Racine and Shakespeare
by
Stendhal
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1847498493
ISBN-13
9781847498496
Publisher
Alma Books Ltd
Imprint
Alma Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 10th, 2019
Print length
214 Pages
Weight
244 grams
Dimensions
12.90 x 19.80 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: plays & playwrights
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In this brilliant tour de force, Stendhal vigorously champions the spontaneous vitality of Shakespeare while condemning the rigid imitators of Corneille and Racine.
This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called Romanticism. Written sixteen years before ‘The Charterhouse of Parma’, it marked the beginning of his illustrious career and established him at the forefront of the French Romantic movement. The first part of ‘Racine and Shakespeare’ appeared as a pamphlet in 1823, when Waterloo was still bitterly alive in the French mind. In it, Stendhal vigorously championed the spontaneous vitality of Shakespeare while condemning the rigid imitators of Corneille and Racine. The second half of ‘Racine and Shakespeare’ appeared two years later in answer to a speech against Romanticism by the secretary of the Academie Francaise. It is a brilliant tour de force, an exchange of letters between an old classicist and a young Romanticiist, in which Stendhal defined Romanticism not only for his age but for all time.
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