Berenice and Bajazet

by Jean Racine and Alan Hollinghurst

The critical event in Berenice , the death of Titus's father, the Emperor Vespasian, happens a week before the play opens. Thereafter Titus knows that his separation from Berenice is inevitable. The breaking off of a great love affair involves too the hopes of Antiochus, himself long in love with Berenice. The play pushes all three of its principals to the brink, not of revenge but of self-murder, before in her sublime last speech Berenice redeems...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571299083
• ISBN13: 9780571299089
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.9" x 6.4"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher