Britannicus - Jean Racine - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780192817587 - July 9, 1987
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Jean Racine
Britannicus

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Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is the bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra's doomed love for her stepson Hippolytus. Athaliah (1691), Racine's last and perhaps finest play, draws on the Old Testament story of Athaliah, Queen of Judah and worshipper of Baal, who is threatened and finally forced to concede victory to Joash, a son of the house of David and survivor of Athaliah's massacres. Racine's tragedies portray characters wrestling with ambition, treachery, religion, and love. In this translation, specially commissioned for The World's Classics series, C. H. Sisson has captured the lucidity of Racine's language, both analytic and passionate, and the rhythm of his four-part Alexandrine.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released July 9, 1987
ISBN13 9780192817587
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 234
Dimensions 110 × 180 × 12 mm   ·   127 g
Language English  

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