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Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah by Jean Racine

Britannicus, Phaedra, Athaliah

Jean Racine

240 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

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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 (1...

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