Andromache / Britannicus / Berenice by Jean Racine

Andromache / Britannicus / Berenice

Jean Racine with John Cairncross

288 pages first pub 1667 (editions)

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The three works in this volume established Racine as a playwright who enjoyed high favour both with the public and at the court of Louis XIV and presented a growing challenge to the older writer Corneille.

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