Silent witness : Racine's non-verbal annotations of Euripides / Susanna Phillippo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillippo, Susanna.

Contributor:

University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre.

Series:

Research monographs in French studies ; 14.

Research monographs in French studies ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Euripides--Influence.

Euripides.

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Criticism and interpretation.

Racine, Jean.

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Legenda, 2003.

Summary:

In her study of Racine's annotations of Euripides' tragedies, Phillippo examines the ways in which the creative process linking these two writers may have worked. She concentrates on the largely unexplored and hitherto mostly unpublished evidence supplied by 'non-verbal' aspects of the annotations: the marking of lines and passages by underlining, brackets, etc. Such markings cover a greater proportion of Euripides' plays than Racine's somewhat limited 'verbal' comments, and though more enigmatic than the verbal notes, they suggest how Racine probably understood the Greek 'originals', and the qualities of the Greek dramatist to which he appears to have responded most readily.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1900755610

OCLC:

47940260