by Racine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011693105
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«Bérénice» is the play by Jean Racine, published by Hachette Education in paperback (160 pages, in French).
Set in the Roman court, the play presents a conflict between love and duty: the characters are torn between their feelings and the political demands that surround them. Sacrifice and renunciation are the axes of a plot sustained by dialogue and emotional tension.
Edition from the Classiques Hachette collection (No. 103), presenting the complete text of the 1697 edition, with explanatory notes, questionnaires, documents about the work and about Jean Racine, and thematic analysis.
Intended for students of French and for readers approaching classical French theater with didactic support.
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.
