by Jean Racine · Flammarion · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782081238046
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«Britannicus» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Flammarion in paperback (116 pages, in French).
The play is set at the beginning of Nero's reign and shows the rise of his tyranny: power struggles, palace intrigues and destructive passions drag the characters towards disaster. Racine portrays the emperor's perversity and the fragility of those around him, culminating in a tragic outcome.
This edition, dated 2010, includes an introduction by Jacques Morel and an interview with François Taillandier about the work.
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.
