JEAN RACINE   (1639 - 1699)
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Jean Racine
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Jean Racine

CRAIG RAINE
1953
1st Produced:
1992
Company:
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1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1990
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine (Andromaque)
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GEOFFREY ALAN ARGENT
Andromache
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books, 2003
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JOHN CAIRNCROSS
Andromache
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Andromache, Britanicus and Berenice" published by Penguin Books, 1968
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DAVID DRYER
Andromache
1st Produced:
1985
Company:
Cheek By Jowl
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Translated
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine
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LUK PERCEVAL
Andromache
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Play
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Parts:
Male
4
Female
1
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis:
The five characters line up on a slab of granite, immobile, as in a carved frieze thus depicting the intractable nature of Greek tragedy. They are frozen by pain and by old resentments.
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PETER PERCEVAL
Andromache
1st Produced:
2004
Company:
Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz, Berlin
1st Published:
-
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Genre:
Play
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4
Female
1
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Notes:
Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis:
The five characters line up on a slab of granite, immobile, as in a carved frieze thus depicting the intractable nature of Greek tragedy. They are frozen by pain and by old resentments.
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RICHARD WILBUR
Andromache
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
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DOUGLAS DUNN
Andromaque
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1990
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PETER FRANCE
Andromaque
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1989
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4
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4
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JOHN CAIRNCROSS
Athaliah
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books , 1975
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JOHN MURRELL
Bajazet
1st Produced:
Tarragon Theatre, Toronto
1979
Company:
-
1st Published:
Unpublished,
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NEIL BARTLETT
Berenice
1st Produced:
1990
Company:
-
1st Published:
Absolute Classics, Bath, 1990
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JOHN CAIRNCROSS
Berenice
1st Produced:
1982
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GEOFFREY ALAN ARGENT
Britannicas
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books, 2003
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JOHN CAIRNCROSS
Britannicus
1st Produced:
1981
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ROBERT DAVID MACDONALD
Britannicus
1st Produced:
Albery, London
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Oberon Books
ISBN
9781840020830
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Revival
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GEOFFREY ALAN ARGENT
Iphigenia
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
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JOHN CAIRNCROSS
Iphigenia
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books , 1975
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JOHN CAIRNCROSS
Phaedra
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books , 1975
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JOHN EDMUNDS
Phaedra
1st Produced:
Pentameters, London
1994
Company:
Traffic Of The Stage
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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ROBERT LOWELL
Phaedra
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
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3
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5
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ROBERT DAVID MACDONALD
Phaedra
1st Produced:
1984
Company:
-
1st Published:
Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1985
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DEREK MAHON
Phaedra
1st Produced:
1996
Company:
The Gate Theatre
1st Published:
The Gallery Press, Republic of Ireland, 1996
ISBN
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine. The action takes place at the summer palace at Troezene
Synopsis:
Based on Euripides' 'Hippolytus' and the 'Phaedra of Seneca', Phaedra's main theme is the tragic misunderstanding between men and women. A wife falls violently in love with her unresponsive stepson while her husband and father fail to understand
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FRANK MCGUINNESS
Phaedra
1st Produced:
Donmar Warehouse, London
2006
Company:
-
1st Published:
-
ISBN
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Genre:
Play
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3
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5
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis:
A story about universal raw human emotions - hatred, greed, ambition and how you can never choose who you fall in love with
Ruth Leon, Daily Express
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EDWIN MORGAN
Phaedra
1st Produced:
2000
Company:
-
1st Published:
Carcarnet, 2000
ISBN
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JULIE ROSE
Phaedra
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books Drama Classic, 2001
ISBN
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PAUL SCHMIDT
Phaedra
1st Produced:
1999
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1st Published:
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Translation
Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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RICHARD WILBUR
Phaedra
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
978-0-8222-0890-7
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Genre:
translated into verse
Translation
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Male
3
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5
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis:
Based on a legend first dealt with by Euripides (in Greek) and Seneca (in Latin) the action of the play centers on the tragic fate of Phaedra, wife of Theseus, the King of Athens, who falls passionately in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. At first Phaedra attempts to deny her attraction for the handsome young Hippolytus, but when word arrives that Theseus has been slain, Phaedra declares her love, much to the shock and dismay of Hippolytus, who is deeply enamored of another. When Theseus then returns unharmed, Phaedra realizes the extent of her grievous error, and she makes no attempt to stop her loyal servant, Oenone, from falsely denouncing Hippolytus as a would-be seducer. Furious, Theseus sends his son into exilethereby setting in motion the inexorable series of events in which the lives of the characters spin wildly out of control and become subject to the will of the godswho exact their tragic and inevitable retribution.
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TONY HARRISON
Phaedra Britannica
1st Produced:
1975
Company:
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1st Published:
Rex Collings, London, 1975
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Synopsis:
ingenious transposition to 19th century Raj India, with the ancient and vengeful Gods of India taking over
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TED HUGHES
Phedre
1st Produced:
Albery, London
1998
Company:
-
1st Published:
Faber & Faber, London, 1998
ISBN
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Synopsis:
replaces Racine's alexandrines with lean English verse that serves to convey the passions of his protagonists
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WILLIAM PACKARD
Phedre
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY,
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis:
translated in rhymed alexandrine couplets
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MARGARET RAWLINGS
Phedre
1st Produced:
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1st Published:
Penguin Books, 1992
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RICHARD WILBUR
Suitors, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,
ISBN
978-0-8222-1804-3
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Translation
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6
Female
2
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Original Playwright - Jean Racine
Synopsis:
One of the most hilarious French plays ever written, Racine's only comedy (1688) tells of a judge named Nigaud who has lost his mind from overwork and yet is possessed with the desire to go to court and try cases day and night. His son, Léandre, abetted by Petit-Jean (the judge's porter) and Leclerc (the judge's clerk), does his best to confine him to his house and to deny access to litigious personssuch as Chicanneau and the Countess of Pimbeschewho wish to consult him regarding their current lawsuits. The mad judge, however, threatens constantly to escape, and the situation is resolved only when Léandre persuades his father to stay at home and be the presiding judge of his own householdbeginning with an uproarious trial of the family dog for filching a capon from the kitchen. That plot, which Racine adapted from Aristophanes' The Wasps, is interlaced with a love-intrigue out of the commedia dell'arte. Léandre loves his neighbor, Isabelle, who is imprisoned in the house of a father (Chicanneau) who reserves all his money for legal squabbles and will not give her a dowry. A good part of Act Two consists of an intricate hoax in which Léandre and Leclerc, disguised as a magistrate and bailiff, get the better of Chicanneau and make possible the happy ending of Act Three. At the close of the play, Judge Nigaud is looking forward to many more intramural trials, and Léandre is betrothed to the spirited and charming Isabelle.
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