5 results for '"Jean Racine"'

Text: French, Greek

Pièce à part parmi les grandes tragédies de Racine, cette comédie est une satire des hommes de loi, menée dans la tradition de la commedia dell'arte.

Racine's poetry is always thought to be untranslatable; so one of the world's great dramatists remains inaccessible to readers without French. This is the best translation into English; Professor...

"There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers than philosophers, that art is somehow explained by philosophy. It is not." The philosopher Simon...

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...