by Jean Racine · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782038717327
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«Berenice» is the tragic play by Jean Racine, published by Larousse in paperback (223 pages, in French).
After five years of relationship, Titus, who becomes emperor on the death of Vespasian, prepares to set aside Queen Berenice: can a Roman emperor marry a foreign queen? Racine turns this political dilemma into an elegy on love, duty and renunciation, and leaves open the question of whether Berenice can live without Titus.
Paperback edition in the Petits Classiques Larousse collection, with the complete text of the work and 223 pages.
Aimed at students of French literature and readers of classical theater, given its nature as a study edition.
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.
