EAN: 9783039109258

JEAN RACINE - JOHN SAYER KARTONIERT (TB)

This first biography of Racine in over half a century for an English-language readership also
traces the impact of Racine over three centuries in England as well as France. The plays and
their reception are reviewed  using contextual approaches as part of each phase of Racine's
life-story  with excerpts and quotations translated. Racine's upbringing and work as poet and
historiographer are related to the France of Louis XIV  to audiences and to advancement for
this 'man from nowhere'  with parallels in Britain and elsewhere. Changing attitudes to Racine
are traced across the centuries  across literary movements and on stage  including recent
productions. The book provides insights in the specialist field of Racine studies and
seventeenth-century French literature and theatre  in comparative literary studies 
particularly between France and Restoration England  and to the interaction of Racine and
European cultural movements to the present day.

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