JEAN RACINE (1639 - 1699)
adaptations/translations by modern playwrights
| Nationality: | French |
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Adaptations - Translations of Plays by Jean Racine
1953 |
| 1st Produced: | 1992 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine (Andromaque) | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books, 2003 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Andromache, Britanicus and Berenice" published by Penguin Books, 1968 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | 1985 | |||||
| Company: | Cheek By Jowl | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz, Berlin | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
| Company: | Schaubuhne Am Lehniner Platz, Berlin | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| 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. | |||||
Andromache |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | - | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Andromaque |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Andromaque |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, London, 1989 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Athaliah |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books , 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Bajazet |
| 1st Produced: | Tarragon Theatre, Toronto | 1979 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Unpublished, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Berenice |
| 1st Produced: | 1990 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Absolute Classics, Bath, 1990 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Berenice |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Britannicas |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books, 2003 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Britannicus |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Britannicus |
| 1st Produced: | Albery, London | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Oberon Books | ISBN | 9781840020830 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | Revival | |||||
Iphigenia |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Racine Complete Plays volume One" published by Varsity Books, 2003 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Iphigenia |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books , 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Contained in: "Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah" published by Penguin Books , 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | Pentameters, London | 1994 | ||||
| Company: | Traffic Of The Stage | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1984 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Amber Lane Press, Oxford, 1985 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1996 | |||||
| Company: | The Gate Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | The Gallery Press, Republic of Ireland, 1996 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | 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 | |||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | Donmar Warehouse, London | 2006 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | 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 | |||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 2000 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Carcarnet, 2000 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translated | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ||||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Nick Hern Books Drama Classic, 2001 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | 1999 | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Phaedra |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN | 978-0-8222-0890-7 | |||
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| Genre: | translated into verse | Translation | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | 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. | |||||
Phaedra Britannica |
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Rex Collings, London, 1975 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | ingenious transposition to 19th century Raj India, with the ancient and vengeful Gods of India taking over | |||||
Phedre |
| 1st Produced: | Albery, London | 1998 | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Faber & Faber, London, 1998 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Adapatation/translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 4 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | replaces Racine's alexandrines with lean English verse that serves to convey the passions of his protagonists | |||||
Phedre |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Samuel French, NY, | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 5 |
| Parts Other: | extras | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | translated in rhymed alexandrine couplets | |||||
Phedre |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Penguin Books, 1992 | ISBN | - | |||
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| Genre: | Translation | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | Original Playwright - Jean Racine | |||||
| Synopsis: | - | |||||
Suitors, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | - | ||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, | ISBN | 978-0-8222-1804-3 | |||
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| Genre: | - | Translation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | 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. | |||||