Four interpretations of Racine's 'Berenice'

After two actresses who interpreted Berenice, Francine Berge for Planchon w ho echoed the love of Louis XIV and Marie Mancini, and Lumila Mikael whom K arl-Michael Gruber saw as the eastern queen facing the Roman emperor, come the ideas of two other directors, Jacques Lassalle who criticizes the preju dices of the play - its transparence, renunciation, elegy and the absence o f History - and considers the protagonists as innocent monsters; Jacques Kr aemer for whom renunciation in this deathless tragedy is only a preparation to death.