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Paperback Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus Book

ISBN: 0226150771

ISBN13: 9780226150772

Three Plays of Racine: Phaedra, Andromache, and Britannicus

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"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine. . . . Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a homage to Racine's strength of construction . . . and to the expressive power of his themes, on which Mr. Dillon's prefaces have eloquent and sensible things to say."-Hugh Kenner, National Review

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Good play, great translation

Racine's "Phaedra" is based on Euripedes' "Hippolytus", and it is a very respectable retelling of the story. Racine writes especially well in the imagery of light and darkness struggling in Phaedra's soul, which he puts in her first and final lines.The translation by George Dillon is excellent.
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