by Jean Racine · Bordas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782040107192
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«Les Plaideurs» is the satirical comedy by Jean Racine, published by Bordas in paperback (127 pages, in French).
Satirical comedy inspired by Aristophanes' The Wasps, ridiculing the mania for lawsuits and legal obsessions through extravagant characters and absurd situations. It is Jean Racine's only comedy, an essentially tragic author, and in it he mocks lawyers and judges with lively dialogues and far-fetched entanglements.
1981 edition, part of the «Univers des lettres Bordas» collection, presenting the complete text accompanied by an illustrated critical study.
Aimed at students and scholars of French classical theater, thanks to its critical apparatus and historical contextualization of 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.
