- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (Jan 1968)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 2010023471
- ISBN-13: 978-2010023477
- ASIN: 0140441956
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 71,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The three works in this volume established Racine as a playwright who enjoyed high favour both with the public and at the court of Louis XIV and presented a growing challenge to the older writer Corneille.
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Writing in C17th France, Racine took classical stories and re-wrote them into modern plays refracting a view of his own France through the lens of classicism.
These are intense and dramatic pieces combining politics with love.
Andromache, based on Euripides, follows the after-story of Hector's wife after the Trojan war.
Berenice tells of the queen of Palestine's fatal love for Titus, the Roman emperor.
And Britannicus uncovers the lethal court politics under Nero as the son of Claudius is assassinated.
The original verse has been turned into blank verse so some of the texture of the French has been lost, but these are still eminently readable versions of Racine.
These are intense and dramatic pieces combining politics with love.
Andromache, based on Euripides, follows the after-story of Hector's wife after the Trojan war.
Berenice tells of the queen of Palestine's fatal love for Titus, the Roman emperor.
And Britannicus uncovers the lethal court politics under Nero as the son of Claudius is assassinated.
The original verse has been turned into blank verse so some of the texture of the French has been lost, but these are still eminently readable versions of Racine.
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