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INDEX
Abrégé de l'histoire de Port-Royal,
241, 310, 321
Académie Française, R. enters,
189 ; R. welcomes Thomas
Corneille to, 281
Agamemnon (in Iphigénie), R.'s
treatment of, 199 - 200
Agrippine (in Britannicus), char-
acterization of, 127 ; compared
with Phèdre, 222 - 223
Alceste, R.'s supposed project
of, 205
Alceste (La Grange-Chancel), 286
Alceste, ou Le Triomphe d'Alcide
( Quinault-Lully), 194
Alcestis ( Euripides), 193 - 195
Alexander VII, Pope, 24
Alexandre, produced by Molière,
69, 71, 99 ; technique of,
69 - 70 ; produced by Hôtel de
Bourgogne, 72 ; success of, 73 ;
preface to, 73 ; Corneille and,
114 ; identification of characters
in, 116, 266 ; mentioned, 102,
104, 119, 128, 160, 163
Amasie, rejected by the Marais
company, 20 - 21 ; La Grange-
Chancel and, 286
Amores (Ovid), R.'s play based on,
21, 23, 25
Amours d'Ovide, Les (Gilbert), 23,
57
Amours de Psyche (La Fontaine),
166
Andromaque, Molière produces
parody of, 73, 87 ; performed
in the Louvre, 86 ; first public
performance, 86 ; triumph of,
87 ; inspiration of, 87 - 88 ;
dramatic qualities, 89 - 91, 232,
332 ; poetry of, 91 - 92 ; sup-
posed to be written for the Du
Parc, 95, 99 - 102 ; marked
advance in, 102 ; type-roles of,
127, 128, 138 - 139 ; Henrietta
of England's interest in, 132 ;
compared with Bajazet, 180 ;
R.'s new preface to, 204 ; sense
of fatality in, 224 ; psychological
truth in, 230, 231 ; acted at
Saint-Cyr, 256 ; Comédie
Française performances of,
279 n.; mentioned, 48 n., 110,
135, 163, 164, 170, 172
Anjou, Sconin family's benefice in,
35, 38, 48 ; and origin of Les
Plaideurs, 108
Apollon vendeur de Mithridate
(D'Aucour), 203 - 204
Ariane ( T. Corneille), 117, 174 n.
Aricie (in Phèdre), character of,
229
Armagnac, Countess of, 71
Arnauld family (founders of Port-
Royal), 3
Arnauld, Antoine ("the Great"),
on Phèdre, 228 ; approves of
Esther, 260 ; 'projection' of in
Athalie 277 ; Boileau's admira-
tion of, 305 ; exile of, 306 -
307 ; R.'s homage to, 307 n.;
his praise of R., 311 ; men-
tioned, 7, 80, 219
Arnauld, Jacqueline Marie ( Mère
Angélique), 8, 24
Arnauld d'Andilly, Robert, 8, 160
Art Poétique ( Boileau), 159, 161
Ash Wednesday ( Eliot), 268

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Publication Information: Book Title: Jean Racine: A Critical Biography. Contributors: Geoffrey Brereton - author. Publisher: Cassell. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1951. Page Number: 347.
    
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