LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. Keywords that describe the book: Babylon, persians Genres for the project: Plays/Drama/Tragedy Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:.

If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog?.Original publication date (if known): 1672.Does the project have an introduction or preface: No.

Number of sections (files) this project will have: 38.

Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):.

Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Jean Racine).

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Please note: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. Post a reply in this thread asking for the role you would like to record. If your recording is not completed by the deadline, your claim may be reassigned at the BC's discretion.Ĭlaiming roles: Look in the Magic Window below for the list of available roles. If you cannot complete the recording within this time, please post in the thread to relinquish your claim or to ask the BC for an extension. Source text (please read only from this text!): ĭeadline: Please submit your recording within 2 months of placing your claim. We completed the last Racine in less than a month. Sonia will play the slave Zara, being your ever trusty DPL in her few spare moments. A setting change - no longer Rome - but the Seraglio of Constantinople. Audio files can be found on our catalog page at Īnother Racine as we move to Volume 2 of his collected works. (Summary by The Translator) This project is complete. The capture of Babylon (or rather Bagdad) from the Persians by Sultan Amurath IV, on which the catastrophe of the plot depends, occurred only a year before the poet's birth, viz 1638.' 'The time to which this tragedy relates is much later than that of any other of Racine's historical plays.

Bajazet by Jean Racine