This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine’s plays.
This book's dedicatee, Richard Parish, passed away on January 1st 2022, just before publication. We would like to dedicate this collection of essays to his memory.
Britannicus
" Belle, sans ornements, dans le simple appareil D'une beauté qu'on vient d'arracher au sommeil.
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This is the fifth volume of a projected translation into English of all twelve of Jean Racine's plays. Geoffrey Alan Argent's translations faithfully convey all the urgency and keen psychological...
These Neo-Palladians guided the course of British architecture toward classical principles, and the Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) reflects their vision. A sumptuous collection of magnificent copperplate engravings, ...
Bibliographical Note This Dover edition, first published in 2009, is an unabridged republication of all the plates from the two later parts of the series Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect, which began with Volume 1–3, ...
Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero.