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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Racine, Jean, Author.

Contributor:

Lockert, Lacy, 1888-1974, translator, writer of foreword.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Undetermined

Subjects (All):

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699.

Racine, Jean.

Racine, Jean, 1639-1699--Translations into English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (382 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1958.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

BÉRÉNICE (BERENICE)

BAJAZET

MITHRIDATE (MITHRIDATES)

IPHIGÉNIE (IPHIGENIA)

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 18, 2016).

ISBN:

9780691652801

0691652805

9781400876075

1400876079

OCLC:

966841626