by Jean Racine · LGF · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253037934
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«Iphigénie» is the five-act tragedy by Jean Racine, published by LGF in paperback (160 pages, in French).
Iphigénie recreates the Greek myth of Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. When the Greek fleet cannot set sail for Troy for lack of wind, the gods demand the sacrifice of the young woman. The play confronts its characters with duty, divine power and family ties.
The play premiered in 1674. This edition, published in 1986, includes a preface by Anne Delbée and notes by Jean Dubu.
For students of French and for anyone who wants to read Racine in the original.
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.
