by Jean Racine · Hachette · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782010193804
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«Britannicus» is the tragedy by Jean Racine, published by Hachette in paperback (223 pages, in French).
The play is set in imperial Rome and shows the beginnings of Nero's reign, whose perversity is gradually revealed while Agrippina tries to hold on to her power and Britannicus is caught up in the courtly struggle. Racine pushes violence and ambition to the limit in this tragedy about the birth of a tyrant.
This 1993 edition belongs to the Classiques Hachette collection and is number 25, with the complete text of the work.
Aimed at secondary school students and readers of classical French theatre, with didactic annotations for studying 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.
