Timberlake Wertenbaker. and his profane blood spurts over the girl. Nero, astounded by what is before him, abandons the body to the crowd. He goes back in. All flee his fierce silence. No word escapes from his lips but 'Junia'.
Racine's political thriller, set in Rome at the beginning of a tyranny, lays bare the relationships at the heart of power, as a world slips into moral chaos. This new...
" Belle, sans ornements, dans le simple appareil D'une beauté qu'on vient d'arracher au sommeil.
Britannicus
Britannicus
Si Britannicus a de quoi décontenancer, tant au XVIIe siècle qu’aujourd’hui, c’est que la violence et la noirceur des personnages mènent le tragique à son paroxysme, et l’humain à ses dernières limites.
" L'idée de Narcisse, d'Agrippine et de Néron, l'idée si noire et si horrible qu'on se fait de leurs crimes, ne saurait s'effacer de la mémoire du spectateur ", écrit...
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In this volume of Racine's plays we find "Britannicus," the fifth of twelve plays by the author. "Britannicus" is the first work by the author to draw upon Roman History for its subject matter.
Britannicus