Athaliah (Esprios Classics)

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Athalie (sometimes translated Athalia) is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of one of the greatest literary artists known and the ripest work of Racine’s genius. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to Oedipus Rex in beauty, with the true God added. August Wilhelm Schlegel thought Athalie to be animated by divine breath ; other critics have regarded the poetics of drama in the play to be superior to those of Aristotle.