by Jean Racine · Librio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782290151358
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«Bérénice» is the five-act tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Librio in paperback (128 pages, in French).
In ancient Rome, Emperor Titus loves Bérénice, queen of Palestine, but a law prevents him from marrying a foreign sovereign. Titus must choose between glory and love; his friend Antiochus suffers in silence. Racine makes separation, not blood, the center of this 1670 tragedy.
Complete text in French, with a pedagogical dossier aligned with new curricula and a preface for the composite commentary. The play premiered in 1670.
Edition designed for secondary school students in France (classes de 4e et de seconde) and for readers interested in classical French theater.
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.
