Tragedies.
Beautiful Letters| N° d'inventaire | 12593 |
| Format | 11 x 18 |
| Détails | 672 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2011 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251800196 |
Classic bilingual collection. Seneca's tragedies directly, and sometimes literally, inspired Shakespeare, Corneille, and Racine, and yet, until the 20th century, they were considered unperformable and had a terrible reputation among critics. Everything changed in 1932 when Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff staged Médée, arousing the enthusiasm of Antonin Artaud, who from then on saw in him "the greatest tragic author in history [...]. I weep when I read his inspired theater, and I sense beneath the words of the syllables crackling in the most atrocious way the bubbling forces of chaos. Today, we no longer ask ourselves whether Seneca is performable; we perform him. Versified writing is a major stage element of these texts, a large part of which was sung, even danced. It is for this reason, among others, that they will be found translated here, not only line for line, but with the same metrical variety as in the original text.
Classic bilingual collection. Seneca's tragedies directly, and sometimes literally, inspired Shakespeare, Corneille, and Racine, and yet, until the 20th century, they were considered unperformable and had a terrible reputation among critics. Everything changed in 1932 when Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff staged Médée, arousing the enthusiasm of Antonin Artaud, who from then on saw in him "the greatest tragic author in history [...]. I weep when I read his inspired theater, and I sense beneath the words of the syllables crackling in the most atrocious way the bubbling forces of chaos. Today, we no longer ask ourselves whether Seneca is performable; we perform him. Versified writing is a major stage element of these texts, a large part of which was sung, even danced. It is for this reason, among others, that they will be found translated here, not only line for line, but with the same metrical variety as in the original text.