Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah - Oxford World's Classics - Jean Racine - Books - Oxford University Press - 9780199555994 - April 23, 2009
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Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah - Oxford World's Classics

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Jean Racine (1639-99) remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. Britannicus (1669), the first play in this volume, takes its themes from Roman history: the setting is bloody and treacherous court of the Emperor Nero. Phaedra (1677) dramatizes the Greek myth of Phaedra's doomed love for her stepson Hippolytus. Athaliah (1691), Racine's last and perhaps finest play, draws on the Old Testament story of Athaliah, Queen of Judah and worshipper of Baal,who is threatened and finally forced to concede victory to Joash, a son of the house of David and survivor of Athaliah's massacres.

240 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 23, 2009
ISBN13 9780199555994
Publishers Oxford University Press
Pages 240
Dimensions 129 × 196 × 15 mm   ·   180 g
Editor Sisson, C. H.

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