TY  - BOOK
AU  - Auchincloss,Louis
TI  - La gloire: the Roman Empire of Corneille and Racine 
SN  - 0585334072
AV  - PQ1772 .A95 1996eb
U1  - 842/.4093237 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Columbia, S.C.
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
KW  - Corneille, Pierre,
KW  - Racine, Jean,
KW  - DRAMA
KW  - Continental European
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Romance Literatures
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - French Literature
KW  - Rome
KW  - In literature
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Horace -- Sophonisbe -- Nicomede -- Sertorius -- Mithridate -- La Mort de Pompee -- Cinna -- Britannicus -- Othon -- Tite et Berenice -- Polyeucte -- Theodore and Pulcherie -- Attila -- Surena
N2  - "In a charming collection of elegant essays, one of the twentieth century's leading men of letters turns his vast knowledge and worldly authority to the texts of two seventeenth-century French dramatists. Louis Auchincloss considers sixteen plays by Pierre Corneille (1606-84) and his younger theatrical rival, Jean Racine (1639-99). Musing on the ideas that informed the court of the Sun King and on what classical allusions meant to them, Auchincloss offers thoughtful readings, new translations, and a wealth of shrewd observations about French classic tragedy, passion, self-sacrifice, self-aggrandizement, and civic and military glory." "Auchincloss lets the grand voices of Corneille's and Racine's heroes and heroines speak, while calling attention to details and discoveries that illumine aspects of both seventeenth-century and twentieth-century culture. He specifically considers the theme of gloire - the lofty destiny or mission that the hero (and more rarely the heroine) has set for himself and for which he would willingly sacrifice the most passionate romance, closest friendship, or dearest family ties. While gloire is more commonly associated with Corneille than with Racine, Auchincloss demonstrates that these French masters were capable of swapping predilections when it came to the Roman plays."--Jacket
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