Lucr ce, de Fran ois Ponsard, est une trag die en cinq actes et en vers, repr sent e pour la premi re fois Paris en 1843. L'oeuvre revisite l'histoire romaine de Lucr ce, dont le suicide apr s avoir t outrag e par Sextus Tarquin conduit la chute de la monarchie et l' tablissement de la R publique romaine.
Ponsard, figure marquante du th tre fran ais du XIXe si cle, s'inspire de la tradition classique tout en explorant des th mes moraux et politiques pertinents pour son poque. Lucr ce est un exemple remarquable de la trag die fran aise, caract ris e par sa rigueur formelle et sa profondeur motionnelle.
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