Britannicus
« Sur les pas des tyrans veux-tu que je m'engage ? » Cette question, c'est celle de Néron à son conseiller malveillant Narcisse. Propulsé sur le trône de Rome par sa mère Agrippine, au détriment de Britannicus, héritier légitime de l'empereur Claude, Néron révèle bientôt sa profonde noirceur.Haine fratricide, complots, exercices de domination politique et psychologique : l'histoire romaine cristallise des enjeux de pouvoir qui transcendent les époques. En témoigne Britannicus de Racine. Et cette tragédie de nous séduire aujourd'hui encore, autant par les raffinements de sa forme classique que par les passions qui l'animent.
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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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