Title : Bérénice - Jean Racine - book

Summary :

Although he loves Berenice, Titus renounces marrying her because Rome forbids this union of the emperor and a foreign queen. But when he entrusts her to Antiochus, king of Comagene, also in love with her, Berenice violently refuses to leave with him and, distraught, implores Titus who loves her more than ever. The subject of the play, created at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1670, is thus only the suffering of a romantic separation since the action consists for Titus in making himself understood, and for Berenice in refusing to understand. As Racine's preface tells us, "majestic sadness" thus constitutes "all the pleasure of tragedy". And the tragedy of Berenice , in fact, is that its outcome condemns the three heroes, tempted for a moment by death, to a solitude more painful than death itself: a tragedy entirely elegiac of pure passion and dominated melancholy.
Edition by Georges Forestier

• EAN : 9782253044994
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