{"product_id":"berenice-jean-racine-9781836151753","title":"Berenice: Translated from Jean Racine's Bérénice by Rosie Hilal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBerenice is an academically rigorous, poetically sensitive and politically hard-hitting translation of Jean Racine's celebrated 17th century tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn adapted version of her text with movement was first staged in 2018 in a co-production between Theatre Forge and Exchange Theatre as part of Voila! Europe theatre festival under the title Becoming Berenice with original drum and bass music by Tomas Wolstenholme to sold-out audiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnusually retaining the original French structure of rhyming 12-beat couplets, or Alexandrines, this modern English version seeks to highlight the Western colonial expansion in the Middle-East against which the story plays out, and of which we are arguably reaping the ever more violent repercussions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis tale of one woman's emancipation in the face of star-crossed love is the first English translation of this European classic by a woman and a person of Middle-Eastern descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jean Racine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1836151756\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781836151753\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grosvenor House Publishing Limited\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.21d","brand":"Jean Racine","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46927910732031,"sku":"9781836151753","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e5f338b4-7098-45d2-bb2b-b06985dc3f62.jpg?v=1749373350","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/berenice-jean-racine-9781836151753","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}