Download or read book Britannicus ; Phaedra ; Athaliah written by Jean Racine and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Racine remains to this day the greatest of French poetic dramatists. This volume brings together three of his most important plays in an entirely new translation. C.H. Sisson captures the clarity, passion, and rhythm of Racine's language as he portrays characters wrestling with ambition, treachery, religion, and love.