendered these plays in the verse form that Racine might well have used had he been English: namely, the "heroic" couplet. Argent has exploited the couplet's compressed power and flexibility to produce a work of English literature, a verse drama as gripping in English as Racine's is in French.

Complementing the translation are the illuminating Discussion, intended as much to...

This is the first volume of a planned translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays--a project undertaken only three times in the three hundred years since Racine's death. For this new translation, Geoffrey Alan Argent has taken a fresh approach: he has rendered these plays in rhymed "heroic" couplets. While Argent's translation is faithful to Racine's text and tone, his overriding intent has been to translate a work of French literature into a work of English literature, substituting for Racine's rhymed alexandrines (hexameters) the English mode of rhymed iambic...

Sacrificed to powers larger than himself, Woyzeck is one of drama's first anti-heroes. He serves a German captain and makes money by allowing a doctor to experiment on him, but his deeper morality leads him to a tragic end.

Die vorliegende Studie widmet sich einer doppelten Zielsetzung: Zum einen erlautert sie Walter Benjamins schwierigsten theoretischen Text, die Erkenntniskritische Vorrede zum Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels, ineinem ausfuhrlichen analytischen Kommentar, der erstmals die historischen und systematischen Begriffsverknupfungen minutios nachzeichnet und offenlegt. Zum anderen kontextualisiert sie Benjamins Begriff der 'Darstellung', der in der Vorrede das konzeptionelle Zentrum seines Denkens bildet, im Rahmen der doppelten, asthetischen wie philosophischen...