by Jean Racine · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011687029
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«Bérénice» is the tragedy by Jean Racine published by Hachette éducation in paperback (191 pages, in French).
Set in the Roman imperial court, the play presents the clash between love and reason of state. Bérénice, queen of Palestine, and the emperor Titus love each other, but Roman law prevents a foreign queen from becoming empress. Added to this dilemma is Antiochus, king of Commagene, secretly in love with Bérénice. The three sovereigns must renounce their feelings, and the pain of that renunciation becomes the true driving force of the tragedy.
The play premiered in 1670. This edition is part of the Bibliolycée collection from Hachette éducation and includes the complete annotated text and study material.
School edition aimed at secondary and high school students approaching classical French theater.
Jean-Baptiste Racine was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature. Racine was primarily a tragedian, producing such "examples of neoclassical perfection" as Phèdre, Andromaque, and Athalie. He did write one comedy, Les Plaideurs, and a muted tragedy, Esther, for the young.
