Phèdre

In Phèdre, Racine again chose a subject already treated by Greek and Roman tragic poets. In the absence of her husband, King Thésée, Phèdre falls in love with Hippolyte, son of Thésée of a preceding marriage. Act 1. Hippolyte, son of Thésée and of an Amazon, announces to his confidant his intention to leave the city of Trézène to flee his love for Aricie, the only living descendant of a enemy clan of Thésée. Phèdre, wife of Thésée, is dragging herself around the palace wanting to die, and is pleaded with b ...

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1677 - Events. May 31 - Danish ships clash with Swedish ships under Niels Iuel between Femern and Warnemunde - Danish defeat the Swedish and capture number of ships November 16 - French troops occupy Freiburg First performance of Racine's tragedy, Phèdre Sarah Churchill marries John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough Battle of Cassel, Philippe I of Orléans defeats William of Orange Mary II of England marries William of Orange English ...

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A tragedy may be defined loosely as any work of fiction in which the protagonist suffers a fall in his or her fortunes, and ends in a worse state than that in which they began. Works as diverse as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, Hedda Gabler and Scarface may thus be classified as tragedies. Throughout much of Western thought, however, tragedy has been defined in more precise terms, following the precepts set out by Aristotle: it is a form of drama characterized by seriousness and dignity, usually involving a co ...

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Bérénice is a tragedy by the French 17th-century playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in 1670. Racine seems to have chosen the subject in competition with Pierre Corneille, who was working on his drama Tite et Bérénice at the same time. The subject was taken from the Roman historian Suetonius, who recounts the story of the Roman emperor Titus and Berenice of Cilicia, the sister of Herod Agrippa. Because Rome opposed their marriage, Titus had to renounce Berenice despite their love for each other. Racine raises t ...

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Schiller wrote many philosophical papers on ethics and aesthetics. He developed the concept of the Schöne Seele (beautiful soul), a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason, so that Pflicht und Neigung (duty and inclination) are no longer in conflict with one another; thus "beauty," for Schiller, is not merely a sensual experience, but a moral one as well: the Good is the Beautiful. His philosophical work was also particularly concerned with the question of human freedom, a preoccupation which also guided hi ...

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The Red and the Black is the story of Julien Sorel, the aesthete son of a carpenter in the fictional French village of Verrières, and his attempts to overcome his poor birth through posturing and telling people what they want to hear. The novel comprises two “books,” but each book has two major stories within it. The first book introduces Julien, who would rather spend his time with his nose in books or daydreaming about being in Napoleon’s (by then defunct) army than work with his carpenter father and brothers, who beat ...

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St. John's College was chartered in 1784 and later began granting bachelor's degrees. The first act of the newly chartered school was the incorporation of King William's School, a defunct grammar school established in 1696. The college took up residience in a building known as Bladen's Folly, which was originally built to be the state govenor's mansion, but was not completed. There was some association with the Freemasons early in the college's history, leading to speculation that it was named after Saint John the Evangelist, the patron sain ...

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Schiller wrote many philosophical papers on ethics and aesthetics. He synthesized the thought of Immanuel Kant with the thought of Karl Leonhard Reinhold.He developed the concept of the Schöne Seele (beautiful soul), a human being whose emotions have been educated by his reason, so that Pflicht und Neigung (duty and inclination) are no longer in conflict with one another; thus "beauty," for Schiller, is not merely a sensual experience, but a moral one as well: the Good is the Beautiful. His philosophical work was also particul ...

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French literature of the 17th century - Les Amours and Les histoires tragiques. In France, the period following the Wars of Religion saw the appearance of a new form of narrative fiction – that some critics have since termed the "sentimental novel" – which very quickly became a literary sensation thanks to the enthusiasm of a reading public searching for delight after so many years of conflict. These relatively short (and often realistic) novels of love (or "amours" as they are frequently called in the ...

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Published in 54 volumes, The Great Books of the Western World covers topics including fiction, history, poetry, natural science, mathematics, philosophy, drama, politics, religion, economics, and ethics. The first volume, titled The Great Conversation, contains an introduction and discourse on liberal education by Hutchins. The next two volumes, "The Great Ideas: A Syntopicon", were conceived by Adler as a way of emphasizing the unity of the set and, by extension, of Western thought in general. A team of indexers spent months c ...

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The French language is a romance dialect derived from Vulgar Latin and heavily influenced principally by Celtic and Frankish. Beginning in the 11th century, literature written in medieval French was one of the oldest vernacular (non-Latin) literatures in western Europe and it became a key source of literary themes in the Middle Ages across the continent. Although the European prominence of French literature was eclipsed in part by vernacular literature in Italy in the 14th century, literature in France in the 16th century underwent a ...

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The classical tradition of Greek and Roman tragedy was largely forgotten in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the beginning of 16th century, and public theater in this period was dominiated by mystery plays, morality plays, farces and miracle plays, etc. As early as 1503 however, original language versions of Sophocles, Seneca, Euripides, Aristophanes, Terence and Plautus were all available in Europe and the next forty years would see humanists and poets both translating these classics and adapting them. In the 1540s, the continental un ...

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St. John's curriculum has drawn criticism and inspired controversy since its inception. It went far beyond the then-existing Columbia University and University of Chicago Great Books programs in making the Great Books the entire curriculum rather than one of many courses of study, and in extending the Great Books approach to the sciences as well as the humanities. Writing in 1938, just after the first group of freshmen completed their first semester under the new curriculum, Stringfellow Barr^{See also:}

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The program involves: Four years of literature and philosophy in seminar Four years of mathematics Three years of laboratory science Two years of Ancient Greek Two years of French Freshman year chorus followed by sophomore year music The Great Books are not literally the only texts used at St. John's. Greek and French classes make use of supplemental materials that are more like traditional textbooks. Science laboratory courses and mathematics courses use manuals prepare ...

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St. John's is located at the foot of Monte Sol, on the eastern edge of Santa Fe. It was opened in 1964 due to the increase in qualified applicants at the Annapolis campus. The College chose to open a second campus rather than destroy the intimate feel of the Annapolis campus. The Santa Fe campus offers students a more secluded atmosphere and better weather than the Annapolis campus, in addition to the vast Pecos Wilderness and Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The college maintains gear to facilitate student use of the outdoors, such as kay ...

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St. John's is located in the Historic Annapolis district, one block away from the Maryland State Capitol building. Its proximity to the United States Naval Academy has inspired many a comparison to Athens and Sparta. The schools carry on a spirited rivalry seen in the annual croquet match between the two schools on the front lawn of St. John's, which has been called by Gentleman's Quarterly "the purest intercollegiate athletic event i ...

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In 1975, a St. John's graduate gave this description[13] of how a St. John's degree was received by other institutions: Bernard M. Davidoff, M. D., a graduate of St. John's in 1969 and of Columbia Medical School... said the medical schools to which he applied reacted to his unconventional preparation in two ways. "Those who had not heard of St. John's were not impressed. Those who knew of the college generally waived requirements." Like mos ...

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St. John's College U. S. - The Great Books. The same set of Great Books is the basis of the curriculum at both campuses of St. John's College. As of 2005, it is: Homer: Iliad, Odyssey Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Prometheus Bound Sophocles: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone, Philoctetes Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War Euripides: Hippolytus, Th ...

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Most of the chapters begin with epigrams that appear to be quotes from literature, poetry, or from famous personages. In reality, Stendhal himself wrote the majority of these epigrams, but attributed them to writers whom he thought capable of writing or saying such things. Stendhal left the last four chapters untitled. These are also the only four chapters that lack epigrams. The novel ends with Stendhal's standard closing quote, "To the Happy Few." This is either a reference to the few who could understand his writing, or a sardonic referenc ...

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A "writer's writer," Stendhal is known more in literary circles than to the public at large. Many writers have acknowledged his influence on their work and used his technique of detailed psychological description in their own stories. Leo Tolstoy considered Stendhal an enormous influence. André Gide felt that The Red and the Black was a novel far ahead of its time, and called it a novel for readers in the 20th century. Emile Zola and his fellow Fre ...

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