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Andromaque - Suivie de Andromaque d'Euripide
Racine songe sans nul doute à l'actrice Du Parc, sa maîtresse, quand il écrit Andromaque, où il transpose Les tourments qu'elle lui fait subir... Captive troyenne enlevée par Pyrrhus avec son fils Astyanax, Andromaque, veuve d'Hector, doit choisir : l'épouser ou voir périr son enfant, comme les Grecs l'exigent. Mais peut-elle céder à ce bourreau séduisant qui a massacré sa famille et incendié sa ville ? Il y a un fleuve de sang entre eux.
La haine, la douleur et La fidélité à Hector doivent l'emporter. Dans le même temps, dans L'ombre, Hermione, ainsi qu'Oreste, malheureux éconduits par une chaîne amoureuse, conspirent...
La haine, la douleur et La fidélité à Hector doivent l'emporter. Dans le même temps, dans L'ombre, Hermione, ainsi qu'Oreste, malheureux éconduits par une chaîne amoureuse, conspirent...
155 pages, Pocket Book
Published February 21, 2019
About the author
Jean Racine
2,068 books373 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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December 10, 2023
quelques citations stylées :
« L’amour n’est pas un feu qu’on renferme en une âme ;
Tout nous trahit, la voix, le silence, les yeux ;
Et les feux mal couverts n’en éclatent que mieux. »
« Je lui donne son fils, mon âme, mon empire :
Et je ne puis gagner dans son perfide cœur
D’autre rang que celui de son persécuteur ? »
« Excuse un malheureux qui perd tout ce qu’il aime,
Que tout le monde hait, et qui se hait lui-même. »
« L’amour n’est pas un feu qu’on renferme en une âme ;
Tout nous trahit, la voix, le silence, les yeux ;
Et les feux mal couverts n’en éclatent que mieux. »
« Je lui donne son fils, mon âme, mon empire :
Et je ne puis gagner dans son perfide cœur
D’autre rang que celui de son persécuteur ? »
« Excuse un malheureux qui perd tout ce qu’il aime,
Que tout le monde hait, et qui se hait lui-même. »
January 11, 2025
Hermione grosse timmmmpe, c’est elle qu’il fallait faire canner.
Oreste chouchou, tout va s’arranger, courage garçon
Oreste chouchou, tout va s’arranger, courage garçon
June 29, 2026
Les vers de Racine sont superbes mais je trouve la pièce originale d'Euripide bien plus logique et fidèle à l'esprit grec que l'interprétation un peu libre de Racine.
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