Athalie

Athalie Synopsis

Excerpt from Athalie: Tragedie En Cinq Actes; With Grammatical and Explanatory Notes

M. Taine says Racine's little Joas could only exist in a piece composed for the Ladies' College of Saint. Cyr; the little child speaks like a prince's son, with noble and acquired phrases, as if repeating his cate chism.1 'but when it is considered that the high priest would certainly have early instructed his young protege in the precepts of the Mosaic Law and ritual, and forwarded his education with a view to his future exalted station, there is not anything in the replies to the questions addressed to him, or his observations arising out of the position in which he 15 placed, which may not be readily believed to proceed from a child so Circumstanced.

Let us now relate the events recorded in the Scriptures (2 Kings viii. - xi., and 2 Chron. Xxi. - xxiii.) upon which Racine built his celebrated tragedy of Athalie.

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