by Jean Racine · La Seine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782877141642
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«Bérénice, Phèdre, Athalie» is the theatre volume that brings together three tragedies by Jean Racine, published by La Seine in paperback (254 pages, in French).
The three plays —Bérénice, Phèdre and Athalie— show characters trapped between passion and duty: love and renunciation, guilt, power and faith. Racine sustains psychological tension with a sober style, and vengeance and pride drag the protagonists toward dramatic situations of great intensity.
Jean Racine (1639-1699) was a seventeenth-century French playwright; this edition is from 1997.
For readers of classical theatre and French literature, including students interested in seventeenth-century tragedy.
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.
