Jean Racine

Racine : Complete Plays, Volume 1

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In this it seems to fight the myth, since the myth starts from contradictions and gradually tends to mediate them: tragedy, on the contrary, immobilizes contradictions, refuses mediation, keeps the conflict open; and it is true that whenever Racine takes a myth to convert it into tragedy, it is always in a sense to challenge it, paralyze it, make it a fable Roland Barthes, Sur Racine. "Racinian tragedy is one of the…

Racine : Complete Plays, Volume 2

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"The romantics offend this theatre without images. To prefer the narrative to the stage exhibition of the great murders and the great wonders, they believe that it is to flee the difficulty: it is to seek it, on the contrary, since it is to refuse the help of the physical and the sensitive, the director and the machinist, the lights, the colors, the agitation, the actor and the spectator even. The author assumes the…

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