1) Play by Jean Racine 2) Play set in ancient Rome
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Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (12 February AD 41 — 11 February AD 55) was the son of the Roman emperor Claudius and his third wife Valeria Messalina. He became the heir-designate of the empire at his birth, less than a month into his father`s reign. He was still a young boy at the time of his mother`s downfall and Claudius` marriage to......
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[play] Britannicus is a 5-act tragic play by the French dramatist Jean Racine. It was first performed on 13 December 1669 at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. Britannicus is the first play in which Racine depicted Roman history. The tale of moral choice takes as its subject Britannicus, the son of the Roman emperor Claudius, and heir to the...
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(from the article `Nero`) ...poisoning her second husband, Agrippina incestuously became the wife of her uncle, the emperor Claudius, and persuaded him to favour Nero for the ...
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(from the article `Racine, Jean`) With Britannicus (1669) Racine posed a direct challenge to Corneille`s specialty: tragedy with a Roman setting. Racine portrays the events leading up ...
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