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Jean Racine (French playwright)
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Racine
Racine , industrial city (1990 pop. 84,298), seat of Racine co., SE Wis., on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of the Root River; inc. 1848. It is a port of entry, and its manufactures include farm machinery, automobile parts, stitching machines, tools, corrugated containers, waxes and polishes, and... Read more |
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Jean Racine
Jean Racine , 1639-99, French dramatist. Racine is the prime exemplar of French classicism . The nobility of his Alexandrine verse, the simplicity of his diction, the psychological realism of his characters, and the skill of his dramatic construction contribute to the continued popularity of his... Read more |
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti , 1888-1970, Italian poet, critic, and translator, b. Alexandria, Egypt. Ungaretti spent his youth in North Africa, where he was greatly influenced by nomadic culture. In Paris, where he studied, he formed friendships with members of the literary and artistic avant-garde. His... Read more |
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Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (Robert Traill Spence Lowell 4th), 1917-77, American poet and translator, widely considered the preeminent poet of the mid-20th cent., b. Boston, grad. Kenyon College (B.A., 1940). A grandnephew of James Russell Lowell , in 1940 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married the... Read more |
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Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes (Edward James Hughes), 1930-98, English poet, b. Mytholmyroyd, Yorkshire. Hughes's best poetry focuses on the unsentimental within nature. His poems are marked by controlled diction and style, which create a sense of order and meaning in violent or passionate natural events, often in the... Read more |
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Andromache
Andromache , in Greek mythology, Trojan princess, wife of Hector and mother of Astyanax. After the Trojan War she was carried away by Neoptolemus , whose father, Achilles, had slain her husband. She later married Hector's brother Helenus and they jointly ruled Epirus. She is a noble figure in the ... Read more |
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Athaliah
Athaliah . 1 The only queen to occupy the throne of Judah, daughter of Ahab of Israel, wife of Jehoram 2 of Judah, and mother of Ahaziah 2 of Judah, whom she succeeded. She had the males of the royal family murdered, but her stepdaughter Jehosheba hid away a baby son of Ahaziah. Some... Read more |
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Hippolytus
Hippolytus in Greek mythology, son of Theseus and Antiope (or Hippolyte). After the death of Antiope, Theseus married Phaedra, daughter of Minos. Because Hippolytus worshiped only Artemis, the jealous Aphrodite punished him by causing his stepmother to fall in love with him. When he rejected her... Read more |
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Theatre: Some like it Scots Edwin Morgan, Glasgow's official poet laureate,...
...playwright, translator and critic whose new Scots translation of Racine's Phaedra is about to open at Edinburgh's Royal Lyceum...Morgan - 80 this year - has made no attempt to contemporise Racine's implacably death- driven tale of tainted love and divine... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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Translating past into present For 40 years, Richard Wilbur's Moliere has...
...Wilbur fell in love with Moliere. "Also, I thought that by translating a lyric play I could uncover more voices of my own. But I...Wilbur, who is also the premier English translator of Racine, even took a stab at the musical theater in 1956, when he... |
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Mario Luzi's il fiore del dolore: from seed to flower, poetic word to...
...especially with regard to Luzi's resultant experience of translating Racine's Andromaque, which will influence his poetics greatly...Nel magma and during which he translated, not only Racine, but also Shakespeare's Richard II. But we speak... |
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The Word Child.(new production of 'Tartuffe')
...like Richard Howard is a real translator and can do general translations. I simply have this specialty of translating a couple of Racine plays in addition to the Molieres I've done, which I think amount to eight plays by now. It's tremendous... |
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Le Cid and The Liar
...translations of Moliere and Racine epitomize the possibilities...theater into modern English. Translating Moliere presents the lesser...exquisite forays into the lyrical. Racine, by contrast, poses almost...style to bridge a gap between Racine and, perhaps, ... |
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Bonnefoy and Shakespeare
...twenty (his title announces Racine "and"-not "or"-Shakespeare...and estranged relationship to Racine could similarly be charted...Shakespeare and-or?-Racine: no dichotomy better reveals...the problems involved with translating them.1 Shakespeare and the... |
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Star wars in the human heart
WHILE Jean Racine, writing his scrupulous...held Anglophone view of Racine's tragedies as highly...intimidated" by the task of translating Phaedra. Aiming to achieve...raciness and vividness". Racine's six foot, Alexandrine... |
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Channel Crossings: French and English Poetry in Dialogue 1550-2000.(Book Review)
...damagingly subjective. In 'Translating and Punctuating Hamlet...Its counterpart, 'Translating and Dramatizing Phedre...embodying his idea that Racine's characters have...accent indicated by Racine's punctuation...In 'Describing and ... |
 "The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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ORDER OF NUNS MARKS 140TH ANNIVERSARY.(LOCAL/WISCONSIN)
CALEDONIA -- The Racine Dominican order of Roman...established the Dominicans in Racine County. The order now...presentation on the Dominican's Racine history, including historic...Benedicta. She has spent hours translating documents related to Benedicta... |
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France goes on the cultural offensive
...and classic stage plays by Molire and Racine have become a mainstay of British culture...over entire casts of productions and translating French texts into English is estimated...be translated into English, except a Racine play at the Barbican, with subtitles... |
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