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selected bibliography I include in the secondary-sources section only those few works to which I refer in the Discussion or the Notes and Commentary. There are countless other studies available, in English and French; a helpful selection may be found in the bibliography of Ronald W. Tobin’s Jean Racine Revisited. As Roland Barthes’s Sur Racine is one of the most important and thought provoking, I thought it expedient to refer the reader to the English-language edition. primary sources Racine, Jean. Oeuvres complètes. Ed. Georges Forestier. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. Vol. 1. Paris: Gallimard, 1999. ———. Oeuvres complètes. Ed. Raymond Picard. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade . Vol. 1. Paris: Gallimard, 1980. secondary sources Barthes, Roland. On Racine. Trans. Richard Howard. New York: Performing Arts Journal, 1963. Dean, Winton. Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios and Masques. London: Oxford University Press, 1959. Lapp, John C. Aspects of Racinian Tragedy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1955. Tobin, Ronald W. Jean Racine Revisited. New York: Twayne, 1999. Turnell, Martin. Jean Racine Dramatist. New York: New Directions Books, 1972. ...

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