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Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jean Racine
Binding: Paperback, Reissue edition, 240 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Weight: 0.44 pound
Dimension: H: 0.87 x L: 7.64 x W: 5.04 inches
ISBN 10: 0199555990
ISBN 13: 9780199555994
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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.
Racine's tragedies portray characters wrestling with ambition, treachery, religion, and love. In this translation, specially commissioned for The World's Classics series, C.H. Sisson has captured admirably the lucidity of Racine's language, both analytic and passionate, and the rhythm of his four part Alexandrine, a combination that previous translators have consistently failed to achieve.

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