A lean, high-tension version of a classic tragedy.
The myth of Phaedra is one of the most powerful in all of classical mythology. As dramatized by the French playwright Jean Racine (1639-99), the dying Queen's obsessive love for her stepson, Hippolytus, and the scrupulously upright Hippolytus' love for the forbidden beauty Aricia has come to be known as one of the great stories of tragic infatuation, a tale of love strong enough to bring down a kingdom.
In this "tough, unrhyming avalanche of a translation" (Paul Taylor, The Independent), Hughes replaces Racine's alexandrines with an English verse that serves eloquently to convey the passions of his protagonists. The translation was performed to acclaim in London in 1998, and the London production, starring Diana Rigg, was staged in 1999 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"We are still catching up with Ted Hughes's gift for narrative verse after his Tales from Ovid," one English critic observed after the London premiere. "Little needs to happen on stage when there's a swirling action-packed disaster movie-riddled with sex and violence-in Hughes's free verse."
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Commentary on Phèdre ActIV, Scene 2/3 The objective of this essay is to explain the source of tension in the extract and to access how elements of classical tragedies and geo-political backgrounds are inferred and cor...
評分講的是一女人想以自己的情感力量去反叛,但新的秩序沒能建立,最後順理成章地失敗瞭。 心疼費德爾,至少她在“女性要自我弱化“的環境裏想彰顯自己的情緒和意願,至少她有勇氣去主動告白,在某種難於行動的睏境中。氣拉辛,把她塑造得戰鬥值為零,為女性氣質(接近於無法作為,...
評分Commentary on Phèdre ActIV, Scene 2/3 The objective of this essay is to explain the source of tension in the extract and to access how elements of classical tragedies and geo-political backgrounds are inferred and cor...
評分講的是一女人想以自己的情感力量去反叛,但新的秩序沒能建立,最後順理成章地失敗瞭。 心疼費德爾,至少她在“女性要自我弱化“的環境裏想彰顯自己的情緒和意願,至少她有勇氣去主動告白,在某種難於行動的睏境中。氣拉辛,把她塑造得戰鬥值為零,為女性氣質(接近於無法作為,...
評分講的是一女人想以自己的情感力量去反叛,但新的秩序沒能建立,最後順理成章地失敗瞭。 心疼費德爾,至少她在“女性要自我弱化“的環境裏想彰顯自己的情緒和意願,至少她有勇氣去主動告白,在某種難於行動的睏境中。氣拉辛,把她塑造得戰鬥值為零,為女性氣質(接近於無法作為,...
圖書標籤: 外國文學 Racine 戲劇 translation, play, SJC.JR SJC Jean_Racine
怪獸的陰影;明與暗、日與夜的意象;情欲釋放與道德剋製;刻在傢族係譜中的命定罪惡;神祇無情地操控著人間的一切;新古典主義律令使得全劇結構整飭;在原有故事基礎上,拉辛增加Aricia一角以使Hippolytus富有心理深度,而非單純厭女。
評分拉辛筆下一個經典悲劇女性。我一口氣看瞭一半這種事我會亂說?嘿
評分“You have seen me relentless to hurt you, but you never looked any deeper.” “Look — my heart. Here. Bury your sword here.”
評分拉辛太正統,不叛逆,看完也無甚酣暢淋灕的感覺。情欲如燎原的火,動情就是走嚮精神和肉體的死亡。大肆燃燒後,無人生還,隻餘灰燼,死亡隻是就微不足道的贖罪。
評分“You have seen me relentless to hurt you, but you never looked any deeper.” “Look — my heart. Here. Bury your sword here.”
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