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Theatre Complet de J. Racine Preced d'une Noticed par M. Auger TRANSLATION: Complete Works of J. Racine Preceded by a Notice by M. Auger
Racine, J. · Paris
- Author
- Racine, J.
- Date
- 1882
- Place
- Paris
- Publisher
- Firmin-Didot et Cie.
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 121mo. (4.5" x 7") Full polished navy calf with double gilt rule frame to each cover. Centered gilt school crest and "Girls Public Day School Company—Limited Hackney & Clapton High School" to front cover. Spine with raised bands, gilt title on red leather label to second compartment, gilt lacy filigree frames and floral devices to all others. Bright gilt decoration to all leather edges. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Spine dull with only minor loss of gilt. No formal certificate, but a “Prize for Languages Midsummer 1886” is hand written on 2nd blank endpaper.
- Category
- Literature & Poetry
- Record
- S.I.6953
Theatre Complet de J. Racine Preced d'une Noticed par M. Auger TRANSLATION: Complete Works of J. Racine Preceded by a Notice by M. Auger
Author: Racine, J. (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699)
121mo. (4.5" x 7") 1882. Racine, J. Paris. Firmin-Didot et Cie. Full polished navy calf with double gilt rule frame to each cover. Centered gilt school crest and "Girls Public Day School Company—Limited Hackney & Clapton High School" to front cover. Spine with raised bands, gilt title on red leather label to second compartment, gilt lacy filigree frames and floral devices to all others. Bright gilt decoration to all leather edges. Marbled endpapers, all edges marbled. Spine dull with only minor loss of gilt. No formal certificate, but a “Prize for Languages Midsummer 1886” is hand written on 2nd blank endpaper.
From Wiki: Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage.
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