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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

Volume 3: Iphigenia

By: Jean Baptiste Racine,Geoffrey Alan Argent

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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

Volume 3: Iphigenia

By: Jean Baptiste Racine,Geoffrey Alan Argent

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 provoke discussion as to provide it, and the extensive Notes and Commentary, which offer their own fresh and thought-provoking insights. In Iphigenia, his ninth play, Racine returns to Greek myth for the first time since Andromache. To Euripides&’s version of the tale he adds a love interest between Iphigenia and Achilles. And dissatisfied with the earlier resolutions of the Iphigenia myth (her actual death or her eleventh-hour rescue by a dea ex machina), Racine creates a wholly original character, Eriphyle, who, in addition to providing an intriguing new denouement, serves the dual dramatic purpose of triangulating the love interest and galvanizing the wholesome &“family values&” of this play by a jolt of supercharged passion.

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Penn State Press

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0271048603

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9780271048604

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Athaliah

By: Jean Racine,Geoffrey Alan Argent

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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Athaliah

By: Jean Racine,Geoffrey Alan Argent

An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of The Fratricides, a play by seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine"--Provided by publisher.

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156

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Penn State Press

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0271052481

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9780271052489

Multifunctional Agriculture

A Transition Theory Perspective

By: Geoffrey Alan Wilson

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Multifunctional Agriculture

A Transition Theory Perspective

By: Geoffrey Alan Wilson

In a time of great agricultural and rural change, the notion of 'multifunctionality' has remained under-theorized and poorly linked to wider debates in the social sciences. This book analyses the extent to which the proposed transition towards post-productivist agriculture holds up to scientific scrutiny, and proposes a modified productivist/non-productivist model that better encapsulates the complexity of agricultural and rural change. By combining existing notions and concepts, this book (re)conceptualizes agricultural change, creating a new transition theory, and a new way of looking at the future of agriculture.

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CABI

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1845932560

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9781845932565

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The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Athaliah

The Complete Plays of Jean Racine: Athaliah

Multifunctional Agriculture

Multifunctional Agriculture

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