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Three Plays: Phaedra / Brittanicus / Andromache

"George Dillon has elected for speed and clarity; his speed, of which short quotations can impart no notion, is his equivalent for Racine's impetuous dexterity with the French Alexandrine... Momentum, in such a version, is everything. It stands as a homage to Racine's strength of construction ... and to the expressive power of his themes, on which Mr. Dillon's prefaces have eloquent and sensible things to say." — Hugh Kenner, National Review

"His literal and flexible blank verse actually forms the nearest thing in English to the longer-measured rhymed couplets of Racine; even an ordinary reading aloud of so faithful a rendering provides something of the experience that Proust described." — Elliott Coleman, Poetry

"A superb introduction ... flawless translations, infused with poetic fire and charm." — Margaret Carpenter, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 212
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780226150772
  • Genres
  • classics, plays, theatre, drama, literature, poetry
  • Release date
  • 1961