Phèdre (Dover Thrift Editions) Summary and Reviews

Phèdre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Jean Racine

Phèdre (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Author: Jean Racine
Translator: Wallace Fowlie
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); French (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-11-13
ISBN: 0486419274
Number of pages: 64
Publisher: Dover Publications

Book Reviews of Phèdre (Dover Thrift Editions)

Book Review: Coming to a Theater Near You?
Summary: 3 Stars

The "Stratford Shakespeare Festival" of Ontario, Canada, has mounted a production of Racine's great tragedy "Phèdre" in an English translation by Timberlake Wertenbaker. This production is now on tour, and being hosted in San Francisco by the American Conservatory Theater (ACT). Phedre is as revered in France as Hamlet or King Lear in England, and for much the same reasons, for its sublimity of language, in the poet's Alexandrine hexameter couplets. That poetic excitement, however, is the largest obstacle to translation, and successful stagings of Phèdre in America have been few.

The translation in this Dover Thrift edition is NOT the Stratford script by Wertenbaker. It's an unglamorous, stumbling prosaic translation from the 1960s. The only possible reason for looking at this 'trot' edition would be to familiarize yourself with the narrative in preparation for seeing the stage production when it comes to a theater near you. As always with Dover Thrift Editions, the price is right.

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