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CO R NE ILLE  \nE DITED BY WL G.MooRE  \nu  \nP.   CO R N E I LL E  \nHR A CE  \nEDITE D BY WI LL G.Mo0 REFellow and Tutor of Saint John's College,Oxford  \nBASILBLACKWELL ·OXFORD  \nPrinted in Great Britain for BASIL BLACKWELL&MoTT LTD.at THE VINCENT WoRKs in the City of Oxford  \n# I NTR ODUCTION\n\nThis Edition.  \nOf all classical plays Horace stands perhaps in most needof careful editing.Its importance as the first regular tragedyof the greatest period of French dramatic writing makes aclose study of its form and structure essential.Its _fame asa masterpiece makes it indispensable to students of Corneille.On the other hand,its form,no less than its history,makes itsingularly difficult of appreciation.In its own day it un-doubtedly provided aesthetic enjoyment of a high order.Itsauthor was acclaimed by the best judges a master of tragedy,and so he has been officially considered since.It is the aimof the present edition so to present the play that such enjoy-ment become once more possible for the student.  \nFrom the editions of both French and English scholarsI have learnt much,but for the modern university teachertheir work is in more than one respect inadequate.It obscuresthe play with a mass of extraneous matter,it offers a confusedtext and(perhaps most important in the case of a play sonotoriously difficult of interpretation)it omits all aids to theunderstanding of the play's main issues.The principles ofthis edition amount to little more than reaction against thesethree features.In support of it I can only plead the convictionresulting from several years of teaching French classical litera-ture,that presented on their merits and stripped of the accre-tions of prejudice and convention,its dramas may still provide,not only a fascinating study,but a real artistic experience.  \nIf I may deal with the points mentioned in order,thisvolume contains no general information as to the conditionsand development of French classical drama or the life ofPierre Corneille.That is available in more detailed and in-teresting form elsewhere,as the bibliographical appendixshows.Nor does it offer the usual text of the play,and thisneeds more explanation.Horace was first published in I64Iand was drastically revised nearly twenty years later owingto a notable polemic between its author and the neo-classical  \nINT RODUCTION  \ncritics of the day.Their doctrine was in essence that whichCorneille had foreshadowed in his plays,but more academically,and even pedantically,developed.But in consequence of it,Corneille submitted all his plays to revision,prefaced the newedition of his collected work with essays on the drama,anda short analysis of each play.In the case of Horace,thisExamen has been printed in all succeeding editions.With theextract from Livy on which the material of the play is based,it precedes the text.But this is exactly what it should notdo,since it gives to a text of I64I the views and interpretationof I660.For any historical study of French classicism it isfatal to confuse the one date with the other.And just as theExamen disposes the reader to consider a product of I660,that is what the reader finds before him.Comparison withthe original version shows that expressions have been modified,lines changed,sentiments standardised in accordance with acode.This code demanded apparently the exclusion of thefinal scene.  \nThus it is clear that the beginning of any accurate interpret-ation of Horace must be a reading of the original text.Thisedition therefore gives the text of the first printed edition andnotes all the changes made by Corneille in his final edition ofI682,which has in other modern editions been adopted as thenorm.In a sense that is so.The editors of the GrandsEcrivains series were undoubtedly right in printing Corneille’sfinally accepted text.But it is equally clear that the play'soriginal force can only be inferred from the original text.As long as we ask students to evaluate a work of I640 in a formof I680,we are practically urg","cbCaipDLdY4d2eZP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipDLdY4d2eZP","pdf",4196613,112,"English","# Introduction\n## Editorial purpose\n## Sources and historical context\n## The 1641 and 1682 revisions\n## Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of this edition’s introduction?\",\"answer\":\"It explains how the edition edits Horace so students can regain appreciation of the play, correcting shortcomings of earlier editions.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the editor criticize older editions?\",\"answer\":\"They add extraneous material, present a confused text, and omit practical aids for understanding the play’s main issues.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the edition treat the relationship between the 1641 text and later revisions?\",\"answer\":\"It provides the first printed 1641 text and notes the changes Corneille made in his final 1682 edition, warning against confusing the two dates when interpreting classicism.\"}]","I NTR ODUCTION - This Edition | PDF",1791882158,172]