Berenice and Bajazet by Jean Racine, Alan Hollinghurst (Translator)
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Overview: This volume brings together two translations by Alan Hollinghurst of Racine’s most strongly contrasted tragedies, “Berenice and Bajazet”. The critical event in “Berenice”, the death of Titus’ 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 and directs them all in an act of collective abnegation. Many tears are shed, but not a drop of blood. The effect is unconventional, and profound: the pained acceptance of the irreconcilable in human affairs, and the surrender, by each of the main characters, of the person they most love. “Bajazet” is Racine’s most violent drama; it ends, like “Phedre”, with a female character’s on stage suicide, here the culmination of a vividly described sequence of off stage murders.
Genre: Fiction, Literary Classics, Plays, Drama
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