by Jean Racine, Léonce Girard · Hachette · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782010023378
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«Britannicus» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, edited by Léonce Girard, published by Hachette in paperback (171 pages, in French).
The play is set in the Roman court during Nero's reign and portrays the political and family intrigues surrounding imperial power. Racine combines ambition, love and betrayal in characters trapped between loyalty and self-interest, with poetic language that maintains a growing dramatic tension.
The play is a tragedy in five acts premiered in 1669. This edition, with the complete text in French, belongs to Hachette's Nouveaux classiques illustrés collection.
It is intended for students of French literature and for readers of 17th-century classical theatre who want to read it in its original language.
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.
