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Select Bibliography COLLECTED WORKS CEuvres, ed. P. Mesnard, 8 vols and 2 albums (Hachette, 1865-73, etc.) ('Les Grands Ecrivains de la France'). Theatre complet, ed. G. True, 4 vols (Societe des Belles-lettres, 1929-30) ('Les Textes fran<;:ais'). Original spelling and punctuation. CEuvres completes, ed. R. Picard, 2 vols (Galhmard, 1950), ('Bibliotheque de la Pleiade'). The latest complete and scholarly edition. Theatre complet, ed. M. Rat (Garnier, 196o). CEuvres completes, ed. P. Clarac (Seuil and Macmillan Co. of New York, 1962) ('L'Integrale'). No variants given. SINGLE PLAYS (a) English editions; introduction and commentary in English except where stated. Britannicus, ed. P. Butler (Cambridge U.P., 1967). Extensive biblio- graphy. --ed. W. H. Barber (Macmillan and StMartin's P., 1967). Berenice, ed. W. S. Maguinness (Manchester U.P., 1929, 1956). - ed. C. L. Walton (Oxford U.P., 1965). Bajazet, ed. C. Girdlestone (Blackwell, 1955). Entirely in French. Mithridate, ed. G. Rudler (Blackwell, 1943). Entirely in French. Phedre, ed. R. C. Knight (Manchester U.P., 1943, 1955). Athalie, ed. P. France (Oxford U.P., 1966). (b) Collection 'Mises en Scene' (Editions du Seuil). Line-by-line commentaries by producers of noteworthy Paris productions, illustra ted (but without scholarly authority). Bajazet, mise en scene et commentaires de X. de Courville (1947). Phedre, mise en scene et commentaircs de J.-L. Barrault (1946, 1959). Athalie, mise en scene et commentaires de G. le Roy (1952). 232 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS In blank verse unless otherwise stated. (Racine's poetic style being what it is, no translation must be expected to convey the full flavour.) The Dramatic Works of]. Racine. A metrical English version by R. B. Boswell ('Bohn's Standard Library') (H. G. Bohnet al., 1846, etc.). Berenice and Esther, trans. John Masefield and published separately (Heinemann, 1922). The Best Plays of Racine, translated in English rhyming verse by Lacy Lockert (Princeton U.P., 1936). Racine's Mid-career Tragedies, translated in English rhyming verse by Lacy Lockert (Princeton U.P., 1952). Jean Racine, Five Plays, trans. Kenneth Muir (MacGibbon & Kee and Hill & Wang, a Mermaid Dramabook, 1960). Andromache, Britan niws, Berenice, Phaedra, Athaliah. Phaedra, trans. John Caimcross (Droz, Geneva, 1958). Phaedra and other Plays [Iphigenia, Athaliah], trans. John Caimcross (Penguin Books, 1963, 1966). Andromache and other Plays [Britannicus, Berenice], trans. John Caimcross (Penguin Books, 1967). Phaedra and Figaro. Racine's Phaedra trans. Robert Lowell {Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961). Racine, Phaedra, trans. Robert Lowell (Faber, 1963). By general consent, a free paraphrase in a very different poetic idiom. BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM A. Adam, Histoire de Ia litterature franfaise au XVII• siecle, 5 vols (Domat, 1948-56) IV 277 ff, v 39 ff. R. Bray, La Formation de Ia doctrine classique en France (Hachette, 1927; Nizet, 1951). H. Bremond, Racine et Valery. Notes sur !'initiation poetique (Grasset, 1930). G. Brereton, jean Racine, a critical biography (Cassell, 1951). --An Introduction to the French Poets. Villon to the present day (Methuen 1956; University Paperbacks UPs, 1960). Ch. VI. P. Butler, Classicisme et baroque dans l'ceuJJre de Racine (Nizet, 1959). J.-G. Cahen, 'Le Vocabulaire de Racine', in Revue de linguistique romane, xvr, nos. 59-64 {Droz, 1956). A. F. B. Clark, jean Racine (Harvard U.P. and Oxford U.P., 1939). P. Claude!, Conversation sur Jean Racine (Gallimard, 1956). SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 233 Corneille and Racine: Parallels and Contrasts, ed. R. J. Nelson (Prentice Hall, 1966). All texts but two in French. A. A. Eustis, Racine devant Ia critique franfaise, 1838-1939 (U. of California P., 1949). P. France, Racine's Rhetoric (Oxford U.P., 1965). P. H. Frye, Romance and Tragedy (Jones, Boston, 1922; U. of Nebraska P., 1961). 'Racine', pp. 205 ff. M. Fubini, Jean Racine e Ia critica delle Slle tragedie (Sansoni, Societa tipografico editrice nazionale, Turin, 1925). J. Giraudoux, Jean Racine (Grasset, 1930); and in the same author's Litterature (Grasset, 1941) pp. 27-55, and other collections. Trans. P. M. Jones (Fraser, Cambridge, 1938). L. Goldmann, Le Dieu cache. Etude sur Ia vision tragique dans les 'Pensees' de Pascal et dans le theatre de Racine (Gallimard, 1955). Trans. P. Thody, The Hidden God (Routledge & Kegan Paul and Humanities P., 1964). --Racine (L'Arche, 1956). J. D. Hubert, Essai d' exegese racinienne: les secrets temoins (Nizet, 1956). R. Jasinski, Vers le vrai Racine, 2 vols (A. Colin, 1958). R. C. Knight, Racine et Ia Grece (Didier-Boivin, [1951] ). H. C. Lancaster, A History of French Dramatic Literature in the Seven teenth Century, 5 parts in 9 vols (Johns Hopkins P. and Presses Universitaires Franc;:aises, 1929-42; Gordian Press, 1966). Parts IV and V. G. Lanson, Esquisse d'une histoire de Ia tragedie franfaise (Columbia U.P., 1920; 2nd ed. Champion, 1927). J. C. Lapp, Aspects of Racinian Tragedy (Toronto U.P. and Oxford U.P., 1955, 1964; Canadian University Paperbacks, no. 28). V. Lugli, Racine (Formiggini, 1926). T. Maulnier, Racine (Librairie de la Revue Franc;:aise, 1935; Gallimard, 1936, 1947. 1954)· --Lecture de Phedre (Gallimard, 1942). F. Mauriac, La Vie de Jean Racine (Pion, 1928). G. May, Tragedie cornelienne, tragedie racinienne (U. of Illinois P., 1948). W. G. Moore, Racine: Britannicus (Arnold, 1960; Studies in French Literature, no. 1). P. Moreau, Racine, l'homme et l'cruvre (Boivin, 1943; Hatier, 1952). D. Momet, Jean Racine (Aux Armes de France, 1944). 234 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 0. de Mourgues, Racine, or The Triumph of Relevance (Cambridge U.P., 1967). --Autonomie de Racine (Corti, 1967). Revised and translated version of the preceding. R. Picard, La Carriere de Jean Racine (Gallimard, 1956, 1961). -- Corpus racinianum: Recueil-inventaire des textes et documents du XVII' siecle concernant Jean Racine (Les Belles Lettres, 1956). -- Supplement au 'Corpus racinianum' (Les Belles Lettres, 1961). -- Nouveau supplement, Troisieme supplement, in Jeunesse de Racine (La Ferte-Milon, 1963) p. 5 ff (1966) pp. 3 ff. See also J. Dubu, Raymundi Picard 'Corpori raciniano' addenda, ibid. (1960) pp. 30 ff. J. Pommier, Aspects de Racine. Suivi de l'histoire litteraire d'un couple tragique [Phedre and Hippolyte] (Nizet, 1954). J. Scherer, La Dramaturgie classique en France (Nizet, [1950, 1954] ). L. Spitzer, Linguistics and literary History (Princeton U.P. and Oxford U.P., 1948). 'The "recit de Theramene" ', pp. 87 ff. G. Lytton Strachey, 'Racine' (dated 1908), in Books and Characters (Chatto and Harcourt, Brace, 1922) pp. 3 ff, and Literary Essays, in the Collected Works (Chatto, 1948) pp. 58 ff. G. True, Jeatl Racine: l'reuvre, !'artiste, l'homme et le temps (Gamier, 1926). M. Turnell, 'Jean Racine', in The Classical Moment (Hamilton, 1947, 1964) pp. 131 ff. Embodies articles of 1939. E. Vinaver, Racine et Ia poesie tragique (Nizet, 1951, 1963). Trans. P. M. Jones, Racine and poetic Tragedy (Manchester U.P., 1955). K. Vossler, Jean Racine (Hueber, 1926; Roland, 1948). B. Weinberg, The Art ofJean Racine (Chicago U.P., 1963). Katherine E. Wheatley, Racine and English Classicism (U. of Texas P., 1956). E. E. Williams, Racine depuis 1885, essai de bibliographie raisonneeQohns Hopkins P., 1940). Notes on Contributors SIR C. M. BowRA, F.B.A., M.A., D.Litt., Warden ofWadham Col lege, Oxford; author of The Heritage of Symbolism, Sophoclean Tragedy, and many other studies of classical and modern literature. JuLES BRODY, Ph.D., Professor ofRomance Languages and Associate Dean of Faculty at Queen's College {University of New York); author of Boileau and Longinus, editor of French Classicism: a critical miscellany. PHILIP F. BUTLER, Ph.D., D.es-L., Laureat of the University of Lau sanne, Professor of French in the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff {University ofWales); author of Baroque et classicisme dans I' reuvre de Racine, and of a critical edition of Britannicus. JEAN DuB u, Professeur Agrege at the Lycee Saint-Louis (Paris), tutor at the Institut d' Anglais (Sorbonne, Annexe Censier); Secretaire Perpetuel of the Academie Racinienne (La Ferte-Milon and Uzes), organiser of the annual Sessions Raciniennes at Uzes and of the Ier Congres International Racinien (Uzes, 1961}; editor of the periodical Jeunesse de Racine and of a critical edition of Racine, Lettres d'Uzes. LuciEN GoLDMANN, D.es-L., Professeur at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (VIth Section, University ofParis) and Directeur of the Centre de Sociologie de Ia Litterature at the Institute of Sociology (University of Brussels}; author of Le Dieu cache: etude sur Ia vision tragique dans les Pensees de Pascal et dans le theatre de Racine. R. C. KNIGHT, M.A., D.es-L., Professor ofFrench in the University College of Swansea (University of Wales); author of Racine et Ia Grece, and of critical editions of Phedre and Corneille's Nicomede. JoHN C. LAPP, Ph.D., William H. Bonsall Professor of French at Stanford University; author of Aspects of Racinian Tragedy. JEAN PoMMIER, D.es-L., Member of the Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques (Paris), Professeur Honoraire at the Sorbonne and the College de France; author of Aspects de Racine, Creations 236 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS en litterature, and many works on nineteenth-century and modem French literature; general editor of the Revue d'Histoire litteraire de la France. GEORGES POULET, Docteur en Philosophic et Lettres, et en Droit (Liege), Professor of the History of French Literature in the Uni versity of Zurich, sometime Reader at the University of Edin burgh and Professor at Johns Hopkins University; author of Etudes sur le temps humain, La Distance interieure, Les metamorphoses du cercle, Le Point de depart, Mesure de l' instant. R. A. SAYCE, M.A., D.Phil., Reader in French Literature in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford; author of The French Biblical Epic in the Seventeenth Century, Style in French Prose, and a critical edition of Comeille' s Polyeucte.