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Les Plaideurs
''Les Plaideurs'', or ''The Litigants'', written in 1668 and published in 1669, is a comedy in three acts with respectively eight, 14, and four scenes, in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine. It is the only comedy he wrote. It was inspired by ''The Wasps'' by Aristophanes, but Racine removed all political significance. His play, which he wrote after ''Andromaque'' and before ''Britannicus'', was a farce Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. Farce is also characterized by heavy use of physical humor; the use of deliberate absurdity o ... that, surrounded in his work by tragedies, was unexpected. ''Les Plaideurs'' was first performed late in 1668 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Roles * Dandin ("ninny"), ''a judge.'' Dandin is senile and has been forced into retirement. His idée fixe is to keep holding trials, and he finally turns his own home into a court of ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racine - Les Plaideurs, Barbin, 1669
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( , ) (; 22 December 163921 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Pierre Corneille, Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a Tragedy, tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as ''Phèdre'', ''Andromaque'', and ''Athalie''. He did write one comedy, ''Les Plaideurs'', and a muted tragedy, ''Esther (play), Esther'' for the young. Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage (theatre), stage. Biography Racine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
