Bérénice
Bérénice, reine de Palestine, et Titus, fils de l'empereur romain Vespasien, sont épris l'un de l'autre. Lorsque Vespasien meurt, plus rien ne s'oppose à l'union tant espérée du nouvel empereur et de sa maîtresse. Devant l'imminence de ce mariage, Antiochus, roi de Comagène, ami et soupirant malheureux de Bérénice, se prépare à un exil désespéré. Pourtant, devant l'hostilité des Romains à accepter une étrangère comme impératrice, Titus doit choisir entre la raison d'Etat et l'amour.
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Jean Racine
Jean-Baptiste Racine ( rass-EEN, US also rə-SEEN; French: ; 22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) 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.
Racine's plays displayed his mastery of the dodecasyllabic (12 syllable) French alexandrine. His writing is renowned for its elegance, purity, speed, and fury, and for what American poet Robert Lowell described as a "diamond-edge", and the "glory of its hard, electric rage". Racine's dramaturgy is marked by his psychological insight, the prevailing passion of his characters, and the nakedness of both plot and stage.
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