by Jean Racine, Valérie Combel · Hachette Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782011678171
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«Bérénice» is the five-act tragedy by Jean Racine and Valérie Combel, published by Hachette Education in paperback (159 pages, in French).
Five-act tragedy premiered in 1670. Titus, emperor of Rome, loves Bérénice, queen of Palestine, whom he was to marry, but his duty forces him to renounce her for the good of Rome. Antiochus, who loves her hopelessly, completes the triangle: the three face love, duty and an inevitable farewell. A tragedy without blood, of psychological intensity and classical rigour.
School edition from the Classiques de Hachette collection, with the complete text according to the 1697 edition; Valérie Combel appears as co-author of the volume.
School edition aimed at secondary school students and designed for the study of French classical theatre in the classroom.
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.
