...Jean Racine © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000 THE30.1-08Racine@AK 2/8/00 6:13 PM Page 102 Phèdre, act 3, scene 5. Engraving from Oeuvres complètes de J. Racine (Paris: Furne, Libraire-Editeur, 1829), following p. 218...

... about ideas and contributed critical essays to the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and Delos. Paul completed his translation of Racine’s Phèdre in November and December 1998, when it was staged at the American Repertory Theatre. Recently, I spoke with Liz...

... of blue appears of men,” and Phaedra’s suicide is par- 56 ticularly inseparable from language. tion that laments a long-shattered we are the light of moonlight Roland Barthes wrote of Racine’s world. A final coda of disorientation Phedre: “It is a tragedy of the impri- follows...

... Don’t sleep Don’t sleep Macbeth does murder the sleep of Racine’s Phèdre and an interview In the cold moon the axe and necks are mirrored with his frequent collaborator Liz...

..., Griffon-House, Whitestone, NY, 1986 Repertory Theater. Prior to joining YSD/YRT, Dean Richards acted and (paper) $6.95. directed on and Off Broadway, as well as in radio and television, winning Phedre by Jean Racine, Le Livre de Poche, Paris, 1985 (paper). major recognition early in his career...

..., Griffon-House, Whitestone, NY, 1986 Repertory Theater. Prior to joining YSD/YRT, Dean Richards acted and (paper) $6.95. directed on and Off Broadway, as well as in radio and television, winning Phedre by Jean Racine, Le Livre de Poche, Paris, 1985 (paper). major recognition early in his career...

... production we re going to talk about: To You, the Birdie!, a 2001 piece which springs from Racine s Phèdre. Liz, what were the origins of this piece? Liz LeCompte I would like to say that I just realized I didn t decenter Racine I centered him. So, I have to reinterpret your decenter. I recall...

... provocatively set in Nazi-­occupied Poland gradually assumes overtones of Euripides’s The Bacchae and Racine’s Phèdre, as well as Hamlet and Othello. As in the late plays of Shakespeare, the elements of comedy, pas- toral, and tragedy in Pornografia are freely blended, but here they are embedded...

.... His productions of Joseph Brodsky’s Marble (1996), Strindberg’s The Father (1999), and Racine’s Phèdre (2000) became true events. Grigory Kozlov followed psychological tradition in such productions as Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment at Theater for Young Audiences (TUZ) and Ostrovsky’s...

... career in the 50's as an actor while, however, making his living as a translator of Russian, German, and Greek texts. -In the early 60's his 8 In Vitez' earlier work with the classics (Andromaque, 1971; Electra, 1972; Phedre, work with the poet Louis Aragon and a stint at the Maison de la culture...

... were inherited by the up-a­ nd-­coming star Molé. Relatedly, at the difference of analogous tragic leading roles like Phèdre or Alzire, which actors used to cut their teeth on or to prove their talent, some of Molière s leading roles were dominated by a single actor for the entirety of their career...

... of every sort.” Voltaire slyly includes debauch of feudal France. artifice of every kind, deception, self-deception, the gestures The absolute, baroque passions and defects of a Phedre or that speak civility but mask a Marquise de Merteuil. Marivaux a nrtuffe are so...