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The Andromache / The Britannicus
Port-Royal gerou um primeiro Racine, Paris, na época do colégio Harcourt, embalou um segundo Racine (poeta mundano e feroz). Em Uzès, com a ajuda da natureza, nasceu um terceiro e definitivo Racine. O verdadeiro poeta se definiu, quando retorna à capital, em 1633, ele está maduro para escrever 'Os irmãos inimigos'. Nesse ano, trava conhecimento com Boileau, 'o melhor amigo e o melhor homem que teve no mundo'. E assim surge o grande escritor, o grande artesão do verso que levará o drama francês e o próprio classicismo a alturas insuspeitadas. Em 1667 temos Andrômaca e em 1669 Britânico, peças que representam dentro da topografia da obra raciniana um mergulho infernal e genial, do qual ele não voltará à tona, senão dez anos mais tarde, com Fedra. São essas as duas obras que apresentamos neste volume de traduções integrais de Jenny Klabin Segall, a qual se dedicou à divulgação das obras-primas do teatro clássico universal, em traduções em verso de cujo valor fazem fé unânimes vozes de imprensa sobre obras anteriormente editadas.
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First published January 1, 1669
About the author
Jean Racine
2,062 books370 followersClassical Greek and Roman themes base noted tragedies, such as
Britannicus
(1669) and
Phèdre
(1677), of French playwright Jean Baptiste Racine.
Adherents of movement of Cornelis Jansen included Jean Baptiste Racine.
This dramatist ranks alongside Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) and Pierre Corneille of the "big three" of 17th century and of the most important literary figures in the western tradition. Psychological insight, the prevailing passion of characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage mark dramaturgy of Racine. Although primarily a tragedian, Racine wrote one comedy.
Orphaned by the age of four years when his mother died in 1641 and his father died in 1643, he came into the care of his grandparents. At the death of his grandfather in 1649, his grandmother, Marie des Moulins, went to live in the convent of Port-Royal and took her grandson Jean-Baptiste. He received a classical education at the Petites écoles de Port-Royal, a religious institution that greatly influenced other contemporary figures, including Blaise Pascal.
The French bishops and the pope condemned Jansenism, a heretical theology, but its followers ran Port-Royal. Interactions of Racine with the Jansenists in his years at this academy great influenced the rest of his life. At Port-Royal, he excelled in his studies of the classics, and the themes of Greek and Roman mythology played large roles in his works.
Jean Racine died from cancer of the liver. He requested burial in Port-Royal, but after Louis XIV razed this site in 1710, people moved his body to the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris.
*source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ra...
Adherents of movement of Cornelis Jansen included Jean Baptiste Racine.
This dramatist ranks alongside Molière (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) and Pierre Corneille of the "big three" of 17th century and of the most important literary figures in the western tradition. Psychological insight, the prevailing passion of characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage mark dramaturgy of Racine. Although primarily a tragedian, Racine wrote one comedy.
Orphaned by the age of four years when his mother died in 1641 and his father died in 1643, he came into the care of his grandparents. At the death of his grandfather in 1649, his grandmother, Marie des Moulins, went to live in the convent of Port-Royal and took her grandson Jean-Baptiste. He received a classical education at the Petites écoles de Port-Royal, a religious institution that greatly influenced other contemporary figures, including Blaise Pascal.
The French bishops and the pope condemned Jansenism, a heretical theology, but its followers ran Port-Royal. Interactions of Racine with the Jansenists in his years at this academy great influenced the rest of his life. At Port-Royal, he excelled in his studies of the classics, and the themes of Greek and Roman mythology played large roles in his works.
Jean Racine died from cancer of the liver. He requested burial in Port-Royal, but after Louis XIV razed this site in 1710, people moved his body to the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris.
*source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ra...
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Que bela bisca essa Hermione, hein?! E o Orestes, então? Que belo pedaço de excremento! Em resumo, mais um novelão mexicano, daqueles bem açougueiros, com Fulana que ama Beltrano que ama Sicrana que não ama ninguém. Não é à toa que as novelas continuam fazendo tanto sucesso...
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