Racine in England (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Racine in England I trust the title ´Racine in England´ has led no one to expect a startling discovery in the biographical sphere. I have none to offer. It has not yet been suggested that Jean Racine ever set foot upon our shores, or that he was tempted at any moment in his career (as his friend the Fabulist undoubtedly was tempted) to cross the Channel and join the little group of French gentlemen in London whose exile was cheered by the wisdom of Saint-Evremond and the grace of Madame Mazarin. My subject is the reception which the tragedies of Racine met with among our ancestors, and the reputation they have borne during the seven or eight generations which have passed since they were first brought to the notice of English people. It would be strange if it had always stood at a dead level, and in any fair account of the matter several phases ought to be distinguished; but upon the whole, let it be said at once, the fluctuations of favour and disfavour do not seem to have been considerable. It is known that Racine was read from the first, in the original, by the small class of English people who, in the age of Dryden, looked eagerly to France for novelties in literature. A much wider public saw English translations or imitations of his plays performed upon our stage in the last quarter of the seventeenth century and the first of the eighteenth. Similar experiments had been made much earlier, and continued to be made, with Corneille. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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